Lace Wars - in a 54 mm manner

William and Mary

When recreating the Campaigns of Uncle Toby there is a problem with figure availability in 54 mm.  












The 'Tradition' Marlburian figures here are pretty much spot on...

The delightful world of Funcken - a pleasure for nearly five decades

but building armies for the garden with this type of figure would prove to be ruinously expensive...

So the solution has been to use plastic figures from the general 'horse and musket' era.  As the spirit of the 'Shandean' game is one of pastoral pleasures - where old boots filled with pipe smoke can become cannons - then this seems to be perfectly in keeping.  

With thanks to Gary at the Guards Museum

'I wish', quoth my Uncle Toby, 'you had seen what prodigious armies we had in Flanders'