ACW for Sharp Practice - my 2023 project

[jon_1066]

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I'm thinking something simpler, using numbers most likely, just trying to find the way to help them blend in best.

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Lovely painting by the way.

My, admittedly limited, experience with Sharpe practice is that the leaders are usually remembered with the number only really being required for confirmation.  Obvious numbers would detract from the spectacle - there already enough shock markers littering up the place.  If you make your own tokens then could you do away with numbers entirely?  So have tokens in the bag with a picture of the base?  Eg abandoned drum, rifles, barrels, livestock, small shrub, flower bed, cabbage patch, camp bed, aide de camp, horse holder, etc, etc.

Other alternative is just write them on the underside of the base.

[PeteW]

...experience with Sharpe practice is that the leaders are usually remembered with the number only really being required for confirmation....

Plan at the moment is to have level 3 leaders or higher mounted on horse back, level 2 to be infantry officers on foot, and level one to be NCOs, so i just need a way to differentiate when there is more than one type in play. I'm favouring the method used by Tactical Painter at the moment with numbered sabots - but we will see.

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[Elk101]

Nicely done and those drums! 

We used to give all our Sharp Practice 2 officers Carry On film character names and found that we never forgot who was who! Sid James characters were generally top tier command.

[CapnJim]

Loving your figures and units.  Well done again!

[PeteW]

cheers guys . Good progress made with 39 figures completed in the last month - a first for me I think.



Drummer is now complete with his scratch built drum, and 4 core groups.









I have 6 skirmishers and 2 NCO's to construct and paint, but have otherwise completed all the figures I initially ordered. I need one more 8 figure group and a level 3 leader to be up to strength and then to start putting together the remaining support units I'm likely to want.

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[CapnJim]

I like the progress you've made.  Well done!

[PeteW]

Cpl's Wavely Waverley, and Manley Pointer ready for action





Both to be level one leaders.

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[Battle Brush Sigur]

Oh, I've seen these two over on Facebook. Very cool.