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It's been an interesting week for purchases so far... I have not bought much, but it's been nice stuff. Alun Loose Tongue - A C02 Wizard I have been after or a while Another Mighty Fortress - Because you can never have enough, can you? The Ral Partha badge - reassuringly expensive, and besides, I like it. As I head towards my October end date for the 2019 campaign season (I always stop buying as of October 31st every year) I am unsure what to buy to round out the year. I am tempted with a 'proper' Bretonnian army using the original Feudal figures now sold as Barons Wars by Foundry. Equally a Great Goblin army using my own Satanic Panic Miniatures range calls to me in the heat of the night. Thr trouble is, that I also loved the Tabletop Heroes pages which showed Essex Miniatures used by Joe Dever. And come to think of it, some more Joe Dever stuff could be fun, couldn't it? We are at a crossroads here now, ...

Go Large, Or Go Home...

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Heroics & Heroics & Ros British troops for the Falklands, using a mix of old and new sculpts, which, as this illustrates very nicely just how any differences are totally lost during the painting and basing process. The pictures show 10 companies of Royal Marines, 6 of Parachute Regiment and the various garrison troops on the Islands. All are portrayed at 1:1 ratio. I am really happy with these and I hope my client will be. The joy of having monthly account clients is that I get to work on some truly massive projects and my clients see their collections grow in real time without the pain of one almighty bill at the end. The static grass on these models is a custom blend from some of the 2 dozen colours and lengths that I sell under my SNAFU Scenics brand. The mix is designed to convey that strange mix of the moist and dry growth you get on peat and hill, with the odd patch of verdant green, mixed with more muted straw and ginger tones, against a peat s...