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Title: "It's your Troop now, Mr. Colehill."
Post by: Harry Faversham on April 06, 2024, 10:46:23 AM: 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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Post by: Tom Dulski on April 06, 2024, 11:57:55 AM: Can't wait to see the pics. It's one of my favorite periods.
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Post by: Harry Faversham on April 06, 2024, 01:35:05 PM: Here's young Lootenant Colehill's C Troop, on patrol from Fort Starke...

:)
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Post by: Khusru2 on April 06, 2024, 01:37:29 PM: "Wot did you do in Tombstone Grandad?"

I was with Doc, at the OK corral
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Post by: Harry Faversham on April 06, 2024, 01:42:09 PM: Next up is The Great Lame Beaver's right man, Chief Smelly Moccasin and his War Party of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers...

:o
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Post by: Harry Faversham on April 06, 2024, 01:43:37 PM: Quote from: Khusru2 on April 06, 2024, 01:37:29 PM
"Wot did you do in Tombstone Grandad?"

I was with Doc, at the OK corral

Love that one!!!

:-*
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Post by: OB on April 06, 2024, 02:30:20 PM: Very nice Harry.
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Post by: Harry Faversham on April 06, 2024, 04:48:26 PM: Cheers matey, that means a lot coming from you.
;)
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Post by: armchairgeneral on April 06, 2024, 06:20:32 PM: Very nice forces so far :)
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Post by: FifteensAway on April 07, 2024, 12:44:06 AM: 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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Post by: Harry Faversham on April 07, 2024, 04:58:46 AM: Cheers, AAR coming up soon!
:o
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Post by: CapnJim on April 09, 2024, 09:18:34 PM: They all look great. Especially them long-knife horsey fellers! :)
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Post by: has.been on April 14, 2024, 09:13:47 PM: Looking good Harry.
I ain't forgot abart de Indian Village stuff, honest. :D
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Post by: Harry Faversham on April 15, 2024, 11:41:39 AM: 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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Post by: CapnJim on April 18, 2024, 05:51:04 PM: Yeah, Son of the Morning Star is a bright bulb on an otherwise dim string...
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Post by: Oldgamer on April 18, 2024, 08:27:19 PM: Fort Starke, is it named after the Lieutenant in the Company I book series?
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Post by: Harry Faversham on April 19, 2024, 08:45:33 AM: Depends when the books came out, the film was made in 1949.

:)
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Post by: rumacara on April 20, 2024, 01:30:51 PM: Nice collection. :-*
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Post by: Lord Raglan on April 29, 2024, 09:10:54 PM: I'm watching with interest Steve :P
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Post by: Harry Faversham on April 30, 2024, 04:57:48 AM: Quote from: Lord Raglan on April 29, 2024, 09:10:54 PM
I'm watching with interest Steve :P

You'll soon here a distant trumpet!

::)
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Post by: FifteensAway on April 30, 2024, 05:20:54 AM: 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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Post by: Harry Faversham on May 01, 2024, 04:10:43 PM: "I got's me a skirmish line!"

:)
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Post by: nozza_uk on May 01, 2024, 05:17:01 PM: Lovely painting :-*
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Post by: Harry Faversham on May 02, 2024, 11:24:31 AM: They came ready painted from Colonel Bill's, I just tickled 'em up, re-based and added the 7th Guidon.
:)
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Post by: Tom Dulski on May 02, 2024, 11:53:29 AM: The base's look great.
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Post by: rumacara on May 02, 2024, 12:45:26 PM: They look nice. :-*
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Post by: Harry Faversham on May 02, 2024, 04:13:28 PM: Thanks chaps, just finished the main man...
The Great Lame Beaver, War Chief of the Cheyenne!
:o
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Post by: Harry Faversham on May 03, 2024, 09:29:41 AM: 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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Post by: CapnJim on May 03, 2024, 04:00:49 PM: Well, that's cool!
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Post by: Harry Faversham on May 03, 2024, 05:08:29 PM: When we give it a whirl, it'll make a novel AAR!
:D
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Post by: 2010sunburst on May 03, 2024, 06:32:13 PM: 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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Post by: Harry Faversham on May 03, 2024, 08:41:56 PM: Playing with Cowboys and Indians is NEVER pointless!!!
>:(
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Post by: Lord Raglan on May 03, 2024, 09:07:05 PM: Quote from: Harry Faversham on May 03, 2024, 08:41:56 PM
Playing with Cowboys and Indians is NEVER pointless!!!
>:(

Well said mate 👍🏻
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Post by: has.been on May 04, 2024, 08:05:07 AM: Quote
[Playing with Cowboys and Indians is NEVER pointless!!!
Quote

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
Title: Re: "It's your Troop now, Mr. Colehill."
Post by: Harry Faversham on May 04, 2024, 09:45:45 AM: Campaign is great, used it many time for a... campaign!
Transferring the battles/action to the tabletop.

:-*
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Post by: armchairgeneral on May 04, 2024, 10:35:39 AM: Quote from: Harry Faversham on May 03, 2024, 09:29:41 AM
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!

:?

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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Post by: CapnJim on May 05, 2024, 05:20:19 PM: 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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Post by: Lord Raglan on May 06, 2024, 07:13:41 PM: Quote from: CapnJim on May 05, 2024, 05:20:19 PM
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 🇺🇸
Title: Re: "It's your Troop now, Mr. Colehill."
Post by: CapnJim on May 06, 2024, 11:51:20 PM: Quote from: Lord Raglan on May 06, 2024, 07:13:41 PM
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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Post by: Jeffers on May 14, 2024, 08:51:56 AM: Surely Lame Beaver was Arapaho? By way of the Lebanon… ;)
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Post by: Harry Faversham on May 14, 2024, 11:08:04 AM: Quote from: Jeffers on May 14, 2024, 08:51:56 AM
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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Post by: 2010sunburst on May 14, 2024, 01:33:14 PM: 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.