What are people buying?

[Etranger]

Oops, I seem to have 'accidentally acquired' a new, still wrapped, 15mm Russian SYW army from Eureka for around 60% of retail. They'll end up in the Nuclear Fallout Bunker for now - there's enough lead lining the walls to keep a lot of radiation out!

(and I've just realised that is a great excuse to buy figures given current events....)

[RMD]

Oops, I seem to have 'accidentally acquired' a new, still wrapped, 15mm Russian SYW army from Eureka for around 60% of retail. They'll end up in the Nuclear Fallout Bunker for now - there's enough lead lining the walls to keep a lot of radiation out!

(and I've just realised that is a great excuse to buy figures given current events....)

It happens. Only today, parcels arrived here from Timecast, Eureka and Helion Books. Who knows why they come...?

[DougM]

some bargain Minoans, a mix of various makes from some dodgy bloke on LAF to add to my existing unpainted Trojan War stash.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Two nice little eBay wins - both 2nd Generation 15mm ECW/TYW Minifigs and both at well under the going rate, about £20 + postage for around 200 figures, all long OOP. Even more splendidly, one of them replaced some figures I missed out on around Xmas (musketeers in morion, up there with rocking horse turds in terms of rarity) when I got sniped despite having placed a well-OTT bid to ensure that that didn't happen.

Having started the year with good intentions to reduce the lead mountain by (a) actually painting some of it, and (b) not buying any more, I managed to make it through 1/6 of the year unscathed, before the above activity opened the flood gates. Having tentatively Googled "15mm Minifigs" I managed to find several packs - 10 in fact - on the Noble Knight website, all very rare troop types. All(?) I have to do now is persuade their website to stop rejecting the address of a US contact ("the seller does not deliver to that address") who is coming over to the UK next month and give me the discount and free postage for which the size of my order qualifies.....

[tim.w]

Some Geek Gaming ready mixed base scatter. Bought some at Vappa to try and its great so ordered two more bags and some scenic glue which was cheaper than the woodland scenics glue I usually use though it lasts so long it usually dries up before I've used it.

[DougM]

More bases... this 3d printing lark saves a fortune - which I now spend on bases for all the stuff I 3d print. Now, how much does a laser cutter cost?

[Paul]

Some Geek Gaming ready mixed base scatter. Bought some at Vappa to try and its great so ordered two more bags and some scenic glue which was cheaper than the woodland scenics glue I usually use though it lasts so long it usually dries up before I've used it.

Geek Gaming is my "go to" for scenic stuff. The base ready is very good and comes is so many varieties it's daft not to

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Problem with Noble Knight resolved and rare/OOP Minifigs on their way to a US contact.

[Etranger]

I also somehow acquired the new 18mm Mercians from Wiglaf Miniatures via Northstar. https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.p ... 306&page=1 Gorgeous little sculptures from Mark Copplestone for Dan Mersey's boutique company. They're a bit bigger that the Peter Pig Vikings that I already possess but will be acceptable on the same table. (So that means that it's NOT a new period!! ). I'm looking forward to the other promised 'factions' (tribes? bands? clans? kingdoms?).

Dan has written some suitable rules for the period too. https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=16122

[tim.w]

Some RSM cossacks and some PSC Soviet infantry. Which are more difficult to get these days, seems like they've stopped producing them. Not available directly.