10 Desert Island Books

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I don't actually think I've read that one.
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I have, it was in my library until the big burning.
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The front cover are Spencer Smith ACW figures. I wonder who has some of them ?
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Mark I’ve got hundreds of them. I think Spencer Smiths should be plastic really but I did bizarrely get a large lot of the metals at an extremely good price from Ian Hinds (that’s the bizarre bit). Of course they have sat in boxes for four or five years and I’ve painted about 30 of them.
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Vintage Wargaming wrote: Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:17 pm Mark I’ve got hundreds of them. I think Spencer Smiths should be plastic really but I did bizarrely get a large lot of the metals at an extremely good price from Ian Hinds (that’s the bizarre bit). Of course they have sat in boxes for four or five years and I’ve painted about 30 of them.
At least with the metals you can file them into a half decent shape. The flash on the plastics, even in the 70s, was a proper pain in the............

So, you have metal SSM ACW stuff do you?

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You could say that. I’d have to find them to work out what but it’s a lot.
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Sticking with the AWI. Tremendous artwork. None better for this period

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I have this signed Don Troiani print hanging in my hobby room. I used his ACW book as a painting reference as his research into the subject is thorough.

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Pity the man himself is a twat.
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Where would you put him on the Kiley Scale, from 1-10 with 10 being "the full Kevin"?
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