"A few pictures - Fife & Drum and Perry's." Topic

At long last I have got my hands on some Fife & Drum Miniatures :-) I have been hoping for a long time that the range would become available over here in the UK, and now they are!

I had just got started on a new project using Perry Minis, and then I heard of the F&D distribution deal …. brilliant timing!

Anyway, here are a few of the pictures so far, mostly Perry's and a few Fife & Drum British lights, they are superb. I'll be sticking with F&D for the future, but I have to say the Perry Plastics are great for the price.

New project skirmish level AWI.

The first of my F&D's – bases unfinished.

Perry command base – plastics. ( Blue somewhat less bright in reality).

Loyalists – perry plastics.

Perry and Fife & Drum size comparison – I'm perfectly happy with that.

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Cheers,
Lee.

Wow! Very nice painting. I, too think that both the Perry and WGF plstics are good matches for F&D.
You can build up big collections using the plastics supplemented by the F&D figures.

Wonderful work Lee…
They sure look the part! :)

I am fighting the urge to rekindle my Airfix AWI games from forty years ago and this is not helping, lol nice paint jobs.

Agree, Fife and Drum are the bee's knees no matter what scale you compare them to. Just really excellent figures. Pictures are great but when you actually hold the works of art in your hands, you really appreciate them more.

Thanks for the comments chaps :-) I should stress that the 'comparison' pic was only intended to illustrate general size. Perry's are great but something is very special about the Fife & Drum sculpts, that's for sure!

Apologies for posting the same pic twice above, should have been this one:

I'm aiming for a clean and bright finish for my figures as I'm regarding them more as 'playing pieces' for my intended Commands & Colors unofficial AWI variant, as discussed over on C&C.net forum. Some lively AWI scenarios have been published already there.

I'm not a uniform geek (nothing wrong with that though :-).. despite over 30 years of interest in the period, so please forgive any slight uniform errors, I'm aiming for generic AWI figures here really.

Here are some of my Perry Plastics painted before I heard the news about F&D!

You certainly can't knock them for plastic figures can you?

Cheers,

Lee.

How do you move all those individually-based figures during a large game, and still keep the game's tempo moving?

Do you use some sort of sabot or movement tray, holding multiple figures?

Your bases are very nice. Are they coins, metal washers, or plastic discs?

I had hesitated buying more figures to paint, as much of my 28mm AWI collection -- Dixon, Old Glory, Wargames Foundry, Front Rank, Perry Miniatures, Hinchliffe, etc.; has not gotten onto the table in years.

But those painted Fife & Drum and Perry plastic figures look terrific! I foresee some serious soul-searching in my immediate future.

As an old time AWI wargamer returning to the era, I have to say "nice job".

Very nice! And NO Betsy Ross flag!! Awesome!! lol!

Bob