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Shahbahraz wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 2:18 pm
goat major wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 1:24 pm
FreddBloggs wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 1:21 pm Dagenham Girl pipers
Thats no way to refer to the Gateway Cavalry
From what I've been told, the Dagenham Girl Pipers would put up a better fight.
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Essex Boy wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 1:17 pm Some of you deliberately try to provoke a 'git' response. I will therefore continue to keep the name of the 'Total Git' person of the year to myself.
You all know that as a the lowly half twin I am on occasion allowed by my esteemed bro to spring to his defence and with malice and venom spew out the occasional GIT :EB: from my portion of the family's Git Pile on his behalf

These of course are to be regarded as lesser Gits and are less honourific and have less impact than those emanating from the GiT Giver himself
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The re-flagging and re-basing of my mate's old Russian Wellingtonic collection (which he left with me 14 years ago, when he emigrated to NZ) is progressing well. He'd used a horrible artists' varnish which has browned the figures to a certain extent, but turned his paper flags a very dark and murky brown. A load of bright, new flags has smartened them up a treat. That's the infantry and artillery done, so on to the cavalry...

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Flags can make or break your impression of an army. Your mate used the same toolbox storage method of my old man. I am slowly reboxing his troops a division at a time in archive boxes to make them easier to transport, pack and unpack.
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grizzlymc wrote: Sat May 30, 2020 4:56 am Flags can make or break your impression of an army. Your mate used the same toolbox storage method of my old man. I am slowly reboxing his troops a division at a time in archive boxes to make them easier to transport, pack and unpack.
All my Napoleonics, SYW, VBCW and a lot of my Cold War stuff lives in steel toolboxes. I find them a FAR better option for storage and transportation than any other method (when you've stuck magnetic vinyl under each base, that is). All my stuff would be in steel toolboxes if I could still buy them.
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Shame you are on the other side of the planet, I'm making three of them obsolete ATM.
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I'm with him on steel toolboxes. I love them, but sadly impossible to find these days. All figures on magnetized bases, sturdy, convenient size. Great things.
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Steel toolboxes for the retro chic !
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Shahbahraz wrote: Sat May 30, 2020 9:07 am I'm with him on steel toolboxes. I love them, but sadly impossible to find these days. All figures on magnetized bases, sturdy, convenient size. Great things.
The best ones always came from the RAF, as part of armoury stores (for the secure storage and transportation of rifle bolts and toolkits). They would periodically be written off inventories and disposed of in the approved manner... Some of them even managed to touch the bottom of the skip before being re-purposed... :thumbs:
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