Last time at Salute Nick Dorrell and I brought the Poltava 1709 game and we had a blast on a 16 feet table and even came back home with an award (more about that here) – this year we will only bring a normal sized 6 feet table. However the loss of width we more than adequately gain in the depth of this project. This time we will bring armies created not by sweat and frustration like mine usually are, but instead two armies that was created by over 50 painters during the recent lock down – a true community effort and we would like show these armies. We have further put these into an Imagination setting where we have the Kingdom of Denswe in a war against the Tsardom of Siarus.

We presented the project at the Virtual Joy of Six in 2021 and will bring the armies to be displayed at the Joy of Six in July (not as a game but for our painters and others to get an opportunity to have a look at it in all its glory).

The idea is summarised above, but there are a fair few previous blog posts covering the project that you might want to check out.

More here:

Lund 1676 and the Charity Project at Virtual Joy of Six 2021 on 4th July

6mm Charity Painting Update no 3

6mm Charity Painting Update no 2

6mm Charity Painting Update no 3

Community effort to jointly paint some 6mm armies for fun and charity!

And here a presentation of the two armies.

6mm Charity Fun – an overview of the Two Armies (first draft)

Apart from the armies that were gifted by Baccus (link to them here) and sent to each painter, we have been given a wargames mat from Geek Villain (link to their webpage here) – they produce some amazing mats (I have 5 myself), and Nick will include a copy of his Twilight of the Sun King to the eventual winner of the armies, once we have finalised how we will “get rid” off the project.

However, we would like to include more and ideally the eventual winner will be given sufficient stuff to fold out the mat, put on the terrain and play with the armies. I guess we could throw in stuff we have lying around at home, but if you fancy and find the idea interesting for your business to get some small 6mm exposure and Spreading the Joy of Six then let us know and we might even tell people about it, we would be looking for (with the prefix – suitable for 6mm scale, or size):

1. Road
2. River
3. Hills
4. Houses / Churches / Wind mills
5. Trees
6. Hedges
7. Any other idea that might fit…

Happy to paint them up/base things to fit the overall look. If you are interested just contact us through the blog.

Anyway, looking forward to see you at Salute if you are going to the show, otherwise at Joy of Six (but just bringing the armies).

/ All the best