What are people buying?

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Especially when nobody's looking.

[RMD]

The Memsahib has been trying to find all three volumes of John H Gill's '1809: Thunder on the Danube' for me for Chrimbo. However, while she can find new, hardback copies of Vols 1 & 2 for £26-£30, Vol 3 only seems to exist for in excess of £200!!!

She doesn't love me that much...

[grizzlymc]

Understandable really.

[Purple]

Often free from round the back of Carpet Warehouse.

Or just get a Stanley knife and cut out any bits that are usually hidden by furniture in your house.
Nobody is going to notice until you get a new sofa or something.

[Paul]

I've just taken delivery of a Cigar Box Battlemat too. It is the third Battlemat that I have bought recently, all from different manufacturers.
Like GM says, North Star do not keep them in stock but order them from the States once a month. Having spoken to their customer services last week I was told that they were just sending the last order in that would arrive before Christmas.
The mat itself is lovely, as said above it is a light felt material which drapes very well and looks quite natural laid over terrain pieces. It's well finished and I have no qualms about the quality. I went for the Grassland 2 design which looked great on the 'page' but is a bit too dark in the 'flesh' for my taste.

The other mats I have bought were from Deep Cut (Via Big Red Bat) and Tiny UK. Both of these were on lightweight cloth, which I don't like as much as much as the felt. However, I think the actual printed designs on those are better than the CBM one. The cloth is a bit stiffer than the felt (Deep Cuts really noticeably so), which means I don't find that it drapes as well.

To my eye by far and away the best design and printing is the Tiny UK mat, I bought the Arid with green patches one. I was a bit disappointed though that Tiny supply it with a raw cut and fraying edge which made it feel like a lower quality product.
The Tiny and CBM mats were around the same price with Deep Cut coming in cheaper.

I am still in the market for a smaller cobble effect one and may well go for Deep Cut as they offer quite good graphics and the potential of Mouse Mat type backing which for a flat area for laying on buildings would be the best bet..

[levied troop]

I’ve actually got that Deep Cut cobble one and it is very good. And it was the Tiny Mat Arid Green I was thinking of, although with your comment on the edges I may opt for the mouse mat material or Tinys rubber backed equivalent (which I think I prefer anyway).

[Paul]

The Arid green design looks great, I can't post photos at the moment as I am working off a 0.1 MB/s Internet with very high latency

[goat major]

you need to ask Andy to build a fax interface for the forum

[levied troop]

I was torn between these two:


http://www.tinywargames.co.uk/arid
(Arid Green at the bottom)
or
http://www.deepcutstudio.com/product/wa ... at-steppe/

as usable for Texas or Sicily. I think the Arid Green looks better?

[Paul]

I think it's the Steppe I have from Deep Cut (with 4" grid for various games) and i'd probably say the Tiny one is better for Texas not sure if Sicilly is a bit greener though. As before though i'd go for the Tiny one as in my, very very 'umble opinion, the graphic is better.