What are people buying?

[Essex Boy]

So organised! Very impressive.

Iain

[tim.w]

My most recent purchases have been STL files - somewhat guiltily, I blame Jeremy...



There are speeders to go with these as well...

STL files for PzIV & V.



The Lees and Stuarts are for XIV army, because I couldn't resist the Perry figures. Then there are the Empress Aussies in Vietnam, which have led to me printing M113 and Hueys. And finally...



I also picked up another Rubicon Tiger II for a Christmas Challenge.

So 2023 looks like being the year of the Star Wars Chain of Command, First World War and Vietnam.

Thats a nice haul. I have a batch of Empress Vietnam Marines and they're very nice. Not made it onto the "doing" list of the kanban yet.

[tim.w]

So how old is the Bovril then, if I may make so bold? (The Baroness doesn't like me mentioning it, but ours is at least 10, possibly older. Goes back to her last visit to see her family in Glasgow.)

Bought yesterday, partly for the benefit of my work wife who is from Kentucky and a Beef Tea virgin.

[Jeremy]

Busy with the 74-Z Speeder bikes Doug was referring to

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Not quite up to the standards of Doug's WW1 haul, but last night I availed myself of a North Star 12% discount on:

- a 1917-18 British/Dominion platoon with Vickers, artillery crew for all the extra gunners etc, extra section of marching men (mopper uppers) and two packs of casualties for the shock markers; and

- a 1918 Stosstruppen zug, including half-a-dozen Bergman SMGs (all to be done up in Bavarian trim, natch), supported by a Maxim, a granatenwerfer, a flamethrower team, a 1.37 cm A/T rifle, a 3.7cm A/T gun, and an artillery crew.

Rules will be one or both of "Through the Mud and the Blood" and "CoCing up the Mud and the Blood"; scenarios will initially be later Kaiserschlact and second half of the Hundred Days (so no trenches to start with).

I also discovered (which saved me a lot of duplication for a German "vanilla" infantry zug) that the camo-patterned helmets supposedly worn by the Stosstruppen, actually weren't. Not officially issued until at least July 1918, and even then worn primarily by the artillery, as only they had the time and the paint to do it, they were rare as rocking horse doo-dah. Except in dodgy, post-war antique shops apparently.....

[DougM]

Doh, now you've spoiled my imaginary picture of what I want the Boche to look like. I will pretend i didn't read that and crack on anyway. Too iconic not to be used to break up the sea of field grey.

Today some more stuff arrived, Great Escape Games Norwegian Platoon, some brick debris piles, and the two Paul Hicks charity sculpts. Also, more resin.

[Penda]

A native American wigwam and a Colonial village well in Grand Manner's pre-retirement raw resin sale. Ordered on Wednesday evening, delivered on Sunday morning. The usual excellent service.

[FreddBloggs]

Nothing since, September I think, possibly earlier.

[DougM]

Nothing since, September I think, possibly earlier.

Bloody hell... are you really a wargamer if you don't buy stuff?

[Tim Hall]

First published in 1974, my birth year! Hopefully I'll get chance to enjoy over a cup of bovine juice at some point.

Blooming youngsters. I bought that when it came out, and then a few years later a so called friend nicked it.