Excuse me if someone has mentioned the subject before, but I advise you (gently) to keep a Spares Box... I did it in 25/28MM back in other Century... it was a success and it always comes handy...

Just today I converted about 20 minis(In fact Prussian Dragoons 1870) redundant from the Heavy Brigade (Crimea)... mainly Command figures... Into 17th Lancers in Zululand (Proxies of proxies if you please!)... a matter of minutes really!... Will paint myself and put a pic of the result here in some days time. And I know Peter DOES the 17th lancers in the Colonial range... (Well any lancer Regiment with a paintjob)... so QED... never throw away anything... you never know when they will come handy!... Cheers.

It seems indeed not a bad thing to order perhaps a little bit more than you need. Not only if something gets damaged beyond repair, but also for the instance you mentioned! For my medieval project, I'll be ordering an additional spearmen pack and cavalry pack so that I have some leeway. It will allow me to create some commanders, retinue's, or knight orders if I want to expand into the Baron's wars or Northern Crusades for example.

Berggeit's approach is mine too!... and I thank him for saying so... a bit of surplus always helps (in 6mm sometimes a few bayonets get beyond repair in transit... they also did on the bigger scales mind!). It is sometimes incredible what you can find and use (sometimes months or years afterwards!) in the Spares Box... but to have a surplus you need to order such a little bit "more" andthat it is really affordable in God's Own Scale. Thanks for commenting!. Interesting Post.

Hereby... straight from my own "spares bos"... ZuluWars 17th lancers in the making using Prussian 1870 standarbearers surplus of my Crimean Heavy Brigade Proxies...

So, there you have them. Finished excepting basing. Will do and show... next days.

I usually have a stack of spares - sometimes only one or two per figure type. I have a couple of barbarian units where I've thrown in one that doesn't really belong to mix things up - 6mm is very forgiving for this. As my spares box fills up I have been thinking about creating one or two units of very irregular-looking barbarians all in different poses and using a very varied mixture of captured equipment. It would look a bit like some of the 28mm armies I see at the club, but in miniature.   

I used to have a spares box too when doing 25mms - full of shields, spears, heads and other things.

Today at 6mm I have quite a few left over figures which sometimes get recruited (as proxies - not too difficult for Ancients) into other armies or provide an inspiration for new armies. But there is a danger with this approach in that about 4 years ago I had 20+ left over Thracians and decided to start a Thracian army. The Thracians are now complete but I now have 30+ left over Thracians.......

Perhaps those 30 could be a start of a Greek army (a unit of them would fit very nicely)

I have 9 Greek armies already Mort - there are photographs of most of them in action on the Gallery section of the forum - which is where the original left overs came from when I had finished the Thessalians. 

David, I took a look in the gallery and just have a question.  The hex terrain squares do you mind if I ask where you got that from?  Figures and terrain really go we'll together the only thing missing is a 10th army ;-)