Birthday Booty

I had a birthday party last night. The actual birthday was a week ago, but the weather was shitty, and we like to do our partyish socializing out in the back yard around a burning brazier, so we put it off until this weekend.

People brought me much wine, enough to ensure that my liver will suffer terribly.

Steve brought me an expansion to Kittens In A Blender, so we're no longer limited to only four players. Now we're limited to only six players, which is better.

Jo & Bastian brought me a whole bunch of ancient roleplaying miniatures, mostly Ral Partha, but there are some others in there as well. A few of them I already have examples of in my collection, but most are new to me (and I certainly never mind having more than one of a thing).

Now they can all go into a bath of Simple Green for a couple of days to strip off the old paint, ready for new paint.

All in all, I'd rate that birthday a Good Score.

More booty

Another good 6mm haul from the Christchurch Wargaming Society's annual bring-&-buy:

• A decent army's worth of Napoleonics: British with some Spanish allies/handicaps
• About 250 assorted WW2 German vehicles and guns, a mixture of H&R, GHQ and C-in-C by the look of them.

There were another couple of trays of assorted stuff that I had to (regretfully) leave behind due to lack of funds. Boo-hoo.

Oh yes, and a little five-dollar book on WW1 fighter aircraft. You can never have too many of those.

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Next day.....

I broke down and went back for the stuff I left behind.  had no high hopes that they'd still be there, but it looks like 6mm scale is really unfashionable in these parts nowadays, which is good for me.

There's a bunch of WW2 British stuff there — an odd mix, including Matildas, Crusaders, Churchills, and Comets. Also a tray of assorted aircraft, more or less battered, in both metal and resin. Plus a balsa glider of some description. I've not seen the resin stuff before, and they seem to be in an odd scale (1:350 maybe?) but they'll do fine as gaming pieces.

All in all, I'm really quite happy with my purchases. There's no way I'd be able to buy all this stuff at regular retail prices.