Jacobite Rebellion paper minis from Wargames Illustrated
Apr 30, 2015 9:55:49 GMT -9
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Post by wyvern on Apr 30, 2015 9:55:49 GMT -9
The 2015 May issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine, number 331, has a two-page spread of good-looking 28mm Jacobite Rebellion paper minis suitable for wargaming, created by Peter Dennis. There's also an accompanying article and a set of basic wargame rules to use with them. You could buy a copy of the magazine and scan or copy the relevant pages, but there's also a free downloadable zip file available via this page of the WI website: wargamesillustrated.co.uk/paper-soldiers-by-peter-dennis/ - click on the link and the file automatically downloads. It is 53.3 MB however, and took a little while to download for me (could be just my system's having a lazy day though...).
The zip file contains a pair of high-res JPEGs of the two army figurine pages, and from a quick check, I'd think you could easily increase the scale to 54mm or larger without losing clarity (on-screen at least - haven't tried a print yet), or of course, reduce them to 15mm, 10mm or smaller. The originals seem to have been done as watercolours, so there is a degree of bleeding into the background paper as you zoom in, but I doubt much of that will show up on most printouts at 28mm/30mm scale.
The WI article also had three paper soldier website addresses, recommended as "some of the best ones we have found". However, one seemed to have nothing to do with paper soldiers at all (it's a wargame rules site). Another was to a largely moribund forum which seemed to have some modern/alternative modern/sci-fi items, but you've got to hunt around for them, plus quite a few seem to have been removed (breach of copyright hints in some of the postings), and I rather lost interest (given these aren't really my fields of interest). The third was to the homepage for the 1/32 scale Walkerloo Napoleonic figures available on Wargames Vault - here, should you need a link: www.wargamevault.com/browse/pub/2986/Walkerloo-Toy-Soldiers.
So, my impression is maybe the WI researchers should have looked a little harder!
[EDIT 2016 December 27: I see the original link to download these is no longer working, but by hunting around on the Wargames Illustrated website, I found it does still exist, here:
wargamesillustrated.net/paper-soldiers-by-peter-dennis/ ]
The zip file contains a pair of high-res JPEGs of the two army figurine pages, and from a quick check, I'd think you could easily increase the scale to 54mm or larger without losing clarity (on-screen at least - haven't tried a print yet), or of course, reduce them to 15mm, 10mm or smaller. The originals seem to have been done as watercolours, so there is a degree of bleeding into the background paper as you zoom in, but I doubt much of that will show up on most printouts at 28mm/30mm scale.
The WI article also had three paper soldier website addresses, recommended as "some of the best ones we have found". However, one seemed to have nothing to do with paper soldiers at all (it's a wargame rules site). Another was to a largely moribund forum which seemed to have some modern/alternative modern/sci-fi items, but you've got to hunt around for them, plus quite a few seem to have been removed (breach of copyright hints in some of the postings), and I rather lost interest (given these aren't really my fields of interest). The third was to the homepage for the 1/32 scale Walkerloo Napoleonic figures available on Wargames Vault - here, should you need a link: www.wargamevault.com/browse/pub/2986/Walkerloo-Toy-Soldiers.
So, my impression is maybe the WI researchers should have looked a little harder!
[EDIT 2016 December 27: I see the original link to download these is no longer working, but by hunting around on the Wargames Illustrated website, I found it does still exist, here:
wargamesillustrated.net/paper-soldiers-by-peter-dennis/ ]