How Do You Find And Use Inexpensive Scale Models For Wargames?
• Decide where you are going to play the game. This style of gaming needs a large level space which will be undisturbed for the duration of the game. • Resolve not to be worried by the phrase “Toy Soldiers”. The models which are sold as toys can be quite accurate in scale, and protesting isn’t going to do much good anyway. Besides, they’re cheap. • Go to a toy store and look at what they have. You’re looking for sets of plastic figures, about an inch high, rather than much more expensive products such as Warhammer (which is otherwise a good start}. Each set will have a mix of models of a particular sort, and you need two different packs, based on the same history and from opposing sides. Yes, it helps to know a little history. • A simple example is the American Civil War, for which is is fairly easy to find a useful range of figures for both sides. For each side, start with two packs on Infantry (troops on foot), one of Cavalry (troops on horses), and one artillery piece (a cannon with
