tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861229654080360536.post4945148275248562895..comments2024-03-25T18:56:22.992+11:00Comments on The Tactical Painter: Far East casualty figuresThe Tactical Painterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04980190745315043364noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861229654080360536.post-30501050039606792772020-05-27T07:43:36.213+10:002020-05-27T07:43:36.213+10:00I think they certainly fill a role with the AAR ph...I think they certainly fill a role with the AAR photos and help complete the narrative. It always felt a bit odd photographing a vacated piece of terrain where a figure had been, it told a story but not very effectively.The Tactical Painterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980190745315043364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861229654080360536.post-48883092338916446122020-05-27T07:41:22.960+10:002020-05-27T07:41:22.960+10:00Thanks Pat, glad you like them.Thanks Pat, glad you like them.The Tactical Painterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980190745315043364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861229654080360536.post-74568063131531396172020-05-27T07:40:52.212+10:002020-05-27T07:40:52.212+10:00Thanks Doug, I think for quick conversions they’ve...Thanks Doug, I think for quick conversions they’ve worked well.The Tactical Painterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980190745315043364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861229654080360536.post-60960906058016096792020-05-27T07:39:40.731+10:002020-05-27T07:39:40.731+10:00Unfortunately I’ve seen some awful casualtiy figur...Unfortunately I’ve seen some awful casualtiy figures with lots of blood and dismemberment. The sort of thing you might do when very young. The thing is, for all that, they don’t look even vaguely ‘realistic’, just rather tasteless. Looking at figures in any number of scales, including life size sculptures and it seems modelling death is very hard to do. I’m happy to keep it simple and focus on it being a narrative device that tracks the flow of action on the table.The Tactical Painterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980190745315043364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861229654080360536.post-72126891087609619902020-05-27T07:34:53.360+10:002020-05-27T07:34:53.360+10:00Indeed. I remember seeing Roy Dilley’s work in Air...Indeed. I remember seeing Roy Dilley’s work in Airfix Magazine, he did amazing conversions from all sorts of figures turning firemen or racing car it crew figures into everything from 8th army to French Voltigeurs. I’ve done it myself recently on a large scale with my Chinese platoon for WWII. You’re right, we can get more now than we ever could, but not quite everything it seems.The Tactical Painterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980190745315043364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861229654080360536.post-6253200228133628182020-05-26T19:38:34.916+10:002020-05-26T19:38:34.916+10:00Good looking and tasteful casualty figures, I agre...Good looking and tasteful casualty figures, I agree on the restraint approach, but they are still useful!<br />Best Iain caveadsum1471https://www.blogger.com/profile/02174163740406928172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861229654080360536.post-90066474638847382622020-05-25T20:45:37.835+10:002020-05-25T20:45:37.835+10:00Looks good Mark, they are the icing on the cake to...Looks good Mark, they are the icing on the cake to finishing off your wonderful collections.Pat Smith Silver Whistle Blog.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03002644138272247188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861229654080360536.post-49468300920425202292020-05-25T05:24:17.566+10:002020-05-25T05:24:17.566+10:00I think that looks terrific. The poses work, and a...I think that looks terrific. The poses work, and as you say, it's good to see where significant casualties have happened. Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13866756432233805848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861229654080360536.post-30542119511638117782020-05-25T04:46:07.419+10:002020-05-25T04:46:07.419+10:00I think casualty markers are fine as long as there...I think casualty markers are fine as long as there’s no blood. I prefer the sanitized version of wargaming and leave the horror of combat to the movies. 😀<br /><br />I played in an AWI game of Bunker Hill at a convention and whenever a soldier died the GM provided a casualty figure (just guys lying down in various poses, no gore) and I thought it was kinda cool to see where fighting had been the direst. Stewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00340930167419307092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861229654080360536.post-17188980580128018072020-05-25T00:10:19.316+10:002020-05-25T00:10:19.316+10:00Sorry But I have to laugh a little bit at your que...Sorry But I have to laugh a little bit at your quest for figures in this day and age where one could probably find an Aztec warrior in a British 1814 red coat! At least that is the way it seems to me who started in the hobby at a time when you could not even get drummers or men with flags and had to make them from infantrymen (Napoleonic wars). We had to modify French or British Infantry to get any other nation! So I think that THIS is the golden age of wargaming.<br />Stay safe, Stay healty!Dick Bryanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08243435682283381550noreply@blogger.com