I bought "The War That Made America" too, I'd recommend it highly to anyone who hasn't seen it yet. Must admit, I'd forgotten about "Unconquered" and "Allegheny Uprising", I'll have to look through my old video tapes as I think I have them, but not seen them for a long time. I bought a couple of the old TV series of "North West Passage" discs (remember seeing a couple of episodes when I was a kid) - quite corny and hasn't aged well, but fun all the same. George Washington's First War and When the Forest Ran Red I hadn't come across at all, but I've added them to my wish list - thanks for the link :mental: Thanks for comment on the figures BTW. - Waffle on all you can as far as I'm concerned. Hi Duck Crusader - re getting old - tell me about it :hmm: I wasn't trying to wind you up over the AWI/FIW thing though ;) , film wise it falls into the same genre of pioneers beset by Indians. Love John Ford's films - my wife says she knows whenever I've got "man-flu", out comes She Wore a Yellow Ribon, The Searchers, Fort Apache, etc., etc. Oh did I mention: www.gallopingmajorwargames.com

There was an interesting Channel 4 series in the UK a few years back about Scots-Irish emigrants called 'God's Frontiersmen' http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/18791 and http://www.biblioireland.com/793/gods-frontiersmen-the-scots-irish-epic/ I enjoyed the Ch4 series on the English Civil War and the associated book of the series was excellent imho. I would expect the same of the book for God's Frontiersmen. The series highlighted the role played by impoverished colonists in 'settling' the American frontier largely from their point of view -diaries, letters etc. For those of you out there interested in digging deeper. I think there's probably potential scenario ideas there to be uncovered... Truth is after all stranger than fiction

Captain Blood has sent me some pics of a couple of our Mohawk he's painted, in between a couple of Redoubt Woodland Indians for size comparison. I've also put up some of his other pics of these models on the new Gallery page we've added to the website. Superb painting, and a nice contrast with my own treatment, more pics of these figures painted by Captain Blood on: http://www.gallopingmajorwargames.com/page8.htm www.gallopingmajorwargames.com

Best get those Smurfs hidden or Gungnir, our Dutch porn king, will be posting some doctored photos of his own....... They do seem to merge in very well with the Redoubt guys, don't they? The Redoubt Indians were done by a different sculptor from the chap who is doing the European troops for them now, and IMO they were much thinner and better proportioned. You should get your chap to paint up a couple of the Conquest Indians for a further comparison, as I think they are about the same size (IIRC, the Perry and Old Glory ones would be noticeably smaller).

Rather nice. But I'm very partial to Captain Blood's painting style anyway. Actually, the Conquest Indians are about the same size and the same heft as their Perry counterparts : if anything, they're even a tad slimmer.

Sweet... Must not start another project, must not start another project...

Oh, go on, DC, you know you want to ;)

Actually, you're dead right. But I'm knocking off these Romans and Celts first darn it.

Too right. I heard someone on the radio the other day say that the only reason women are so good at multi-tasking is that they can't prioritise :D I would advise that you don't tell any woman this :beg:

Look out, she's spotted you mate. Be careful she's known to associate with wookies.

It's a complete myth that women can multi-task, as anyone who's ever stood in the queue behind a woman at a checkout till can testify....

Shop/talk/pack get husband to pay how much do you want them to do? :)

What I'm referring is either (a) the woman who thinks she can talk on her mobile phone and pay/pack at the same time (she can't) or (b) the woman who has to complete all her packing before she can take out her card (usually well hidden inside her bag - she hasn't thought to get it ready while queuing) and pay. If there are two queues, one with 2 women and the other with 4 men, the latter will be the quickest every time.