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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: jp1885 on 24 October 2013, 01:22:24 PM

Title: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: jp1885 on 24 October 2013, 01:22:24 PM
(http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/jp1885_photos/Huntsmen5_zps08bf650b.jpg)

I say, what larks! It appears that some of the keen young chaps from the country set think it a wizard wheeze to purloin their fathers' old cavalry gear, purchase some firearms and take to the field in their hunting pinks!

And thus the Herefordshire Hunt Hussars is born - ready to flush out any wrong doers and bad sorts and run them down!

(http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/jp1885_photos/Huntsmen4_zpsabbedab4.jpg)

The last dregs of my birthday money went towards a box of Perry Miniatures plastic ACW cavalry. I've changed their kepis into riding helmets with a little Greenstuff and rather haphazardly added some snippets of metallic sticky tape for coat tails.

(http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/jp1885_photos/IMG_9187_zpsf522b6bc.jpg)
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: joroas on 24 October 2013, 01:24:55 PM
What a great idea!  :o
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: von Lucky on 24 October 2013, 01:28:15 PM
Cute idea well executed. No hunting dogs?
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: jp1885 on 24 October 2013, 01:30:27 PM
Not yet - does anyone do beagles in 28mm?
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: B.E.A.R on 24 October 2013, 01:40:01 PM
As always JP spot on! I might have some of the old Mega Miniatures fox hounds, if they will work?
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: fastolfrus on 24 October 2013, 01:42:54 PM
Looking good, but don't forget only staff & select wear pinks, so you'll need members in blue. Also for 1930s you might have quite a few top hats too.
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: jp1885 on 24 October 2013, 01:53:12 PM
Looking good, but don't forget only staff & select wear pinks, so you'll need members in blue. Also for 1930s you might have quite a few top hats too.
Now I can manage riding hats, but sculpting top hats is beyond me! :D I take your point, but couldn't resist a unit all in red  ;)

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As always JP spot on! I might have some of the old Mega Miniatures fox hounds, if they will work?
Yeah, I think they might do the trick...
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: fastolfrus on 24 October 2013, 07:09:08 PM
Now I can manage riding hats, but sculpting top hats is beyond me! :D I take your point, but couldn't resist a unit all in red  ;)

How big is the unit?
Would any of the ACW slouch hats convert to toppers?
Brims might be a bit wide, but careful trimming might do it.
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: jp1885 on 24 October 2013, 07:33:35 PM
I've done them as a unit of 5 - the size of cavalry specified in the 'went the day well' rules, and, frankly enough fiddling for me!  :)
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: Hammers on 24 October 2013, 07:57:05 PM
Yes, MegaMinis made a set of seven beagles and a foxs.

I painted this:

(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/DNKCM/images/Dowager_Duchess_with_Castor_and_Pollux.JPG)
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: jp1885 on 24 October 2013, 07:59:26 PM
Nice paintjob! I'll keep an eye out for some here in Blighty.
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: Hammers on 24 October 2013, 08:02:26 PM
I forgot to say: *love* the hussars. I should post my Col Marbles conversion on a pony, in pink.
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: jp1885 on 25 October 2013, 08:24:36 AM
I forgot to say: *love* the hussars. I should post my Col Marbles conversion on a pony, in pink.
Cheers!
Title: Re: Tally-ho! Foxhunters for VBCW
Post by: SaxonHalfling on 26 October 2013, 05:58:27 PM
 :) tally ho