Purchases & Delivery

Sunday 14th January 2018 - Halifax

Another visit to Halifax Modellers World - my two purchases:

Strelets M127 - Arab Foot Rebels

A new period that I am investigating.  Lawrence of Arabia and all that in WW1. 
PSR ref: http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/FirstLook.aspx?id=2581

Some of the figures are suitable for earlier 'colonial' periods such as the Rif Wars.  Might even be able to make up a force of arab slavers.  Need to make a list of late 19th / early 20C conflicts.

HaT 8098 - Napoleonic British sailors and Marines
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=644
A quick look at the PSR review made me think that the marines could be used for the Haitian fight.  What I didn't expect was so many ships' cannon and crew (really - 8 per gun!!!).

Thinking a bit more I remembered that I had once considered making a Pirate force for DBA-RRR.   Orion, Mars and LW make pirate sets with the former providing the best figures.  If I ever see any I will purchase. Until then  half this box is destined for the storage crate.

Monday 15th January 2018 - WDW

DBM: Hsi-Hsia v Sung Chinese - lots of Bw(X)/(O) - our central command broke on the last bound.
Lion Rampant - Siege of Wakefield (again) - seems to have been a better game this time with holes in three walls.


Wednesday 17th January 2018

This slim volume finally turned up from Wordery - it was ordered before xmas - not good service.  Only features French & British troops - no Ottomans!


Thursday 18th January 2018

Found an alternative DBR Buccaneer list and started to convert it to DBA-RRR.  So far it splits into 2 x English, 2 x French & 1 x Dutch.  Will return to this subject later (hopefully next week).