415 - Great News from the Plastic Soldier Company!

Yup,

I emailed them months ago to ask about this, and they said it was on its way, but it's great to know that in the pipeline for us Brits is nothing other than...

15mm Universal Carriers!

Hooray!

Plus, of course, a bunch of other stuff for other, more fashionable armies, like 88mm guns with tractors and Panzergrendiers.

 

That's right, those brilliant, brilliant folks over at the Plastic Soldier Company have decided to make cheaply available one of the most pleasingly ubiquitous of all WW2 vehicles...in fact, one could quite reasonably call it 'universal'!

Here's to recce fun in all theatres, eh?

- Drax

414 Drax and the Infantile Colour Wheel

Hullo! For those of you who've never met me, please trust me when I say I am genuinely rubbish with colour. Truly.

Luckily I now have technology on my side: this morning, Mrs Drax was showing No.1 Daughter (aged 4) a basic colour wheel:

No.1 Daughter (aged 4) now has a far better understanding than me.

IN HOBBY NEWS...

Three three-hour painting sessions mean that I've now finished all but two of Zzzzzzz's chaos minion! Huzzah! Half term with luck should prove sufficient for me to finish the whole lot of 'em...then my delayed gratification reward will beckon!

Watch this space.

COMING SOON...

Breaking News that broke three days ago and a beach that's no longer a beach.

Yup.

Cheers,

- D.

413 - PAW 2014 - Wargaming Convention

Yup, this is just the promised brief snapshot of Plymouth's excellent PAW 2014 (1st-2nd Feb '14). Phone pics first:

Detail from a GORGEOUS Bolt Action Demo Game - I'm afraid I really don't know whose (any claimants?)

Another detail from the same game

And again. Just lovely minis - Bolt Action's just so evocative when well presented!

Long shot of a wide-ranging more modern game - 1:72? Still no idea whose game this was, I'm afraid...

Ditto (detail)

And just inside the main hall - who else but our very own Kirton Games!

I went only for an hour or so, as I had No.2 Daughter with me (my bargaining chip for being allowed out) and for once, I actually bought something. Two things in fact: I bought my new KR Multicase and I bought a pot of the new GW curiously-not-quite-Dark-Angels-Green paint from the ever-pleasant Col. Gravis, who was there with Kirton Games. Yay!

Gravis is the pensive-looking one at the stall at the back...

Now, rather impressively, the PAW event takes up two very large sports halls, and this year it included (I believe) six tournaments too - including 40K and Flames of War. Next year I might just take a Flames army along...

It's hosted by the excellent Plymouth Association of Wargamers, and I've been very struck a number of times by how friendly it is. Talking of which, if anyone can point me towards any owners of the models in the shots above I'd be much obliged...

Who knows - if I keep this up then maybe one day I might even emerge from my gamer's closet...?!

Keep well,

- Drax.

PS: It's half-term now, so weather, family and sleep notwithstanding I might just be able to get a wee bit more painting done...