"My unpainted plastic miniatures" Topic

Hi,
I have a lot of WWII 1:72 plastic miniatures.
I like them UNPAINTED and I'd like to use them for wargames.

Well, what ruleset do you suggest?

More questions: playing with unpainted figures, how do you base them and what kind of terrains do you use?

Thanks a lot

Roby

Try 'Operation Warboard' by Gavin Lyall for WWII rules.

You don't need to base the figures, he shows you how to make simple terrain; and best of all, he uses his plastic figures unpainted (check out the photographs).

That's the way I started too Billy!

usually painted the vehicles though, if only green for allies v grey for germans.

Of course choose whatever rules you like, they won't spontaneously combust if you use unpainted figures. Though this sort of game does lend itself to 'old-school' I think.

Basing – if figures keep falling over, stick individual bases on them so that they don't fall over. (classically white card with flock ineffectually stuck down temporarily with PVA glue, though plastic of the same colour as the figures, or perhaps a transparent plastic base would be cool)

Terrain – 2 main options – carpet tile or ceiling tile hills over a flat board, or books etc with a green-ish cloth over them. Lichen suffices for most vegetation, though the adventurous might essay rubberized horse-hair or those mysteriously symmetrical bought trees. Buildings ideally include Airfix's thatched cottage, church, re-purposed railway station, la Haye Sainte and a coastal artillery emplacement, though anything scratch built out of card or borrowed from model railways works well.

I used to use the Lionel Tarr rules with my (back then) unpainted or partially painted WWII 1/72nds
PDF link
or you could look through this lot of free rule sets..
link

I based them on bit of cardboard painted green, Terrain as Timbo describes.

A friend and I started with unpainted Airfix Napoleonics waay back when.

Play and enjoy. I am almost 50, and bro and I tried out a set of rules using unpainted figures. They fought and died juat as well as their painted cousins

At first I read "Robpask" as "Rospak" and thought you were talking about old Ancients figures ……

What BillyFish said. That was my first set and it works very well. My copy is long gone, alas.

Here you go og link