{"id":2296,"date":"2013-10-27T20:50:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T20:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2013-10-27T20:50:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T20:50:59","slug":"not-quite-the-seven-years-war-in-miniature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=2296","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite the Seven Years War (in Miniature)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some years ago, Rob got us all started on Not Quite the Seven Years War, a project involving 54mm home-cast figures and using Charge!<\/em> as the rules. \u00a0Each of the HAWKs made up a country. \u00a0Mine is Bergdorfreuthenheim (Berg, dorf, reuth, and heim all mean “small village” or something similar in German.) \u00a0In 54mm, the line infantry of my army was dressed in olive coats and khaki trousers. \u00a0There were seven facing colors that rotate between regiments, the 1st and 8th having the same facing colors. \u00a0The first regiment, pictured, has bright blue facings.<\/p>\n

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Today's Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chris has been trying to convince folks to recreate their armies in 10mm for use with some variant of Look, Sarge<\/em>. \u00a0As part of his campaign, he gave me a regiment and a couple of guns to paint. \u00a0This weekend, I painted them and mounted them.<\/p>\n

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A closeup of the first regiment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notice that the drummer’s colors are reverses, his coat being the facing color of the rest of the regiment. \u00a0There are 21 regiments in the Bergdorfreuthenheim army, 14 line and 7 light. \u00a0The facing colors are as follows:<\/p>\n