What are people buying?

[Penda]

One figure and acres of MDF buildings and bases, all for my Italian Wars project, at Claymore yesterday.

[Purple]

Cheeky Sunday morning raid on front rank for a big austrian gun and some random SYW bits.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

I need to buy some buses now and I have my eye on a bus depot.

I have some relatives in Northern Ireland who could help you there. How burnt do you want them?

What?

Oh, MODEL buses.....sorry, I don't think they do "shrinking". Grizz probably knows folk who can help with that, though.

[grizzlymc]

I was recently told that when the first missionaries came to the area I was working in, they were boiled in a pot and eaten. But their feet were inedible, so they kept them in the pot for months until eventually gave up. The leather boots were later found by Royal Papuan Police.

I think shrinking buses might be a boil too far.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Not a purchase as such (although I may reward him with some AWI books), but a Canadian fellow-wargamer now living in Japan has just sent me a box of 1:700 ships for my new "Coastal Patrol" project - or "Going Coastal" as I have re-named it. Contents include:-
- a box of two Z class German destroyers, which includes a Heinkel 111 and a Ju-52
- a box of two German U-boats (different types), which includes a sinking merchantman in the classic V position
- a box of RAF aircraft (at least four, all different types)
- a "D-Day Landings" package, which appears to contain two destroyers and two large landing ships
- best of all, two boxes of mixed MTB types (one German, one British, one US) with FOUR of each type in EACH box.

There was also a Wings of War WW1 German aircraft for me to pass on to Timmo.

Once made up, I can start learning the rules with two squadrons each of S-boats and Vosper MTBs, and can quickly move on to a scenario based on the famous German ambush of US forces practising a D-Day landing on the Devon coast.

[grizzlymc]

From memory, you need to outnumber the S boats, they were horribly well armed compared to British MTBs.

[Etranger]

From memory, you need to outnumber the S boats, they were horribly well armed compared to British MTBs.

True, up to a point but the S boats were also under orders to avoid fire fights with the somewhat aggressively minded RN, as they had fewer to go around & their primary function was to attack enemy merchant shipping rather than their escorts. A later dog boat (Fairmile D) was a match for just about anything the Germans had.

Note the 57mm guns on the forrard deck.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

I intend to obtain a few Fairmile MGBs as well, just to even things up a bit.

[grizzlymc]

A 57mm would cause a bit of damage.

Also, leaks on the MTBs cause them to settle and slow, they rely on planning. The German S and R boats were designed to cut through the water so damage tended to slow them more gradually.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Some wonderful colour schemes in that photo, Huw - thanks for putting it up.

Pardon me higgorance, but are an S-boat and an E-boat the same thing?