What are people buying?

[Etranger]

Norman Hunter from the Mercs set

Great minds think alike. Just needs a Leeds jersey...

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

A couple of 1:300 ship purchases from a guy called Stuart Dobson at Magpie Designer - a large(ish) freighter and a sinking RN armed trawler. Both are excellent models, albeit the air vents on the freighter are a bit fragile - that said, the guy sent me a set of 24 spares, plus a spare funnel, as he was not entirely happy with how they had come out (it's a big bit of resin so I can understand him not wanting to reprint it, although the original is actually pretty good). He mostly does 1:1800 and 1:2400 WW2 naval for those of you interested in that scale/genre.

In the same vein, I found three other sites for 1:300 vessels, two of which either beat Warlord comfortably on price, or on price AND accuracy (eg more common/useful variants of several German types). The first sells/makes available STL files (Doug has printed out a couple of these and they look good); the second is a UK manufacturer (not bad on price but you have to buy guns etc separately); the third is in the US so not really a goer at the moment with postal charges the way they are:-

https://www.wargaming3d.com/product-cat ... /ww2-1300/

https://www.syborg3dprinting.co.uk/3d-m ... -300-boats

https://www.seadoggamestudios.com/produ ... aval+300th

Added to which, my local gaming buddy is doing a Michaelangelo on the inside of his shed roof to deal with condensation, but otherwise "Der Bunker" is finished and we will have a 12' by 6' table on which to unleash our coastal forces (which I'm now beginning to think will actually accommodate slightly larger vessels than I had previously considered).

[Shahbahraz]

And I printed off the S30 and downloaded files for various Fairmiles, etc. Will have a go at printing these once I have finished off the components for an Aliens Colonial Marines APC, which is going to use up all my available stock of resin...

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Two of the flaws of the Cruel Seas "starter" set issued alongside the rules, were that (1) S-boats versus Vospers on their own is a very unequal fight, even using just the S-38+ series - you need one or two Fairmiles in the mix to give The Andrew a chance; and (2) the standard S-boat tactic, even before it acquired more substantial opponents, was to dash in, fire its torpedoes, turn tail and bugger off - very often not even using its rear-facing armament to avoid giving away its positions. Neither of those two options gives much of a game.....

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[tim.w]

Not bought but being sent free from my go-to internet guy for 1/32 scale toy soldiers. A Soviet officer from the very rare Esci 1/35 sets, which are exactly the same size wise to Airfix 1/32. He'll go nicely with my Airfix.

[Peeler]

Has no one bought anything for over a week?

Today, I met a well dodgy geezer in a car park, in the open, with good all round viewing capability, and I bought some polystyrene hexes from him. I say bought. Once I had them in my car, I tried to outrun & lose him round Whitby, but he caught up & forced me to get hard cash for him from an ATM. Some of the hex looked very familiar.

[Ilkley Old School]

Are these the old hex terrain made by PMC ?

[Vintage Wargaming]

You can buy the ones you sold me back if you want to

[Paul]

I tried to outrun & lose him round Whitby, but he caught up...

Why does this sound like it just needs some buxom wenches to be a bit "Benny Hill"?

[goat major]

Peeler’s fairly buxom..