Waddington's Battle of The Little Big Horn

 A few months back I spotted on a blog that someone had converted the famous board game into a full size wargame using Britains Deetail plastic figures.  I thought that was an interesting idea and was going to do the same, when I thought it could be done with the figures that come with the game.  The game only has a few figures, if correct, nine for the US and 12 for the Native Indians.  On a large table these numbers do not look very good, so I decided to multiply all force numbers by three.  I managed to obtain figures from my original set, plus some cheap purchases on line.  Unfortunately, I am a few short as some crumbled with the dreaded plastic rot.

The figures are fairly basic and poorly painted, but I thought they could be tarted up with a splash of paint. The figures are around 40mm tall and, given their age, most suffer from considerable paint loss:

The first thing I did was to attach all the figures and horses to bases, which were painted to match my wargaming mat.  The figures were painted using a combination of Speed Paints and normal Acrylics.  It took about four days to paint the lot. Here are the results:

Native Indian cavalry:

Custer's men in a hasty defensive position:

Native foot Indians emerging from the trees:

Not brilliant, but good enough to look OK on the table.  I am working on some tepees and a totem pole, as the board has a camp beyond.

Will is coming up on Sunday and I am hoping to play the full game as per the original rules, with some minor adjustments.