Welcome to a new period, well the return to an old one.
Like many gamers, I have a small pile of bits and pieces that may one be useful. They are those things gathering dust in the five corners of the games room and anywhere else they can be hidden away from prying eyes. The guilty parts in this case were two off cuts of MDF and some polystyrene, just waiting for some inspiration to become terrain. Inspiration finally came after I had finished off some fieldworks for my WWII desert forces, they would become trenches. Nothing wrong with that you can always use trenches, perhaps I might get onto building that Lace wars fortress I have always fancied.
No it was not to be. First I dug out some some old 15mm Minifigs and Irregulars that I had collected from previous explorations of this period. They weren't enough for an army but they had been a taste of the period. Finally last weekend there was little wars down here in Melbourne and the bloke from MikesMetalModels showed up with his Peter Pig figures. Now I did go there with plans to get a few packets of Peters figures, because I had never had any before. I will also freely admit that the figures I was planning to get would be either for WWI or the SCW, but no it would not be that simple.
The only figures he had on display were German WWII. Beautiful I say I can get some some novelty packets such as Germans surrendering, some Volksturm and a dug in Panther turret but just as I was preparing to hand over my money I looked down and asked innocently about some non-descript limps of resin sitting in plastic bags. Why they were British Mk IV tanks and were very pretty. This then led to an inquiry as to if he had brought some infantry with him, which were duly added to the growing pile.
Yet this is not an end to my tale of new love. At another stall there was Olympian games offering QRF at 50% and he had a German A7V tank and I had enough change in pocket for it.
Suddenly I have more figures and I am gluing the tanks together. This is my fourth attempt to get into this period. You think that I would have learnt my lesson by now, but no I can still be seduced by an unpainted figure.
Oh, I am a weak, weak man, I am a wargamer.
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