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Planning My Crimean Project
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2024
- In this video I talk through the planning phase of my 28mm Crimean War project. I discuss my initial inspiration, discuss what my initial goals are, and then do a short survey of the options in 28mm.
Btw hi Ralph. Love your videos as well🤗🤗
We have had a similar journey on our project but chewing the opposite end of the stick. I have been fascinated with the (I’ll call it) wars of political change. Age of Rifles! Changes in Germany, Austria, France, Italy and the UK etc. even the US caught up into the mid century crisis.
I have armies of all of the wars starting with 1860s. Austria France conflict, Italian Civil War, Schleswig Holstein conflict, Austria german War, boxer Rebellion, zulu wars, etc….. what was missing was the Crimean War and Russo Turkish Wars. I had lots of Russians from an unwanted project a friend had done. Crimean. He just gave them to me 400….
I had British figures from another friend that looked strange to me. They were he said a late British Napoleonic army 😂 I had 350 Turks and Egyptians from my friend in Chicago with fez. He didn’t want them. Forgotten box in the attic thing. Then a retired police friend from Detroit asked me if I would buy his Crimean war army 400 figures to help him clean things out. .25 cents a piece. I did more out of kindness.
All this went into the attic. 😂😂
Until my friend Jeff said. I have a 15mm somewhat finished painted Crimean war army you
need. I’m building a pool and need cash 😂😂
I did. Turned out all of theses unwanted discarded figures all came from the same company and were all Crimean.
My new project was born.
I had French already but could add what I appropriated through arm twisting. I will start cleaning, organizing and buffing all of these into a cohesive army as soon as I return back from Europe. I’ll send an update.
Thanks for the video. Loved it and was really fun to watch while having my coffee and a nice treat my lady made. 🤗
I look forward to seeing your armies on parade. I too am fascinated by the post-Napoleonic 19th Century. So much change, technologically, and also a lack of change in terms of doctrine. The political situation in Europe is volatile too, which makes for an interesting setting.
That is behaving normally now - did you discover what had happened or just delete and reload it?
I just deleted and reloaded the video. Took several hours on my slow connection.
I enjoyed the holiday snaps by the way. Also, have you painted all the Mughal stuff that you have now, or is that still ongoing? And who is the opponent for the Mughals?
What rules did you decide you wanted to use for your Crimean war project?
I have not yet. I presently have 3 contenders:
1. Black Powder
2. Principles of War
3. A modded ACW game currently in development by a friend of mine.
How about you?
I have decided to use black powder since that’s what I have used now for most of my hyphenated war armies. I have taken some of the fire and fury and war points in the booklet and applied that to the black powder rules which I think look possible and interesting. I think using Civil War rules might be difficult just due to the cavalry and the mindset and how European armies fought versus American armies entirely different philosophy. But I think that if that could work. I’ve decided to start on my Russian armies first just because I think everybody starts with the Brit so I’m going the opposite direction.. It seems that there’s so much conflict in what Russians look like gray brown pickle hem or field cap. There’s lots of different varieties out there which I suppose opens things up for a modeling. But thank you very much for writing me. I’m watching your project with intensity.
Sounds like a plan getting the Russians done. I started 8 of them the other day and have opted for Khakis and Stone Grey for the initial batch. Forage caps dark green.
In terms of rules, I should clarify. My friend's in-development ACW rules have a following in Italy. That playtesting group has modded the rules for the Risorgamento and the Franco-Prussian War, in different ways. So when I say I will use those rules, I mean mod them for the Crimea, and use the base engine, which I like.
That sounds very interesting as I really like the era. I have many sets of rules, kinda like Ralph but not to the extent and some focusing on the era. Franco Prussian for example but somehow they always want you to rebase and frankly I don’t wanna 🥴 I’ll be interested in your video upcoming reflecting your progress. I started re-imagining and bringing these figures back to life. I’m. A glutton for punishment. I love I guess to restore things and make them better.