Monday, 30 March 2020

Shed, 1898 and a recommendation

A cold day here yesterday but I braved the shed to rummage around and find these chaps for the forthcoming Colonial Portable Wargame. They are Freikorp 15mm from the mid eighties. The metal is/was brittle and some repairs need to done.

I was really impressed by the ideas that you came up with for opponents, did some reading and watched a couple of film trailers along the way. Lots of ideas and I will have a think. Finally can I recommend some novels to you by John Biggins. They are set in the last fifty years of the Austro Hungarian empire and are most enjoyable,full of fascinating characters and interesting background. Although I don’t quite agree, but know what they mean, someone reviewed them and said they were a cross between Tom Clancy and Patrick OBrian. Well worth a read.


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9 comments:

  1. The Good Soldier Svjek30 March 2020 at 10:33

    I once sent off a sample order to Frei Korps for those Spanish-American war figures and the order arrived with 50% of the figures with snapped ankles , think they use softer metal nowadays .

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    1. tradgardmastare31 March 2020 at 07:14

      My experience with ankles was the same. I am glad to hear that they are using softer metal as the figures themselves look great.

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  2. Grenzer John30 March 2020 at 13:49

    FreiKorps 15's used to make the figures with such a high tin content that they damaged easily. A friend of mine dropped on on his basement's concrete floor and the figure shattered. I haven't purchased anything from them in a long while, although I too have heard they changed their metal content to something less brittle. Still, I always liked their figures.

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    1. tradgardmastare31 March 2020 at 07:15

      I’ve only dropped a few single element bases but the damage was awful.

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  3. Maudlin Jack Tar30 March 2020 at 19:24

    Great to see you're getting ready for the Colonial PW! I'm looking forward to getting a copy too, though I've so many other half-started projects!

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  4. Jonathan Freitag31 March 2020 at 04:40

    Freikorps 15s are no longer made of brittle metal. Very durable now and have been for many years.

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  5. tradgardmastare31 March 2020 at 07:17

    I may well order some replacements for the broken Cubans in that case.

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  6. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com31 March 2020 at 16:51

    I had a quite a number of their SYW figures in the 80's and also various types drafted into my Vendean and Haitian rebel ranks and never had a problem but I confess I wasn't prone to throwing them about .. :)

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