Monday, 6 October 2025

Going the full Featherstone !


Having got enough figures painted up for a game I set the table up . One of the problems when playing Old School is the number of individual figures to be moved . Don Featherstone suggests using cardboard templates with a few figures on them for the first few moves till they start shooting or being shot at .


I was thinking on this when I noticed one of my neighbours had a skip in his driveway (some building project I think ?) , Now I can never pass a skip without peering into it for anything useful , there is of course usually rubbish , however in this one I noticed a couple of pieces of wood that might be useful ! . My neighbour said I could have anything I wanted - so I took them home , cut them to size and painted them .


Here we have one in action , when they get near the enemy I will transfer the full unit to the tabletop.


And one being used for a unit of French Hussars . Having got this sorted the battle report will be appearing next .









 

10 comments:

  1. Clever way to avoid moving all those individual figures.

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  2. Great idea Tony! They are so useful! I love to see trash turned into treasure! Very well done!

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  3. Always worth a nose around in a skip Tony
    Your tabletop is looking wonderfully Old School. I'm looking forward to the first battle report.

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  4. I too like to keep to singleton figures, in my case for Brig Young's Charge rules and Spencer Smith figures. I found moving 60-80 strong units was a real pain so I got some bespoke steel movement trays (8 foot or 4 mounted) made and put magnets under the figures.
    They're on my blog at:
    https://cabinettewars.blogspot.com/2025/03/covert-sabots-old-school-basing-with-my.html

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    1. Single figures are very O.S. but as you say a pain to move.

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  5. Looking forward to the battle report! Lovely figures and tabletop...spot on for this era of gaming!

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