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Curt Campbell, Canadian gamer, has embarked on a project he’s calling ‘The Great War in Greyscale’ – painting up Great War 28mm figures in shades of grey<\/a>, rather than colour, the better to reproduce the feel of period photographs. A very novel and ambitious project, we’re following this with interest. This week he’s posted black and white versions of some of our Belgian dogcarts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Curt Campbell, Canadian gamer, has embarked on a project he’s calling ‘The Great War in Greyscale’ – painting up Great War 28mm figures in shades of grey, rather than colour, the better to reproduce the feel of period photographs. 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