"Heliograph Team" Topic
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Conrad Kinch | 03 Jun 2015 3:07 a.m. PST |
I've been mucking about with Colonials recently, mainly because I've a real yen to play more The Sword and the Flame and because they don't require a huge investment of time and painting energy. I painted up a heliograph team because three figures don't take very long and it's nice to finish something in an evening. I've painted these fellows as members of the 117th Royal Mallows, so faced in green. I'm in two minds looking at them now, I am wondering if I should have added some white lace to the cuffs. I've certainly made a hash of the equipment, as I believe the holsters should be brown. I just liked the "Zulu" style bright white on red. If you'd like you can see some pictures here. link |
Winston Smith | 03 Jun 2015 5:09 a.m. PST |
I have a simple rule for heliographs on TSATF. Assume that their are two columns, separated by mountains. Both have heliographs. Flip cards as normal. Add a joker to the deck. On a drawn joker the sun goes behind the clouds. That means that the column with C in C operates on hearts and the other on diamonds. When the joker comes up again, the sun comes out. This only on the side determination flip, not on wound allocation. Since I have both a Frontier and a Hinchliffe team, I just invented a use for them. |
Gone Fishing | 03 Jun 2015 8:25 a.m. PST |
Very well done! You may want to recite Kipling's "A Code of Morals" whilst it's in service (just to set the mood): link Surely there's a scenario there. |
TheBeast | 03 Jun 2015 9:26 a.m. PST |
Surely there's a scenario there. Especially if the messages are in double entendre. ;->= That WAS an eye-opener; I'd never seen, so never realized it was so important that Rudyard, the ole bean, had immortalized. Or, immoralized… As for the fellows, most handsome, and as I've entered from the VSF side, quite proper as we rationalize ANY colouring as 'variations of the period.' Not sure about the bright pink sporrans, though. What? But I'm SURE I saw them! Now that you mention it, I'm not seeing kilts, but… Doug |
Mad Guru | 03 Jun 2015 4:55 p.m. PST |
Wow, excellent job on your heliograph team, Conrad, well done! And Daryl… well, I've been a reader and re-reader of Kipling for close to 40 years, ever since I was a boy, and I've never read that ditty before, so you have my sincere thanks for posting it! |
J Womack 94 | 03 Jun 2015 8:52 p.m. PST |
Nicely done. I need to paint up a team myself. |
Gone Fishing | 04 Jun 2015 4:55 a.m. PST |
You're quite welcome, Guru! Kipling wrote so much good stuff it's easy to have some items slip through the cracks. And "CoM" is a fun one. |
tuscaloosa | 10 Jun 2015 7:08 p.m. PST |
Neat! Did heliograph use Morse Code or a unique code? |
TheBeast | 12 Jun 2015 5:49 a.m. PST |
Wiki sez 'generally using Morse code' Which, I thought was invented for the telegraph, which I thought was preceded by the heliograph… Get a tarp. Doug |
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