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Re: What are people buying?

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:18 pm
by Vintage Wargaming
You might get away with only doing the top sides...

Re: What are people buying?

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:10 pm
by Shahbahraz
Just light blue, and they will look fine....

Re: What are people buying?

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 2:26 pm
by Buff Orpington
Did we agree that trading among ourselves doesn't count as a purchase on the grounds that the sum total of figures in our collection doesn’t change?

On that basis I haven't bought about 200 Colonials from young Tim.

Re: What are people buying?

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 2:36 pm
by grizzlymc
Not very impressive, not purchased painted or not?

Re: What are people buying?

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 5:46 pm
by Buff Orpington
Some painted, some primed, some shiny metal.

Re: What are people buying?

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 10:37 pm
by Tim Hall
BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: Mon Oct 05, 2020 1:45 pm
Buff Orpington wrote: Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:01 am Spot on
American Soldiers of the Revolution by Alan Kemp
The British Army in the American Revolution by Alan Kemp
£13.20 inc postage.
They really are very good - treasure them. He wrote a book on Yorktown for Almark as well - bit dated now, but still a sound read as a starter.
Good score Buff, those two are real gems, I used them a lot when painting my AWI collection. I have given them a place of honour in my Almark collection now. Despite not having the figures any more those are still worth a look every now and again. Mind you most of the Almark military books were top notch, as treasured as my Blandfords.

Re: What are people buying?

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 10:42 pm
by Tim Hall
Essex Boy wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 11:28 am I just need to break down Hotel Tim's aversion to 20mm and then Jacklex, here I come.

I'd take the easy option of getting Andy to buy some, but a man needs a challenge.
Ain't gonna happen big boy. The way my eyes are behaving lately I'm giving serious consideration to knocking 28mm on the head.

Re: What are people buying?

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:24 am
by tim.w
Tim Hall wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 10:42 pm
Essex Boy wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 11:28 am I just need to break down Hotel Tim's aversion to 20mm and then Jacklex, here I come.

I'd take the easy option of getting Andy to buy some, but a man needs a challenge.
Ain't gonna happen big boy. The way my eyes are behaving lately I'm giving serious consideration to knocking 28mm on the head.
Already tried Iain. The main pull for me is 50p a figure and a quid for mounted. Very tempted by either ACW or Russio-Japanese. I need more figure like another mouth to mop the sick from at the minute but having just got Charge or How to Play wargames my old skool mojo is whirring away.

Re: What are people buying?

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:44 am
by Vintage Wargaming
Would also recommend Mexican Adventure range. Lovely figures, interesting variety - Belgian and Egyptian infantry, FFL FFS, and you don't need many to get started. Separate backpacks for the French give you even more variety

Re: What are people buying?

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:08 am
by Essex Boy
Can someone please have a word with VW?

Whisky - HaT do some very nice artillery for the Russo-Japanese War.