Found some of my unbased Zulus. Many are missing shields - anyone know if the Zulu, or any African spear-armed natives, ever fought without shields? They may be in another box somewhere, but I still haven't got any plastic glue...!
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| Enough for an internal skirmish here. |
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| 48 Sikhs - a bit bigger than a TSATF company. Will probably count as a battalion. |
Had an extremely successful, but chaotic and tiring, skygazing program this week. I was going to have a paint-and-take, but my coworkers and boss said kids couldn't do it, and in the event it was too crowded to do more than some basic coloring and pasting anyway.
The Apollo astronauts are 3D-printed, approx 54mm, in silver. A rough drybrush of white, which one of my interns is learning below, makes them a dirty white as in photos from the lunar surface. During the actual program, which I hope to do with the teens at some point, all that's required is a gold faceplate, blue-grey gloves and boots, and blue or red stripes and hose-connectors. Which in theory should take minutes for even kids to paint (I like to tell them, "if you can write with a pencil you can paint with a brush."), but in practice will take half an hour or more. I'll hold them aside as an alternate activity for my Wednesday gaming group.
I think there are plenty of sub Saharan tribes who would skirmish without shields....and they could be used for a multitude of scenarios and eras too, from ancient right up to WWI and Pulp type games!
ReplyDeleteGood to know, thanks!
DeleteThe guys without shields can just stand behind the ones with. 😀
ReplyDeleteFair enough!
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