"Flats for Wargaming" Topic

I have updated my blog with my first pictures of some FPW figures bought on German eBay which I have quickly re painted.

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I plan to use these in units of 3 bases with 36 figures per unit. They will look impressive.

Many thanks

Mark

They do paint up rather nicely!

Thanks for posting this.
They do look great at the angles like you mentioned.
Looking forward to seeing your battles with them.
Joe

Wow! Those are really really nice! Resists urge to rush out and buy loads of FPW flats…

My first miniature wargaming was with Okel's ancients flats. Used rules in Grant's (??) book which had pictures of a game with ancient flats. Ah, the memories.

Hi Allen57

The book was Doanld Featherstone's – the War Game

See this link for more info on Tony Bath who provided the figures used.

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Mark

Mark,

Glad you found this site, but come on back to the BFFS Forum whenever you like.

Back at HISTORICON 3008 or thereabouts I was sipping diet coke in the Lancaster Host bar with some wargame buddies when a German gamer commented in unaccented English "In Germany we sometimes wargame with flats."

I had to laugh. Back in the 1980s, having been distracted by Joe Morechauser's lengthy list of Aloys Ochels offerings in his 1962 book I bought long tons of 30mm flats, and used them for Napoleonics, Seven Years War, Franco Prussian War, and eventually the Thirty Years War. I'm bringing the latter back.

A group of French collectors launched a 20mm series sculpted by Pepin which included a number of Turkenkrieg offerings. Some of them can be seen in the coverage of HISTORICON 2010 from a game I ran Saturday morning in the HAWKS room (where they had been running 40mm half rounds.)

The pictues are in the "Gallery" Conventions section of my web site (http://www.ebhpc.com ) Most of the same figures were used in Turkenkrieg Game during a break at Wally's Basement. Jay Stone, a perennial WRG Renaissance sharp beat me in close run thing.

Pat Condray

That should of course have been HISTORICON 3008 and the web site:

ebhpc.com

Pat,

I tried to view your Turkenkrieg game pictures on three different computers and wasn't able to load past Page 2 of the.pdf file. Any other pictures of them available ? I'd like to see them. I have a few 20mm pikemen in floppy hats purchased on eBay and repainted, never could find enough to make a unit of though. I did acquire a modest number of 20mm WSS castings, from C. Terana of Paris.

Of course, 30mm is a lot easier to come by. I've got some Austrians (but no Ottomans).

Regards,
Steve

ooooh – I like them a lot :-)

Corporal Trim- those look fantastic! I particularly like the drummer.

If anyone is interested, I will be running several games using my Wooden "flats" at Gencon. Jump in a play a round or two.

Cheers
Thomas
skullandcrown.blogspot.com

Steve / Trim,

Do you know the item numbers of the Austrian 1683 musketeers with plug bayonets that you painted?

Kieler Zinnfiguren "1700" period figures include Pike and Shot, plug bayonet, and socket bayonet musketeer castings, and the catalog descriptions are not much help determining which is which.

Paul Nicola

Hi, Paul.

Thee figures did not come in the original box and it's difficult to see the item #'s through the paint. Let me see what I can figure out and I'll e-mail you off line.

Regards,
Steve

Steve,

Were you able to clearly see any of the numbers in spite of the paint? (It is difficult, I know.) If you can access the (In)Compleat Kieler via the BFFS members only website you might be able to ID the set the figures came from. If you can't access send me the numbers and I can do the ID.

Asterix (= Scott of the BFFS Forum)

Scott, I'm glad you reminded me about this. I actually found another set on eBay (unpainted), I owe Paul the ID #'s.

Steve