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Here's the start of my 28mm 'Pony Wars' project. It's a tad bittersweet, as I'm dedicating it to my two old Companyeros, the Dynamic Dunderheads. I wargamed with them for over forty years, Cavalry and Indians was one of our most favourite periods, From Airfix, Atlantic, Britains Deetails and right through to some of these lads mustering now. Eagle eyed Scouts will spot an Airfix Cavalry fort and wrong sized Wigwams. No apologies for this, they're there because of their sentimental value, always a big thing in a John Ford Cavalry flim!
Piccys to follow.
(https://scottross79.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/she-wore-a-yellow-ribbon-wayne.jpg)
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Can't wait to see the pics. It's one of my favorite periods.
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Here's young Lootenant Colehill's C Troop, on patrol from Fort Starke...
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"Wot did you do in Tombstone Grandad?"
I was with Doc, at the OK corral
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Next up is The Great Lame Beaver's right man, Chief Smelly Moccasin and his War Party of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers...
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"Wot did you do in Tombstone Grandad?"
I was with Doc, at the OK corral
Love that one!!!
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Very nice Harry.
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Cheers matey, that means a lot coming from you.
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Very nice forces so far :)
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Well, that is a nice start on getting back in my good graces. But where is the action? There must be action reports. Minor harrumph. ;)
But, yes, nice work.
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Cheers, AAR coming up soon!
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They all look great. Especially them long-knife horsey fellers! :)
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Looking good Harry.
I ain't forgot abart de Indian Village stuff, honest. :D
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Cheers has.been.
Meanwhile back on the Greasy grass. As part of mi' inspiration I've been ODing on Cavalry and Indian flims. Discounting 'Son of the Morning Star'. General Custer films are lame. Both 'Custer of the West' and 'They Died With Their Boots On' are most entertaining, but a tad daft. 'Little Big Man' is great, love the way he murders Custer! Funnily the 'Glory Guys' gives a fairly good rendering of the battle. The skirmishing Cavalry bit is really well done...
got to get me a skirmish line!
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Yeah, Son of the Morning Star is a bright bulb on an otherwise dim string...
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Fort Starke, is it named after the Lieutenant in the Company I book series?
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Depends when the books came out, the film was made in 1949.
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Nice collection. :-*
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I'm watching with interest Steve :P
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I'm watching with interest Steve :P
You'll soon here a distant trumpet!
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I hope when I return to LAF in a few weeks there will be at least one and perhaps more action reports!
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"I got's me a skirmish line!"
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Lovely painting :-*
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They came ready painted from Colonel Bill's, I just tickled 'em up, re-based and added the 7th Guidon.
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The base's look great.
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They look nice. :-*
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Thanks chaps, just finished the main man...
The Great Lame Beaver, War Chief of the Cheyenne!
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Custer's Last Stand, but not as you know it.
When I got this game, Crimbo '64, it took me and our kid till Easter to master the rools!
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Well, that's cool!
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When we give it a whirl, it'll make a novel AAR!
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Now that’s an old one……never enjoyed it much to be honest. I finally sold my copy during the covid lockdown :o. It had been in various lofts for a good fifty five years…..sold my original copy of Escape from Colditz at the same time. I had a good collection of board games as a kid. Pointless really, I was an only child :D
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Playing with Cowboys and Indians is NEVER pointless!!!
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Playing with Cowboys and Indians is NEVER pointless!!!
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Well said mate 👍🏻
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[Playing with Cowboys and Indians is NEVER pointless!!!
Brave to say that Harry. lol
I too still have my Battle of the Little Big Horn, & Escape from Colditz, & Campaign, & Diplomacy, & Decline & Fall, & Sea-Strike, &&&&&& :D
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Campaign is great, used it many time for a... campaign!
Transferring the battles/action to the tabletop.
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Custer's Last Stand, but not as you know it.
When I got this game, Crimbo '64, it took me and our kid till Easter to master the rools!
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We used to play this game as kids in the seventies. The figures were better painted as I recall so maybe it was a later version.
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On a semi-related note, my wife and I are taking a vacation out to the Dakotas next week. A stop at Fort Abraham Lincoln (from where Lt. Col. Custer and the 7th Cavalry departed on their way to infamy...) is on the agenda.
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On a semi-related note, my wife and I are taking a vacation out to the Dakotas next week. A stop at Fort Abraham Lincoln (from where Lt. Col. Custer and the 7th Cavalry departed on their way to infamy...) is on the agenda.
I’m trying to talk my mate into a motorcycle tour of the States 🇺🇸
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I’m trying to talk my mate into a motorcycle tour of the States
Cool. Ours a BIG country, though. You'll want to do some careful planning, but there are military history sites (battlefields, forts, museums, etc.) all over the place...
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Surely Lame Beaver was Arapaho? By way of the Lebanon… ;)
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Surely Lame Beaver was Arapaho? By way of the Lebanon… ;)
Himself will take a very dim view of that dreadful slander. Sleep with one eye open. One dawn you'll wake up to a bronzed, and warpainted savage, who's called for breakfast!
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Nice to see a referral to campaign. That was another one I sold in Lockdown…….anyone come across Tri Tactics? That was good fun as well.