tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34198610010225752792024-03-18T21:05:57.206-07:00Knuckleduster Miniatures JournalNews, photos, and articles from Knuckleduster Miniatures. Topics addressed include collecting, sculpting, painting, and wargaming with Knuckleduster's 28mm and 40mm figures, plus articles about history, modeling, and gaming in general.Forrest Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011241618490213564noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419861001022575279.post-63334515469134190432017-03-14T19:51:00.000-07:002017-03-14T20:13:55.836-07:00GUNFIGHTER'S BALL BUILDINGS; A TEASER<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="clasp" data-offset-key="ao7o4-0-0" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a really simple one from the new line of Gunfighter's Ball buildings (but it's the one I happened to have assembled); it's pretty bare-bones basic because it's going in the new Desperado Deluxe Box Set (a no-frills introductory set). It has no added features like hitching rails, a porch roof, or scrollwork on the crown of the fascade as some others will have. We're even designing buildings that will come standard with cast furniture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was designed by a team that includes Lee Beheler, the original designer of the TCL line of buildings, so you will see a certain similarity in style that makes them look good on the table together, even though the new ones are slightly larger. And because Lee designed them, they are dead simple to assemble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The boardwalk has been given proper framework underneath it and floor-level is up a quarter-inch off the ground to simulate a foundation. No more toylike flat-bottomed building as with TCL. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Generous proportions to allow room for lots of interior action, and to accommodate the larger figures and bases in use today with games such as Malifaux and Wild West Exodus. We spent a lot of time at the shop comparing the buildings to different sizes of figures, and we found a size that seems to work pretty well with all of them, even the old-school Knuckleduster figures of ours at the small end of 28mm. Since O-Gauge figures have no bases to make them look taller, they even look good in that scale, believe it or not!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In about a week-and-a-half, three of these will be available; a saloon, store (pictured here), and blacksmith, as well as a corral and outhouse. We'll roll them out at a fairly brisk pace after that and hope to have a very substantial selection rivaling the old TCL line by mid-summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cost will be comparable to the TCL buildings, but not that we've figured out how to keep production costs down, we're going to be able to distribute them to stores, which we couldn't do before. This gives you the ability to go to the game shop and do some "tire-kicking."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pick up your first buildings at Adepticon in a week's time, or watch for the online release at the end of the month!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 0.25in;">Later
in 2017, </span><i style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 0.25in;">Knuckleduster</i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 0.25in;"> will be
launching </span><i style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 0.25in;">Gunfighter’s Ball</i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 0.25in;">, a new
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</span><i style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 0.25in;">Gunfighter’s Ball</i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 0.25in;"> will keep the
things people have loved about </span><i style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 0.25in;">Desperado</i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 0.25in;">
while smoothing out some rough edges and adding some really useful new rule
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launch of <i>Gunfighter’s Ball</i> will make
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second is another version of the <i>Player’s
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complete Gunfighter’s Ball rules (the Judge’s Guide) will include everything
needed to play, and is currently in playtesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Below is a reference sheet entitled “<i>Son of Desperado</i>.” This incorporates a few of the ideas from
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</span><i style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 0.25in;">Classic Desperado</i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-indent: 0.25in;">, you find yourself
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modifiers are simple adjustments up or down. These merely take you up and down
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brand spanking new modifier is “Blind Shot Through Cover.” It’s a big one:
-30%. In <i>Desperado</i>, we noticed
numerous situations where you want to pepper the outhouse with gunshots,
knowing darned well the bad guy is in there. Likewise, if someone shouts at you
from behind a door, you know he’s there somewhere! With this modifier, you can
blaze away at a target your character can reasonably assume is behind a door,
fence, or wall, but can’t be seen. The shooter must have a good reason to
assume the enemy is present within a 3” swath of area, and nearly adjacent to
the target surface. It’s up to the game-master to decide if the shot is
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It's summer vacation time. I can still receive order and they'll be waiting for me. If one of my part-timers is available and familiar with order filling, he may be able to get something out in a pinch, but no guarantees. Any orders placed at this time will definitely be shipped the last week of June (assuming no backorders). I'll be monitoring my correspondence, so if you have any questions, please let me know. PS I will be sculpting while I'm gone, so I will continue to post work-in-progress (I hope I make progress!).</div>
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Every Year, like clockwork, a new Wild West "game system" comes out. I've sold Wild West game figures for almost 20 years, and I've seen what seems like that many games come and go.</div>
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The thing that has endured, since 1992, is Desperado. Sure, it's not the best rules ever written; there have always been grainy areas which we've all shrugged off with a laugh and a pronouncement of "hey, it's only Desperado." Maybe therein lies its charm. Desperado gave us permission to have fun.</div>
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You may not remember what came before Desperado. First there was Boot Hill, a TSR roleplaying game. A lot of people enjoyed Boot Hill campaigns, but as a tabletop skirmish game, it required a lot of tweaking. For one thing, combat was broken into increments of a fraction of a second.</div>
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Then there was "Once Upon a Time in the West," a small, beige book with incomprehensible rules. There was a shot clock that the user was supposed to assemble; I never could make mine work.</div>
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Then came Desperado. It started as a crib sheet that Tom Kelly used to run shootouts for the dealers after-hours at the big Eastern US conventions. He had to be persuaded by his friends to actually publish the rules, and when he did, they were comb-bound and xeroxed, in the finest 1980's style of wargame publication (it was 1992). It came in two "editions," which were actually just one rules set, the second booklet being special rules, errata, and scenarios. Together, and against all odds when put alongside the glitz that the industry was beginning to turn out, the two volumes sold thousands of copies. </div>
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Why did it sell so well? I think it's because it made us laugh. You can easily tell if people are having real fun or just "theoretical fun." In the case of "theoretical fun," people come away at the end of the game exhausted, rubbing their tired eyes, saying, "that was interesting; I like the way the initiative system works. I think I could adapt that to the Boer War." People who are having real fun do one telltale thing: they laugh. I've yet to see a Desperado game where people didn't laugh. Not only do they laugh, they practically trip over one another in haste to tell their friends what happened to lefty behind the outhouse.</div>
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The rules were easy to learn, and even if it lacked detail in certain areas (short lists of modifiers, hand-to-hand combat system that was somewhat of an afterthought), it put detail where it was most appreciated by the players. The hilariously (or brutally) specific wound chart, the chance of getting pinned under your horse, the ability to set fires and throw dynamite, the ability to challenge your opponent to a showdown in the middle of the street while all play stopped and everyone watched; all of these things endeared Desperado to a generation of gamers. </div>
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There is another aspect of Desperado I find extremely appealing. I think it captures the American mythology of the West very well. It's not about "factions," it's about individual gunfighters. </div>
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Think of movies like "Rio Bravo" or "The Outlaw Josey Wales." The protagonists aren't neat and orderly factions of "outlaws," or "cowboys," any more than they are Austrian grenadiers or Portuguese Cacadores. They're a ragtag band of individuals who work toward a common goal. If you study the historical outlaws and cowboys, you don't have to delve very deep before you realize that they too were individuals, each with a different story. Our experience of the West should not be a paramilitary exercise where one "unit" goes up against another. That makes for boring, and rather un-American storytelling.</div>
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For all of these reasons, I'll continue to sell Desperado, and the game products I have planned for 2016 and 2017 will be built on the foundation that was laid with these humble rules. Be looking for Gunfighter's Ball, a system of short scenarios and optional rules, as well as a system of terrain and figures, all of which produce quick, fun games with lots and lots of gunfighting. </div>
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For Desperado, we've created a boxed starter set that includes everything you need to start having Old West gunfights; the Desperado rules, 12 figures (including 10 gunfighters and 2 bystanders), three buildings, an outhouse, a corral, a graveyard, character and turn sequencing cards with illustrations that match the figures, easy reference sheets, and all the dice you'll ever need to play the game.</div>
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First a little something for those new to the concept of miniature gaming. In Desperado, as many as 8 or 12 players gather around a game board where model buildings, figures, and animals are used to set the scene. The board becomes the arena that players of online games like <i>Team Fortress </i>are used to, but created with physical models instead of pixels. Dice are rolled to control movement and combat and charts are used to decide who shot whom (and where).<br />
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Desperado is an old-school skirmish wargame. It is not designed for point-based tournaments with one-on-one match-ups. Rather, it is a social game where several people play together, each controlling one or two characters. Generally, players are divided into teams working toward common objectives. I call it a "social" game, because the emphasis is on having a few laughs, and not on cut-throat competition. Losing in a spectacular way is far more entertaining than winning in a game like this.<br />
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The turn sequence is driven by cards, with each character taking their entire turn when their card comes up. Movement is limited by dice rolls, so a carefully planned move may be thwarted by a bad toss. Fire is accomplished with percentile dice (two 10-sided dice which represent the "ones" and "tens" places), and takes into account range, type of weapon, the number of shots taken in one turn, and a very, very short list of other modifiers.<br />
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The<i> wound chart</i> is what probably made Desperado's reputation. When you score a hit, you roll for location and severity on a table that includes probably 30 different results. Players subtract health as they accumulate wounds, and they write down and apply specific penalties (limping, etc.).<br />
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Melee rarely happens in this game due to the lethality of fire, but when it does, the system is an opposed die roll with some bonuses and penalties.<br />
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The GM (or referee, or judge) is absolutely indispensable, because unlike a game like 40K, there is a subtle role-playing element. The scenarios are not clear "capture the flag" types of things. The game accommodates off-script situations with a generic skill test.<br />
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To understand Desperado, one must also grasp the nostalgic element of it. This game came out in 1992, and was one of the first "beer and pretzels" rules. It is by no means perfect, although some of the gaps in the original were filled in with the house rules provided in this edition. Thousands of gamers have played this game, and it is beloved by many. When people describe a Desperado game to you, they generally smile and begin recounting a hilarious string of mishaps, explosions, quips, and spectacular shots just as if it had happened to them in the real world. I've watched rules lawyers who start off scoffing at these humble little rules end up laughing alongside everyone else as unlikely but entertaining things unfold on the game table.<br />
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If you're looking for a point-based "faction"-building style of western game, Desperado is not your ticket. It is, in fact, meant to be the game you play at 8:00pm at the convention <i>after </i>a day of hard tournament gaming. It takes no preparation from the players, and a minimal amount from the GM. If you play Desperado, I guarantee you will never have to see a therapist because a 12 year-old crushed your ego with his 750-points of Elven gunfighters!<br />
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If you are a gamer of a certain age, you will fondly remember Tom Kelly's Desperado. The humble pair of comb-bound, type-written booklets arguably launched the "beer-and-pretzels" revolution in American wargaming. It preceded Volley and Bayonet, Brother Against Brother, and a host of other "light" games that displaced the massive rulebooks that by the early '90's were beginning to collapse under their own weight.<br />
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Knuckleduster sold the original two volumes for many years, but Tom eventually stopped having them printed and invited me to re-publish them with up-to-date graphics. What resulted is a testament to this most hallowed of all Wild West games. In 66 pages, we cover the original rules verbatim, with sidebars which contain rule interpretations and house rules, plus scenarios, painting tips, and information about building your own scenery. Charts and a summary of house rules are also included.<br />
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Knuckleduster has also created a figure which exemplifies the spirit of Desperado. Named "Groin Shot McGhee," he sports a well-used boilerplate over the part of his anatomy Desperado is famous for including on its wound charts. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!<br />
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Desperado is available now at www.knuckleduster.com.<br />
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<a href="http://knuckleduster.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&path=2&product_id=383" target="_blank">Desperado</a><br />
<a href="http://knuckleduster.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=385" target="_blank">Groin Shot McGhee, 32mm (big 28mm, "heroic") with slotta base</a><br />
<a href="http://knuckleduster.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=384" target="_blank">Groin Shot McGhee, 28mm with integral base</a><br />
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Paperback: 66 pages<br />
Publisher: Knuckleduster<br />
Language: English<br />
ISBN-10: 0966704649<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0966704648<br />
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.2 x 11 inches<div class="blogger-post-footer">For more information about Knuckleduster's own 40mm
sculpts, visit www.knuckleduster.com.</div>Forrest Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011241618490213564noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419861001022575279.post-14280937398210153142015-06-26T14:02:00.002-07:002015-06-26T14:02:13.484-07:00KNUCKLEDUSTER DIGITAL!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Has Knuckleduster just rung the death knell for hand-sculpted figures?<br />
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With traditional sculptors like Sebastian Archer and Tom Meier stalking the Earth, the future for traditional sculpting remains safe.<br />
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That said, Knuckleduster's new digital sculpts do have the capacity to raise eyebrows.<br />
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Three years ago, I took a look at state of digital technology and made the decision to dive into it head-first. I did not want to go the way of the village blacksmith. After throwing lots of time and money at this new art form, I arrived at figures with detail and crispness to match or exceed hand-sculpted figures, and a skillset as an artist that allowed me to fully take advantage of the new medium.<br />
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I will now present the fruits of my labor!<br />
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First of all, I should point out that digital sculpting produces a master that takes the place of the "green" that a traditional sculptor makes. These prototypes go into the mold-making process just as a handmade model does, and the product you receive is a highly-detailed metal casting, not a plastic print. I'm using the highest quality mold material for these pieces, and my tin pewter can produce razor-sharp castings that capture every detail. These are not Scruby Napoleonics!<br />
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A TALE OF TWO SCALES<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dame With No Name in Digital 28, A Woman of the Gun in 28, and The Dame in 32 (Heroic 28).</td></tr>
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These three figures are, from left to right, 28mm digital (the new OW28-500 series, which you can find in the 28mm Old West listings), 28mm traditional (this is from OW28-111, Women of the gun), and 32mm (large 28mm) digital, from the Gunfighter's Ball product line. <br />
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Notice that the two digital figures are the same character rescaled; this is a big advantage of the digital technology. I can continue to support the old 28mm scale with the same releases that are added to the "heroic" 28, aka 32mm collection.<br />
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With this scaling capability, I'm able to keep the old hand-sculpted and new digital 28mm Figures in the same product line, and I think you will find that they blend very well. I worked very hard to achieve a digital sculpting style that was not sterile and that did not look "computerized." I wanted my current customers to be able to place their old Knuckleduster figures with the new ones on the same wargame table and not have them seem mismatched. You may not realize that one of my current packs, OW28-310, Wagon Riders, are digitally-sculpted.<br />
Here we have the old, traditionally-sculpted figures alongside the new digital sculpts:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wyatt, meet Wyatt. Size and general style are the same, regardless of the obvious quality improvements wrought by the digital technology. Care has been taken to give digital Wyatt (actually Mysterious Dave Mather) the same, exaggerated proportions of a traditional 28mm figure.</td></tr>
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32MM; "HEROIC" SCALE<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Gunfighter's Ball" figures square off. Knuckleduster's new 32mm/Heroic 28mm line. Shown here with plastic slottas; MDF straight-sided slottas are provided in the same size as other current Old West games.</td></tr>
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Ever the set-in-my-ways historical wargamer, I was slow to embrace the "other" side of the hobby. But after exhibiting at Adepticon, a large game convention in Chicago, I learned how the rest of the world prefers their miniatures made. While showing my old figures, I was repeatedly asked "are these 20mm?" Even though I patiently explained how this was a grand old scale with the most variety available in it; that they could get stagecoaches, civilians, animals, and even potbellied stoves in this smaller scale, they persisted in viewing the like of Knuckleduster, Foundry, Old Glory, and Dixon as passe--geezer figures--not deserving of consideration. It was clear that I had to come up with larger and better figures to offer this more sophisticated market.<br />
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So the new scale I've introduced is 32mm, which is sometimes called "heroic 28mm", or even simply called "28mm" by some manufacturers. Almost all fantasy and sci-fi figures now use this scale, so if you're looking for western characters for a Malifaux game, my 32s will fit scale-wise with any of the figures in that genre. They feature a slotta-base arrangement, but I've elected to sell them with MDF slotta bases that are almost identical to ones distributed with integral-base figures such as Dead Man's Hand. I will be filling this line out with mounted figures, casualties, and lots of characters. I will even have some weird characters for those of you who like that sort of thing!<br />
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COST<br />
The price is higher for the digitally-created packs; I cannot lie. I have to recover the cost of some very expensive equipment. For the 32s, expect to pay about the same as a Reaper Chronoscope figure. The 28s are still considerably cheaper than Dead Man's Hand or Foundry figures. Additionally, I will not be replacing or removing the old 28mm figures; they will remain in the catalog at the old price, so you will always have the cheap and cheerful alternative available to you.<br />
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THE FUTURE<br />
What's next? Flying cars? Robots? Silver jumpsuits?<br />
I don't know about any of that, but as for Knuckleduster, we have a digital horse being rigged out with his western tack at the moment and is almost ready to ride. I'll be producing new sculpts using him, and will be creating mounted versions of characters to go with them. I have lots of funky gear and strange characters mapped out, so be watching!<br />
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Dan McGann and all of the other Gunfighter's Ball characters are now available, as well as a six-figure set that includes 28mm versions of the same in the old format.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Flank View of the 49th and the 89th in the British Center.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"My Regiment, Damnit. 'Paid for it. It's mine."</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ripley's 21st in Line in the American Center.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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sculpts, visit www.knuckleduster.com.</div>Forrest Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011241618490213564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419861001022575279.post-85354089810870215742015-05-04T04:47:00.001-07:002015-05-04T05:15:14.507-07:00Parade of New Releases; 28mm Mounted Robbers, Poker Set and Wounded, PLUS New 32mm RangesSo much news for May that I don't know where to start!<br />
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Oh, well, let's just start with the new 28mm Old West items.<br />
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First off, we have<a href="http://knuckleduster.com/shop/index.php?route=product/category&path=1_14_24" target="_blank"> mounted versions</a> of the figures in the Robbers set, ow28-115. These figures give your James Gang the ability to get away in a hurry! As with the other mounted sets, they feature three two-man packs which correspond to the six figures in the dismounted packs.<br />
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Next, we have, by request, more wounded figures.I like to give a variety of costuming in order to give you the ability to find a figure that roughly represents your character.<br />
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I have replaced the Poker Set (the old KDP-OW012). The mold tore and the masters were woefully out-of-date, so I spruced it up by replacing.....EVERYTHING. I sculpted the figures separate from the chairs so you can use them with any furniture you happen to have. The chairs were designed digitally and come in two pieces; the bottom legs and rungs are one piece, and the seat and back are the other piece. The table is in one piece, with nicely detailed poker chips and glasses cast right on the table-top.<br />
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The next news item really merits its own story; I have added a line of 32mm Old West characters which I'm calling GUNFIGHTER'S BALL. I have some customers who prefer the larger 28s (which are increasingly called 32mm) such as Dead Man's Hand, Copplestone, Reaper, or Black Scorpion. In order to serve that segment of the market, I am digitally sculpting some very highly-detailed slotta base figures. I will also be issuing these in 28mm with integral bases--I would never leave my loyal 28mm customers in the lurch!<br />
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Finally, I've added two product lines from Australia, both by master sculptor Sebastian Archer. I first saw these figures in the Crystal Brush Competition at Adepticon in Chicago last year and was so impressed, I tracked down the sculptor and began importing them.<br />
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He has two product lines: <a href="http://knuckleduster.com/shop/index.php?route=product/category&path=1_68_69" target="_blank">Guild of Harmony</a> is a small collection of nifty steampunk characters.<br />
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Twisted is the beginning of a line that will blossom into a full-fledged Steampunk game universe. The initial two offerings are limited-edition resin kits with outstanding detail.<br />
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Finally, I'm now on Facebook! Never fear; if you're not a Facebook person (I wasn't until business forced me into it), I will continue to issue news through the newsletter and my website.<br />
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The Home Page of the website will be changing--www.knuckleduster.com will soon be taking you to the home page of the shopping cart. All of the links you need will still be there--the downloads page in particular, but also the newsletter signups and links to our various blogs such as this one and Tumblr.<br />
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I've just posted a new figure set for sale--<a href="http://knuckleduster.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=341" target="_blank">28mm Robbers</a>.<br />
These are meant to represent one of the notorious gangs of thieves that plagued banks, railroads, and stagecoach lines. The James and Dooling-Dalton gangs spring to mind.<br />
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These characters wear long dusters--not the layered canvas anachronisms worn in low-budget Hollywood movies and TV commercials, but the garment that Westerners called a "duster." It was more like what we would call a "lab coat" today; a simple, white linen coat meant to protect your suit from dust. It had only a simple collar, no lapels, and certainly not the cape over the shoulders that modern trench coats and Nashville "dusters" have. I've included several variations, some more fancy than others.<br />
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Another historically-accurate feature of these figures is the headgear; more specifically, the face-gear. Real stagecoach robbers wore gunney-sacks over their heads with holes cut out for the eyes and mouth. I've given you figures with these, and some with the more familiar bandannas, both over-the-mouth and pulled down.<br />
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Several of the robbers carry shotguns and rifles; "longarms" were more popular than pistols among these criminals, and they were part and parcel of their costuming strategy. The long coats aided in concealment of a longarm until the trap was spung. Particulary popular were fearsome sawed-off shotguns, a real conversation stopper when it's pulled out.<br />
Now I have to "steal" some time to do some painting!<br />
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TCL strikes again with a collection of 28mm laser-cut wood building kits representing the adobe buildings of the Southwest. <br />
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The second design is a more modest house, but not small by any means. It includes a pueblo-style ladder leading to the roof.<br />
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Either kit can be enhanced by adding a building addition, sold separately.<br />
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The buildings come unpainted and unassembled. I've collected photos of the constituent parts and I'm using them to illustrate instructions for assembly.<br />
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Stock will be coming in any day now, so be watching!<br />
These will go great with Knuckleduster's Banditos:)<br />
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There can be fewer acts of valor in the face of overwhelming odds than the 93rd Highlanders' storming of the American advance redoubt at New Orleans. As the British Army was being bled white by withering fire, the 1st (flank) company of the 93rd surprised and overwhelmed a redoubt next to the river on the American right. Unsupported and exposed to a hail of lead from the US 7th Infantry, the detachment was mowed down. The remainder of the regiment, which should have been behind them, were inexplicably ordered on a futile and suicidal march across the middle of the killing zone to join another group assaulting the American left.</div>
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The main body of the regiment was observed standing at the canal in front of the the American position without the ladders and fascines they were promised in order to cross the the water and scale the works, awaiting orders which would never come from the silent lips of their dead commanders, "unable to go forward, too proud to retreat."<br />
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So we have here, as is so often the case, lions used like dogs. C'est la guerre. Fortunately, the only widows gaming produces are tin widows, so we can send our little men on any doomed mission we can dream up with a clear conscience!</div>
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The 93rd assembled in Plymouth, England for the expedition. They were ordered to wear trousers due to a shortage of kilt hose (socks) and a feeling among command that kilts were "ill-calculated for severe service" (maybe it was really a shortage of Bond's Gold Powder). Tartan arrived from South Africa in time to be made up into trousers ("trews"). Their bonnets were considerably simpler than those worn in the Peninsular War or at Waterloo, and certainly a far cry from the Lady Ga-Ga getup worn in the Crimea. A simple blue tam was worn with a wide, red-and-white checked band around the bottom. A pom ("tourie") topped off the cap, white for grenadiers, green for lights, and red for everyone else. </div>
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The tartan was the Government Sett. I own and occasionally wear a kilt of this pattern, so you would think painting it would be easy. Think again. I am very much a novice when it comes to painting tartan, but I gave it my best. I painted them blue, then green stripes, then a light green highlight at the junction of the green lines, then a thin black line down the center of the green. A far cry from the Crystal Brush competition, but it gets the job done and looks good at arm's length.</div>
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The 93rd is an essential unit to have if you're planning on gaming the Battle of New Orleans. They were critically important on the day of the battle, and they took part in a hotly-contested night battle during the lead-up to the battle.</div>
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I'll leave you with a joke a musician friend of mine from Northern Ireland often tells. Do you know the difference between a kilt and a skirt? If you're wearin' underwear, it's a skirt!</div>
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A sometimes overlooked pack in the Knuckleduster catalog is the "Frontier Justice" set (<a href="http://knuckleduster.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&path=1_14_3&product_id=245" target="_blank">OW28-310</a>). These six figures include an undertaker (complete with greasy combover), a Sheriff, a prisoner waiting to be hanged, a doctor rushing to the scene of the crime, a judge (or minister) making sanctimonious pronouncements, and last but not least, the hangman himself.<br />
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Let's start with him. I used as my inspiration the dour George Maledon, who pulled the gallows lever for the infamous "hanging judge" Parker at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Here's George as he appeared alongside George Clooney in the 1896 issue of GQ:<br />
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....and here he is as I have immortalized him in tin pewter:</div>
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Of course, these figures properly belong with one of TCL's laser-cut gallows:<br />
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The rope is not included in the gallows kit; I made mine from some string that came with a model ship. I never found time to build the ship, but the string has come in handy many times!<br />
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Poor fella'. No DNA testing in the Old West. Ben Franklin once said, "I<span style="background-color: white; color: #000020;">t is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved." They apparently were not great admirers of Ben Franklin in Fort Smith. Of course, the characters brought in by the US Marshals from the Oklahoma territory were unlikely to include many "innocent persons."</span><br />
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Why not add a character from the "<a href="http://knuckleduster.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&path=1_14_3&product_id=34" target="_blank">working men</a>" set to the grisly scene. Here is a gravedigger regarding the whole affair while leaning thoughfully on the handle of his spade:<br />
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The Mohawk (properly called the Kanien'kehá:ka), Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora in the East, and the tribes of Tecumseh's federation in the West, were heavily engaged throughout the War. Native warriors fought on both sides, but primarily for the British. They are essential figures to possess in order to game the Battle of Crysler's Farm, Queenston Heights, the Thames, and numerous smaller conflicts.<br />
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By 1812, aboriginal dress had incorporated a lot of European items, so figures from the French and Indian War are not quite right for the period. Crysler's Farm is a good example; during the winter, warriors were likely to be wearing wool coats or capots and stocking caps or head scarves rather than scalplocks and linen. Can you imagine being bare-chested in sub-freezing temperatures with nothing but a loincloth and leggings? (Can you imagine a gamer dressed like that? Now I've gone and lost my appetite!)<br />
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Knuckleduster has two packs of warriors; one dressed for summer, and one for winter, plus a pair of high-ranking leaders with large blankets and traditional gustoweh headdresses. Leggings and breechclouts are worn by all, but generally covered by a shirt or coat belted with a sash.<br />
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There are numerous excellent Native figures on the market, mostly of the "naked savage" variety which depict traditional summer dress, which is why I only make one figure in that idiom. The remainder of my figures make an attempt to show what they would have looked like in 1812.<br />
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Summer dress; only one "naked savage" in this group. Linen shirts and scalplock hairdress for summer. Bare heads were plucked, not shaved (sounds painful), and a small square patch of hair was left in the back of the crown, which was grown long and braided. A decorative "roach" was attached to the hair, composed of dyed porcupine quills, deer hair, and various feathers, creating a very personalized headdress. Mohaws did not have the "Mohawk" hair style we associate with them, and popularized in the movie, "Drums on the Mowhawk." Inspiration for that movie's hairdresser must have come from certain Plains Indian tribes, such as the Pawnee, who had bristling strips of hair on the top of their scalps. </div>
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Cold weather dress; heavier shirts and coats are worn, as well as head scarves that cover their traditional hairstyles. Warpaint is very much in evidence, black and red being the most common colors.</div>
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It's difficult to do justice to all their wampum belts and other decorative fabrics. Sashes and belts were finely decorated, some with geometric designs and others with very sophisticated floral patterns woven into the cloth. Even loincloths (breechclouts) sported colorful stripes and geometric designs. As a result, they've been painted to give only an impression of these ornate designs.<br />
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For more information, take a look at Stuart Asquith's excellent book on War of 1812 Uniforms, as well as Renee Chartrand's book on the British and Canadian forces.<br />
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TCL's new blacksmith shop is a tour-de-force; using only their lego-simple laser-cut design system, even I can produce a decent model.<br />
Here are some random snapshots that give you a fair idea how the whole thing goes together:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The front, including the parts for the trim, doors, and windows. A with the Dance Hall, the trim must go on in the arrangement picutred; in other words, they can't overlap in a different order.</td></tr>
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TCL has just released this magnificent Dance Hall. It comes with a bar, a bandstand, and tables which can be left in (making it a large saloon with a stage where one might see a can-can burlesque) or taken out (making it an actual dance hall where the musicians occupy the stage and dancers fill the floor).<br />
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Kits like these are not too difficult to build, but since they don't come with instructions, one can occasionally get stumped. I've taken these photos to serve as a guide:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basic assembly; note the new floor texture TCL has added. Be sure the plain side of the walls face inward.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bandstand; the bottom part has no texture.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Table assembly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front with trim; it's very important to arrange the trim strips as shown, as they only work overlapping in one way.</td></tr>
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The assembled front.</td></tr>
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<b>THE BAR</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basic layout of the bar.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A suggested starting point for assembly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The supported beneath the counter.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Voila! I'll have a Johnny Walker Black, neat... On second thought, better make that a double.</td></tr>
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So there you go! An Old West dance hall; just add a Knuckleduster piano player, some Knuckleduster can-can girls, the Knuckleduster saloon figure set (do you see a pattern here?) . . .<br />
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This cavalry unit, which also included men from the area where the River Raisin massacre took place, was trained to fight mounted or dismounted in the wilderness, and were armed with a rifle, hatchet, and long knife.<br />
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During the battle of the Thames, Harrison used them to overrun the British 41st foot deployed in the woods on the American right. He commented that nobody could gallop through wooded terrain like American backwoodsmen, and the result of the charge, one of only two cavalry charges undertaken in the War of 1812, was a complete route of one of Britain's most heavily-engaged and well-regarded regiments in North America.<br />
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I finally painted a unit of these figures in their distinctive black hunting shirts with red fringe. Their gear was, in reality, probably black, but I chose buckskin belts to stand out against the black shirts, reasoning that it would not be uncommon to find natural colors of leather in use among troops such as these.<br />
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They are armed with the Model 1804 Harper's Ferry Rifle, the official rifled longarm of the US Army during the war. It was a half-stock weapon with no sling. I've thrown in a dragoon pistol, since they were ubiquitous among mounted troops of all types during the Napoleonic era.<br />
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The command figures include a bugler and standard-bearer, and in a separate pack is their leader, Richard Mentor Johnson. I posed this figure to be reminiscent of an illustration depicting his supposed duel with Tecumseh, whose death many credited him after the battle (a fact trotted out when he ran for Congress after the war); after I painted my sample, I learned that his white horse was not the sentimental hyperbole I had supposed, and that he in fact rode a white horse into battle!<br />
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One day in January, having realized my boyhood dream of being able to create a Napoleonic army out of thin air in an afternoon with a few spins of the centrifugal casting machine, I sat down to figure out what I would need to put on the battle of Crysler's Farm using my Knuckleduster figures. Turns out, I needed a new type of uniform for most of my American troops, and I hadn't yet sculpted it.<br />
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So, as is my wont, I sculpted it! Now I have filled this gap in the product line, and a colorful gap it is.<br />
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My American troops at that time all fell into three basic types; 1812, 1814, and various militia. But none of these were quite right for 1813. Turns out, the American army throughout the 1813 campaign season (a third of the war), wore a hybrid of the 1812 and 1814 uniform. On paper, the US Army had an entirely new uniform in 1813; a plain coatee without much of the lace adorning earlier incarnations of the garment, and a durable, smart new leather shako. But as any student of military history can tell you, the dictates from on high do not always translate into changes in the field; at least not right away.<br />
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The leather shako was delivered very quickly to the front lines, and most units had them in hand for the 1813 campaign season. The coats were another story; the old laced 1812 coatee continued to be worn by a substantial number of units, and because of shortages of blue dye, it was delivered to units in various shades of grey,"drab" (which could theoretically be dyed blue at a later time), brown, and black. According to Chartrand, the Army specified that, "the mixed color coatees and garments were to be cut as prescribed in the February 1812 regulations, with red collars and cuffs, and white lace binding."<br />
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Chartrand put together a listing of what was issued during the winter of 1812-1813. There is no guarantee that these were the uniforms worn at Crysler's (not "Chrysler's") Farm, but it is a decent guess. The units wearing this old coat/new cap (as we know, a shako is a "cap" and a bicorne or tricorne is a "hat") configuration, were as follows (coat color follows listing):<br />
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12th US: Drab, red facings<br />
14th: Brown for some, Drab faced with Red for others.<br />
21st: Blue, red facings<br />
16th: Black, red facings<br />
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The 25th had the old felt shako and a blue coat faced with red (and with minimal lace). I have no information on the 13th or the 9th. Most would have black leather belting, however on the very dark uniforms, I have used white to make them stand out (for shame for shame). Also, apparently some units had black lace instead of white. If you'd like to track down that information, you are welcome to do so!<br />
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Tri-City Laser has created a line of laser-cut wood building kits that are relatively easy to assemble and etched with detail that look fantastic when given the kind of dry-brushed highlighting technique that is in every gamer's basic skillset. I was tasked with creating painted samples of the entire line and photographing them for the sell sheets which make up the line's basic promotional package. That meant finishing a lot of buildings quickly. This experience helped me build the following technique which I have found gives the neatest, cleanest result the most efficiently.<br />
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The foundation of this technique is painting the building before it is assembled. By doing so, you don't have do as much fiddly stuff around the details and can more or less slap the paint on. You must be warned that it can cause some swelling in the wood, especially if you use too much paint; but although I've had tight fits at time, I've never had a building that failed to go together.<br />
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The building I've chosen to illustrate my technique is the newest release, a small store with a fancy stepped-front. First off, lay out all your unpainted parts and give it a dry test-fitting to make sure you know how everything goes together.<br />
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Let's start with the exterior surfaces. The front, sides, back, roof, and floor need a thin coat of dark sepia brown paint. Because I need large quantities for terrain and buildings, I mix this color myself with black and red craft paints (make sure they are a good quality, opaque variety). Use a fairly stiff brush and work the paint into all the cracks and crevices.<br />
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Once this coat has dried and the missed spots touched up, it's time for the first dry-brushed layer. I use a medium brown craft paint which is a bit like raw sienna. Michael's craft store sells it by the exciting name "brown."<br />
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The next shade for the plain wood portions of the building is a very subtle mustard-yellow-brown; something like yellow ochre. At it's most basic it is a mix of brown and yellow. This is dry-brushed over all the surfaces that got the brown treatment earlier.<br />
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Now on to the more colorful parts of the building. Often times, the false front was only part of an Old West building that was painted. I've chosen green with yellow trim, but these are very subtle, muted colors and not GREEN! and YELLOW!<br />
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I want the final highlights to give it an olive aspect, so I begin by adding black to olive (you can create olive from black and yellow, just like Napoleon did for his gun carriages) to get a nice dark olive drab. Paint the top half of the front and the back of the front (the part that shows above the roof when viewed from behind). The lower half of the front will get a different treatment.<br />
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The lower half of the front and all of the trim pieces will receive a basic coat of yellow ochre, the mustard-brown color mentioned earlier. Notice how I do all the windows very thoroughly with this coat, working it onto every surface of the window sashes, and painting slightly beyond the window frames, but not so far that it will extend beyond the trim piece, which will be glued on later.<br />
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The interior of the walls recieve a tan which you can dapple and highlight to your heart's content to simulate a smoke-stained white wall.<br />
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And there it is! I plan on making this into an undertaker's shop; Rigor and Mortis, Undertakers (for you Bugs Bunny fans).<br />
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In February, 1813, the US Army issued a new shako; one made of leather and featuring a false front, much like the British "Belgic" shako. This durable article became very popular in the Army and quickly supplanted the earlier simple felt design.<br />
There were two models of this shako issued. The M1813 was the first. Its front was fairly square in appearance, and was sometimes outlined in white paint. It featured a large shako plate, and the crown seems to have varied in height.<br />
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The second model was the M1814. The examples I've seen are more conical in appearance than the M1813, and feature a crown that was considerably more rounded; I honestly don't know if this was a universal change for the 1814 model, or a case of different contractors interpreting the specifications differently, but every M1814 I've seen so far was of the conical type, and every M1813 example I've seen had a front that presented a more flat and square appearance. The 1814 model also featured a smaller and lighter shako plate.<br />
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The subject of uniforms of the War of 1812 is very complex. Uniforms changed considerably throughout the war and units didn't always receive new items immediately when they became available. This shako is a good case in point; the 9th, 11th, 21st, 22nd, and 25th infantry, which comprised Scott's brigade, did not receive any supplies in the spring of 1814, except for the infamous grey roundabouts and pantaloons. Scott's bitter rival, General James Wilkinson, diverted all other clothing issues to his own command, which would have included the new 1814 shako. It can be surmised that Scott's command was wearing the 1813 model during the Niagara campaign.<br />
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Bibliography<br />
Chartrand, Rene. <i>A Most Warlike Appearance: Uniforms, Flags and Equipment of the United States in the War of 1812</i>. Ottawa: Service Publications, 2010.<br />
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Blood was first spilled at Lundy's Lane by canonballs from the mouth of the British guns, and our game begins with the British side attempting to do the same (and generally succeeding). The batteries in the graveyard could have been represented with a section of six-pounders, a congreve rocket team, and a ridiculously-large 24lb gun; however, a 5.5inch howitzer was present in the British OB, and we chose to give the British player this toy to play with instead of a boring old six-pound gun.<br />
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The three different types of ordinance present the players with a lot of rules to manage, and we wrote up an alternate cheat sheet that added a table of artillery rules (how many dice at what range with what to-hit number for which gun). We used the rules for artillery chapter and verse from the Black Powder rulebook, with the exception of giving the 24lb gun a couple of advantages. The heavy gun's fire dice are 2-3-4 (long-med-close). Additionally, there is no -1 penalty for long-range fire.<br />
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In a year-and-a-half of running this game, the first round of British artillery fire has not caused an American unit to break entirely, however Scott's Brigade is routinely rendered a disordered mess incapable of mounting a general advance on the hill. Some players have managed to push one or two units raggedly toward the British line, but most will hunker down and refuse their left flank to fend off the green coats worrying them from the fence line.</div>
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During this first turn, the American artillery will try to place fire on the hill, however a -1 penalty is assessed due to the elevation; not in the rulebook, but necessary to portray the difficulty with which Towson had trying to get roundshot to do anything but bury itself in the dirt.</div>
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At the beginning of Turn 2, the British have the opportunity to be patient, continue pounding the hapless grey coats, and perhaps run some skirmishers into the orchard to their immediate front. Most players will trust to the strength of their position and wait for the Americans to come on, however a few will lose their heads and turn loose the Royal Scots or, God Forbid, the 89th from their snug spot supporting the guns.</div>
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An aggressive move by the British early in the game, before the Americans have shown their hand, is punished during the beginning of the US turn 2 when the American reinforcements arrive. Brown arrives with Ripley's brigade on the road in the US rear. It's wise to give them one free move on the board in order to them into action as soon as possible, but we've also required command rolls to bring them on the table; your choice. Simultaneously, Jessup's 25th, supported by the skirmishers of Ketchum's company (a tiny unit) enters in any formation they wish astride the road on the British left flank, just inside the deep dark woods. </div>
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The British response to this action can be quite amusing, especially if the Incorporated Militia has been pushed forward, bringing the Americans on the board <i>behind</i> them. We are very generous with units that must extricate themselves from trouble, knowing that well trained troops with good discipline can execute any number of maneuvers to reorient themselves. We employ a house-rule, apparently a popular one among Black Powder players, giving a disordered unit the chance to make one move backward in lieu of rallying in order to extricate itself from peril. We instituted this fairly early in our experience with the rules after watching a French dragoon unit trapped and annihilated by rifles; an entire regiment completely unable to run away and save themselves being nibbled into oblivion by a handful of skirmishers.</div>
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The middle-game consists of firefights on the British left, Scott's brigade totally consumed with rallying units and fighting off the threat to their left, and American and British reinforcements filtering forward into action. Here the key to the battle becomes apparent; the Americans must get Ripley's brigade to the hill as quickly as possible and must charge the guns with alacrity before the British can reinforce the graveyard. </div>
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<span designtimesp="15969" style="font-size: small;">The War of 1812 was
fought largely in Canada and the northern US, therefore winter gear was a
necessity. At the Battle of Crysler's Farm (the correct spelling, although "Chrysler" is sometimes used by those more familiar with the cars), the American 3rd Brigade commander Covington mistook the British 49th Foot for militia because of their greatcoats.</span><br />
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<span designtimesp="15969" style="font-size: small;"> The British Army's winter gear included not only the
greatcoat, but also various fur-covered shakos, fingerless gloves, and "beef
boots," the design of which Renee Chartrand speculates to be similar to a
"mukaluk," although no examples or documentation of their design survive
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under the cape which covered the shoulders. The blanket is still rolled and
strapped over the backpack, but should be painted the light tan color of British
blankets rather than the grey of a greatcoat, since the greatcoat is being worn
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The spirit of a British army on the march in the winter is best portrayed by this photo from the Crimea, a war fought by the British in uniforms which were still very Napoleonic in appearance:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">At a quarter-till-eight in the evening, American commander Winfield Scott emerged from the woods with his 1st Brigade of the Left Division and immediately came under heavy artillery fire as his troops hastened into position. There were remarkably few incidents of disorder during this challenging deployment, due in no small measure to Scott's belief in extensive drill and harsh military discipline. It was this discipline that gave his units the ability to march into effective artillery range, about 400 yards from the enemy, and stand there like Russian grenadiers, to be murdered by the bushel, as their commander tried to decide what to do next.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Winfield Scott was a blunder waiting to happen. An arrogant, aggressive, moody, and unpredictable martinet, he was also a remarkably unimaginative field commander who allowed his brigade to be practically annihilated, using up ammunition in wasted shots at out-of-range targets. We didn't use any special rules for him, but there are certainly opportunities to do so. If anyone would suddenly lose patience and order a headlong charge into the teeth of the guns, it would be Winfield Scott, as you will see in time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Fortunately, Scott had an ace-in-the-hole: Jessup's 25th infantry, which was sent on a deep flanking maneuver up a recently-discovered track through the woods along the river on the American far right flank. The 25th included a company of light troops under the command of Ketchum, who skirmished ahead of the main body, and was responsible for taking many officers and messengers prisoner before the night was over. We did not actually march them up the flank as in the photo, but held them off-board and placed them at the start of American turn 2 astride Lundy's Lane in line, just inside the woods, with Ketchum's tiny unit on their right in skirmish order.</span></div>
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And now for the fashion show. As you're no doubt already aware, Scott's brigade was issued short grey roundabouts instead of blue regimentals due to supply shortages, and the dark machinations of rival commanders elsewhere in the theater. All four regiments under his command sport these, along with the false-front "Tombstone" leather shakos, white summer trousers, and equipment as depicted below.<br />
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Scott was accompanied by Nathan Towson's artillery, a section of two 6lb. guns and one 5.5" howitzer, represented on the board with a 6lb. section. The gun is large; it's made by Elite and it probably a bit too big for our figures. I may be replacing these with Front Rank until Knuckleduster can design ones of their own. When choosing artillery pieces to use for the Americans, French Napoleonic pieces work well since the US appears to have mounted their guns using the Gribeauval system, and with mostly iron barrels. I had to file the Napoleonic eagle off this gun (heartbreaking thing to do to an Elite artillery tube) and sculpt an American eagle in its place.<br />
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Towson had a lot of trouble putting effective fire on the hill where the British artillery was situated. He tried different angles and methods before admitting that his fire was mostly effective only in bolstering the spirits of the American infantry and gave up. For this reason, artillery fire at the hilltop positions receives a -1 at any range.<br />
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The battle began with a token cavalry force of US Light Dragoons and New York militia cavalry sitting on the Portage road awaiting instructions. High command stole them away for messengers and scouts rather than giving them any significant combat role, but they will of course be ridden into the ground by any gamer who gets his fat little hands on them.<br />
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In our scenario, the Scott's main body begins the game at the lateral road about 18 inches from the British guns, with the knowledge that reinforcements are due soon and that Jessup is away on his secret mission. The British go first. It is up to the American player, provided he survives the initial British bombardment, what to do with the main body of the 1st Brigade; whether to attack in some manner, retreat into the woods to take shelter until help arrives, or to stay put.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">NEXT UP:</span><br />
PART III; THUNDER ON THE NIAGARA!<br />
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