The Loose Association of Wargamers

valleyboy wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 9:26 pm Just bought a few more book in the Naval & Military Press Sale

Damn your eyes sir!
I've just sold one book......now i've bought three more

That'll teach you... selling books? A slippery slope, next thing you know, you'll be selling figures, and where will that end, I ask you? No books, no figures and no wargames, that's where!

£2 in a National Trust second hand bookshop at Attingham.

He's a top class writer.

damn good curry.

We're having Indian tonight. Im thinking Butter chicken tikka.

I took the day off sick with a chest cold (an occupational hazard). I've just had the pleasant surprise of the postman delivering me a package from North Star, my Stargrave Nickstarter, ordered more or less on the spur of the moment on it's last day. Two weeks later to Oz is good going.

That's me (& the cat, busily chasing the foam peanut packing) entertained for the rest of the day!

There's a bit of a 'Not Blakes Seven' vibe to the troopers too, which is nice, lots of alternative heads and weapons, although only standing poses. Crew and Mercenary sprues are more assorted, as one would expect.

There are alien heads etc on the sprues but it might be a bit of a challenge to make them not of the 'heads, two arms, two legs' man in a rubber suit look beloved of TV sci-fi, but that's part of the appeal. They should be easy enough to cross kit to other plastic figures too, (says he, remembering a sprue of Warlord Ashgari sitting in the pile).

So that's 70 plastic figures and another half dozen metal ones to add to the pile. Fortunately I've got some reasonably scale agnostic scenery to use with them too.

Norman Hunter from the Mercs set


I bought a bunch of space ships from The Works and I'm attempting to re use the packaging as landing pads.

I reckon the spaceships look brilliant. Though I would be repainting as I prefer my spaceships more Nostromo than that. The front two especially look like ground landers.

And I found stl files to print an 'Aliens' style APC...