From a simple diodrama perspective, I would rank the series from easiest to hardest to accurately display as:
(1) Jacobite Rebellion --- Close quarters and no damm trees. Figures are superb, maybe his best. The potential here is enormous.
(2) Battle of Chippawa --- Two opposing firing lines. Corn/Wheat Field, but some dead ground between the firing lines. Very Napoleonic. Americans at one end of the curio, the Britsh at the other. Whoever fires first, loses the battle.
(3) Plains of Abraham --- Again, two opposing firing lines, but open dead ground between the firing lines. Fields, not forest. Think this series is only going to get more compelling. Probably need more space for this then a Chippawa display. Leaning towards massive as we now have both battle and post-battle elements.
(4) Battle of Snowshoes --- If you have Department 56 Pequot Pines, this series becomes so so much easier to display. These trees are awesome. If not, it drops lower on the list. Love to have 20 of those trees without the snowcover on them.
(5) Raid on Saint Francis --- Need to be clever here. Dead space problem between the fort walls and the tree line -- minimum of 100 yards open ground. Woodland Indians charging a fort wall with more than just a very few defenders is not historical. Small scale diodramas featuring ambush, suprise, cunning or overwhehlimg numbers maybe the way to go. However, small scale diodramas of non-combat episodes should be relatively simple.
Canoe racing displays featuring the future captive canoe set/ whaleboats and CAN 01 and CAN 02 on well done water should be simple --- hello photo shoots and curio shelves. Just need to learn how to do the water.
(6) Battle of Monongahela - Total pain in the butt, nothing feels right. The forest cover is a huge problem - decidous trees and shrubs generally look lame and are scaled badly in relation to the figures. You have the British confined to a 12-foot wide road covered in a dense haze of musket smoke. The French and Indians are at a distance in dense cover. The battle lasts for hours and hours and until the British are out of ammo (24 shots each) or running - very limited close quarters. A display of BMs-6 (wounded), BM-07 (sergeant and corporal), BM-10 (Bayonet drill) with flags sets BM3 and 11 and Braddock in BM -14 has potential. However, getting this right is just plain hard.
After the diffculty of displaying BoM, which series is apparently the most popular and talked about ---- BoM of course!!! Tells us something about ourselves.
Think I will go collect Jacobite and go around talking in a fake Scottish accent!!!
Take care, Laddies!!!
(1) Jacobite Rebellion --- Close quarters and no damm trees. Figures are superb, maybe his best. The potential here is enormous.
(2) Battle of Chippawa --- Two opposing firing lines. Corn/Wheat Field, but some dead ground between the firing lines. Very Napoleonic. Americans at one end of the curio, the Britsh at the other. Whoever fires first, loses the battle.
(3) Plains of Abraham --- Again, two opposing firing lines, but open dead ground between the firing lines. Fields, not forest. Think this series is only going to get more compelling. Probably need more space for this then a Chippawa display. Leaning towards massive as we now have both battle and post-battle elements.
(4) Battle of Snowshoes --- If you have Department 56 Pequot Pines, this series becomes so so much easier to display. These trees are awesome. If not, it drops lower on the list. Love to have 20 of those trees without the snowcover on them.
(5) Raid on Saint Francis --- Need to be clever here. Dead space problem between the fort walls and the tree line -- minimum of 100 yards open ground. Woodland Indians charging a fort wall with more than just a very few defenders is not historical. Small scale diodramas featuring ambush, suprise, cunning or overwhehlimg numbers maybe the way to go. However, small scale diodramas of non-combat episodes should be relatively simple.
Canoe racing displays featuring the future captive canoe set/ whaleboats and CAN 01 and CAN 02 on well done water should be simple --- hello photo shoots and curio shelves. Just need to learn how to do the water.
(6) Battle of Monongahela - Total pain in the butt, nothing feels right. The forest cover is a huge problem - decidous trees and shrubs generally look lame and are scaled badly in relation to the figures. You have the British confined to a 12-foot wide road covered in a dense haze of musket smoke. The French and Indians are at a distance in dense cover. The battle lasts for hours and hours and until the British are out of ammo (24 shots each) or running - very limited close quarters. A display of BMs-6 (wounded), BM-07 (sergeant and corporal), BM-10 (Bayonet drill) with flags sets BM3 and 11 and Braddock in BM -14 has potential. However, getting this right is just plain hard.
After the diffculty of displaying BoM, which series is apparently the most popular and talked about ---- BoM of course!!! Tells us something about ourselves.
Think I will go collect Jacobite and go around talking in a fake Scottish accent!!!
Take care, Laddies!!!
