I took a little break from my endless marching men to paint some casualty markers. British Grenadier counts casualties by figure rather than stand, and most of my stands have four men on them, so I needed a way to indicate how many figures on a stand are casualties. I settled on square bases with the number of casualties written on each side.
The figures are Perry Miniatures, from pack AW46 "American Casualties." I tried to have a correctly uniformed casualty for each of my units. The bases are from Litko, and the numbers were written with a gold scrapbooking pen.
They look excellent! I went for triangles for my 15mm ones but I like your idea of a casualty marker for every unit so may put together a few more.
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Andy
I'll be doing the same thing,but in a triangle numbered 1-3 with a base being removed on a forth causality.
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Christopher
I had thought of doing a triangle, but I'll have some six figure bases as well, and this will keep me from having to add a second marker too early.
ReplyDeleteYes,I'll have a few 6 man bases myself,but far more 4 man bases so I prefer the triangle.(I'm modeling both my armies on Guilford Courthouse from the BG rulebook).
ReplyDeleteIt really isn't important as long as your happy and your markers look nice.
Make sure and right up a battle report on your armies exploits.:-)
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Christopher
YES!! I am SO happy that there are other painters and collectors out there who make sure they have appropriately dressed casualties for their units!
ReplyDeleteVery nice, as always... Scott, I am a huge, huge fan of your work.
Once again great work Scott - a good idea nicely done too. I tried it with my Franco-Prussian War French (2nd Empire) with Foundry figures - the idea being one for each bttn sized unit but ran out of appropriate figures - not enough variety.
ReplyDeleteStill, as you have shown, you can 'jazz' them up a little as casualty vignettes - I think the nice variety and beautiful sculpting work of the Perry's doesn't hurt either!
Cheers, Brad
I never even thought of numbering the sides of the casualty markers.Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThanks for kicking me up one higher on the food chain!
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Thomas
I might just do a few of these for Crossfire WW2 wargaming. I would mark them no fire, ground hugging, pinned, and suppressed. Great idea
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