A random inspiration while perusing a manufacturer's website was making a small 28mm skirmish force of Snow White and the Eight Dwarves. This was then followed by pondering what other Disney Princesses could be used.
Elsa for Frozen was front of mind as my grand daughter is infatuated with her. Then I thought of Cinderella and a collection of "mouseketeers" with a Fairy Godmother sorceress. Mulan and her warriors and a dragon. Then came the Princess and the Frog as I already had a frog army for my 40k Dangerous Fauna.
A purchase of 15 snowmen was quickly made from Aliexpress for $10 and I already had some penguins with SMG so Elsa's force was complete.
However, unusually for me, I thought "What and when would I use these for?" Having no answer I rationally decided that while these would be fun little projects they were not needed when there were already a lot of other projects waiting for my time.
I searched for an Elsa so the snowmen would not go to waste and found her plus a friend in a packet of two resin elf sorceress. The second one was suitable for the Princess and the Frog so another $12 later I was closing out the purchasing for this butterfly project.
Here are the pictures.
Elsa and her gang.
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| Inspiration from Disney's version |
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| My Elsa interpretation |
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| Elsa and some friends... sending a cold front to someone |
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| Elsa and more friends |
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| Elsa's heavy hitters "Reservoir Penguins" * |
The Princess and the Frog
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| Inspiration from Disney |
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| My version with her two froggy princes |
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| The Princess sends out her horde of frogs. They fear no one except the French. |
Well, all in all I got out of that with little expense in either time or money.
This got me thinking about all the projects half done that I have waiting in various boxes. I really do need to concentrate on some of these so the Napoleonic British are going on hold** until I sort everything out and make a plan.
* "Reservoir Penguins" - stolen from Mr. Tarantino's film Reservoir Dogs whose characters hid their identities under colourful names.
** I am sure many of you are thinking that I am just increasing the number of unfinished projects and so making things worse, and, that's a good point.
See you next time with something a bit more rational - we hope.
In answer to the question " what will I use these for" why not "attempting to get my grand daughter interested in wargaming "....stranger things have happened!
ReplyDeleteWhat a load of fun. the nice thing about these sort of figures is that it makes it easier for non-wargamers to understand the simple joy that we get from our toys.
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