Post by briddy on Nov 20, 2016 21:55:20 GMT
I believe I belong to a special class of gamer, who is out of his time and his place. All those lovely toys, that are no longer made or are too far away. Fortunately the internet appeared and eBay provideth ("yeth it does"). Except when what you want is waaaay more than I'm ready to spend. I am slowly but surely building up matched 54mm WW2 toy armies, German v Brits. The emphasis is on toy. The look of the thing draws on nostalgia for Saturday afternoon battles on the living room carpet in the 1970s and Commando comics.
Neil Thomas' One Hour Wargame book provided me with a very necessary template for army must haves. So we have infantry (Airfix, Deetail and XPed), tanks (CTS) and British artillery (Britains 25pdrs standing in for AT guns). The question now is address German guns. Deetail samples I have seen are spendy (as already stated). I'm currently tempted to acquire more 25pdrs and reprint them (replete with Crosses of course). I wonder what would you do? I'm curious how do other people address the deep question of what to use for their armies when faced with the same limits of availability?
Neil Thomas' One Hour Wargame book provided me with a very necessary template for army must haves. So we have infantry (Airfix, Deetail and XPed), tanks (CTS) and British artillery (Britains 25pdrs standing in for AT guns). The question now is address German guns. Deetail samples I have seen are spendy (as already stated). I'm currently tempted to acquire more 25pdrs and reprint them (replete with Crosses of course). I wonder what would you do? I'm curious how do other people address the deep question of what to use for their armies when faced with the same limits of availability?
