Over the Fourth of July weekend I got some of the Usual Suspects together for a game. Being as it was the day after Independence Day I ran a condensed version of the Battle of Monmouth. The minis involved were Trunkmonkey's British and my American Rebels, mostly products of the venerable RAFM range, the rules were our One Brain Cell Rules which play fast and smoothly. We had a jolly old time and the Americans won!
As I was putting the minis back into the storage bins it occurred to me that I had (somewhere) a good many more of those RAFM figures stashed in the Mountain of Shame. I went and dug around in the deeper regions of the Mountain I found a dusty box of minis, to my surprise I found that I had nearly a brigade worth of French infantry. I smiled as I remembered the days of hustling home from the Hobby Shop with my little bag of figures and then rushing through painting them so they would be ready for the next weekends game. No subtle shading or highlights, just simple block-painting and basing on a strip of balsa wood and then off into the fray! I wondered if I still could manage that speed. I took four cards of minis, one command, one of grenadiers and two of line infantry and set them on the workbench thinking that I would give a go.
The next morning was bright and hot so I cleaned up and hot-glued the minis to their painting bases. The heat of the day meant that the primer dried in quick order and I sat myself down to start painting. To my pleasant surprise in less than six hours of painting time I had finished the unit and transferred them to their gaming bases. No fancy ground-effects or flock here, we were going Old-School, just a coat of Hauser Medium Green and they were ready for the table.
Now I have to decide if I'm going to drop everything and head down the rabbit-hole of finishing up the rest of the RAFM minis, sigh.
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