"Imagi-nations questions" Topic

I have gone to several of the sites and have a few questions? Which miniatures do most use? 28mm, 30mm, 15mm? Do you use anything besides Prussian, French, British, Austria or Russian to represent your armies? Which manufacturer is the most popular? What books inspired you? I have the Charles Grant and I remember Peter Young's.

Thanks,
Brian

I use 28s and mostly Crusader and Front Rank

I'm not sure "most" of us use the same anything. I've seen plenty of 20mm or 1/72, and a bunch of 25/28mm and 28/30mm. But there are also 6mm and 15mm out there.

Personally, I use 25/28mm, having RSM95, Old Glory, Crusader, Front Rank, Foundry, Eureka, and Hinchliffe in my collection. And I'm sure I'll add others!

The real answer, though, is to do what you want. That's kind of the point of the exercise, and also answers your other question. There are a LOT of ImagiNations whose uniform colors have nothing to do with historical uniforms. Of course, most of the figures are cast with specific nations' uniforms.

My collection does not yet contain a painted fictional unit. The one I planned is suffering in silence on the back of the painting table.

As to inspiration, yes Charge! and The War Game are big, but so are the articles in Battlegames and MWAN, Charles S. Grants' new books, and articles in plenty of other magazines. Plus I tend to feed off the other blogs, too!

Ed

I use 10mm and 15mm but find that most use 28mm and I am building a unit to bring to the seven years war convention but the guys on EvE have been really nice and will fight your nation through proxy no matter what scale.

I'm just getting started.

28mm Foundry

ost-pommern.blogspot.com

Ditto to what Ed Youngstrom said. I would add the Stadden 30mm figures and the Suren 30mm figures to the list for consideration. On the other hand, the Crusader range is very nice and with the Old Glory discount card, they are nicely priced.

Scale: 15s
Nations: French and Prussians (recently started British)
Figures: Most ranges on the market starting when Minifigs came in strips of five, returning to the period big boost OG15s but overall a very eclectic choice
Rules: Tried a number now settling on Minden Rose/Might & reason
Inspiration: Memory of being taught about 7YW and Frederick the Great in 1963 linked to finding Mollo's reference book in the 1970's and the arrival of the original Minifig 15mm range

sneakgun,

The others are correct. There is no "one true scale" for our Imagi-Nations. I would say that more "Emperor vs Elector" members use 25-30mm figures than any other scale, but we have members using everything from 2mm to 40mm that I know of . . . and there may well be some using 54mm.

It doesn't matter. Use the scale (and rules) that appeal to you. However a lot of the big "convention games" in the States mostly use 25-30mm figures.

As for uniforms, some use strict historical models; some use David Linienblatt's wonderful uniform templates to invent their own uniforms; and some (like myself) use a combination.

I am using Hanoverian uniforms for most of my Saxe-Bearstein army . . . but since Hanover's Dragoons wore the same coat color as their Heavy Horse, I decided to change them from white to "Buff" for my Imagi-Nation's army.

Again, there isn't a "right" or "Wrong" way to do it. Whatever you like is up to you.

My personal choice for figures is RSM95 25mm . . . because I like the sculpting and the price. But others have their own favorites . . . it is up to what YOU like . . . after all, you are the monarch of your Imagi-Nation and you can dictate how your army is to be equipped.

-- Jeff (Founder of "Emperor vs Elector" group blog).

Among the 100some Lace Wars Imagi-Nations posted on the web, ('Fict' links ttp://mcristobylacew-abdul666.blogspot.com/ )as for scale anything between 2mm link and 54mm link has its user(s), but the great majority fields 25mm (often plastics, Revell and the like link or 30mm.

For a pharaonic project of a continental-scale campaign with *all* regiments individually represented link , an enterprising fellow used '6mm' homemade regiments link
built from… matchsticks.
A few sculpt and mould their own minis, either to increase diversity link or to own troop types unavailable commercially: strackenz.blogspot.com

Of course the common practice is to use 'historical' commercial minis and to paint them either as their historical prototypes, or in uniforms of your own design -you can nonetheless take part in a 'large' historical wargame, pretending they are badly known 'Kreis' contingents : who can claim to know all of them? Besides, Imagi-Nations allow a (reasonable) use of minis intended for other locations / times as 'auxiliaries' (Streltzii, Late Renaissance Polish infantry with berdrish ax, Cossaks, Mameluks, Bashi-Bouzouks and aother Turkish types…).

As for inspiration, 'Charge!' and 'The War Game' but also the Wars of Faltenian Succesion of Henry Hyde of Battlegame fame. Many wargamers speak of their 'Charge!' project, yet 'The War Game' is far more inspirational. But the examples in the later are less propitious to be reproduced as an individual project than the 'Bridge' and even Sittanbag in 'Charge!'

I'm using Eureka's SYW bears.

My imagi-nation is a bit more imagi than most…

My wife's Army of Hessen Beckstein is 15mm.

Brian please keep us informed – and don't hesitate to take the blogging plunge – even a dinosaur from the age of mechanical typewriter can manage it.

KatieL: Der Alte Fritz posted pics of his SYW Teddybears altefritz.blogspot.com Could we discover yours?

RittervonBek: any chance of pics?
Cheers,
Jean-Louis

That reminds me Jean-Louis, I have to paint some bear grenadiers, artillery and cavalry for my daughter for a Christmas present. I'd best get cracking and go to it.

Jim,

Yes, you'd better "get cracking", this is December 22nd, Christmas is . . . ohmigosh it's the 25th . . . that leaves . . . uh, well not much in terms of "teddy bear time".

-- Jeff

I'm using RSM 95's and Spencer Smiths, plenty of character, plenty of options, everything I need, and the RSM's are very reasonably priced.

Donald~

I have not started an imagination yet. Thinking about it.

I use 25/28mm, Old Glory, Crusader, Front Rank, Foundry, Eureka, Elite, Musketeer Miniatures, Minden, Parkfield and Hinchliffe in my collection.
Plan some RSM95 in the future also.

I'm realy bouncing around with my army/armies. Austrians; Swedes: Saxons; French in North America, India and Europe plus native troops to go with them.

I've picked up some of Duffy's books, plus several on French and Indian War. I pick a lot of books that people on TMP talk about/suggest.

Good Luck

The Army of the Grand Duchy of Nordmark are all 15mm Old Glory (in the 1700's) and 15mm AB figures (in the 1800's) – as it happens the Nordmark Scots Guards battalions have just this very day arrived in a box from Fernando in Sri Lanka.

Being a close ally of the imagi-nation of Lichtengrein (a relationship dating from the 1st Crusade) I can vouch for their troops all being 15mm Old Glory as well and also just fresh off the plane from Sri Lanka.

Playing with having a "German/Prussian" principality in North Idaho, they discovered the gold and silver a hundred years early. Of Course, the British and French want to take it away from them and some colonials want to intervene. I have French and Indian Old Glory figures.

If I were to send out diplomats they would be one of the nieces of the Grand duchess:

link
Countess Marianna Chevaux

Thanks for your comments, enthuisiasm and advice!

A few other sweet possibilities:
TMP link

Sneakgun, looking forward for discovering your blog and country!

Sneakgun, "a 'German/Prussian' principality in North Idaho"?
Then in time, and provided you agree, of course, I'll have ( with pleasure! ) to update my summarized overview of 'alternate' North America by Lace Wars times: link

( Yes, I'm a leech, exploiting 'true' Imagi-Nation creators' work – though I prefer to see myself as an archivist… )

Frankss:"I have not started an imagination yet. Thinking about it."
Please keep us informed!

I've put some pictures of my bears up at;

link

So far I've done two line regiments, one elite and one skirmishers per side along with one light and one heavy cavalry and a gun each.

I've got two more line, one elite, two skirmishers, two guns and more cavalry on the painting table.

And I'm doing some conversions to get pioneers.

KatieL: thanks for posting the Teddy Bear pictures. Did you do conversions to get Tarleton helmets on the cavalry and Croat style hats on the skirmishers? Or are those newer Eureka products?

I can't get any of your thumbnails to expand, Katie, either by clicking the photo or clicking the blue, "link style" photo titles.

G'day, Brian.

I'll be going with 18mm Eureka figures, as they will match my existing SYW armies. With the exception of some militia units and the pioneers link Eureka already make the figures I'll need. Painted up a sample of the 1st Foot today (clothing only) to see how the uniforms look in miniature and I'm pleased that the uniform seems to work.

Cheers.

Dal.

@ sneakgun: how is Schwartzwaldeland faring by now? No pic of Countess Marianna Chevaux as one of your ambassadrices?