Renegade Legion Centurion Blood and Steel, via eBay @ £8.00
Haiti Relief Bundle from DriveThruRPG.com @ £12.42
Total: £20.42
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Counting the Cost of War(games) – Grand Total 2009
Posted on in Games, Miniatures, My Life.The budget was £500 – £100 per quarter plus £100 for shows, subscriptions and the like.
| January: | £0.00 |
| February: | £91.85 |
| March: | ££39.97 |
| April: | £10.50 |
| May: | £21.25 |
| June: | £0.00 |
| July: | £7.95 |
| August: | £9.74 |
| September: | £60.36 |
| October: | £11.99 |
| November: | £39.92 |
| December: | £4.00 |
| Floating Fund: | £80.45 |
| Total: | £377.98 |
Counting the Cost of War(games) – Floating Fund ’09
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.Spent at Salute.
1 ticket for Salute, @ £9.95.
1 Mammoth from Baker Company, @ £20.00
1 pack of Chaps on the Hunt from The Woodbine Design Company, @ £6.00
5 UK police Geezers from Killer B Games, @ £9.00
Total for Salute: £44.95
Spent at SELWG.
1 ticket for SELWG, @ £5.00
1 Smilodon from Strategem/Trent/DZ, @ £3.50
3 packs of Soapy’s SciFi figures from The Woodbine Design Company, @ £13.00
Copy of Sticks & Stones from the Bring and Buy, @ £5.00
Book Golem and Orangutans from Black Cat Bases, @ £9.00
Total for SELWG: £35.50
Counting the Cost of War(games) – December ’09
Posted on in Games, Magazines.In a daze
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.Some bad news about Dazed Miniatures – the range is being withdrawn from sale. The silver lining is a 30% off sale to clear the remaining stock.
All that the story on the RLBPS web site says is:
Dazed Miniatures was a partnership and it has been been ended by one partner (the Sculpter) withdrawing the licence to produce any of the figures we made. RLBPS still owns the molds but can not run them.
I wonder what it is with Richard Deasey’s lines? He sculpted the second half of the the HLBS prehistoric line and then took it away to found DZ Miniatures, which vanished soon afterwards. The mammals, but not the dinosaurs, reappearing years later from Strategem/Trent Miniatures whose own tribulations made getting hold of them sometimes frustrating (but they are currently available via North Star). And now this. Is there any chance that some of the best prehistoric miniatures will be available from a stable supplier (one with a working e-commerce facility would be really nice)?
In the mean time I need to work out how much I splurge on miniature mammoths, etc., taking Christmas, moving house and exchange rates into consideration. Couldn’t be a worse time for a closing down sale.
Very True Mood: 
confused
confusedCounting the Cost of War(games) – November ’09
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.Bison, Lynx, Dinosaur and Terror Bird from Wargames Foundry (sale), @ £39.92
Total: £39.92
Return of Bog-A-Ten and friends
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Games, Miniatures.
Via the SFSFW blog comes the very welcome news that HLBS have, temporarily, re-released their Bog-A-Ten rules and some of their dinosaur miniatures range in honour of the game’s tenth anniversary. As it was their original range that got me into miniature dinosaurs (I bought a Styracosaurus and some Velociraptors at Salute 2000) this is very pleasing. Get them whilst you can, in particular DA10 Tylosaur, DA11 Elasmosaurus and DA12 Phorusrhacos which have been out of production for several years.
(This does make my web page even more complicated as some of these models have now been released under three different product codes.)
Big Game Hunt
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Games, Miniatures.
I’ve been updating my Dinosaurs in Miniature pages. The main differences have been the addition of the MegaMiniatures megafauna that I posted about previously, the continuing expansion of the Dazed Miniatures range and some new miniatures from Wargames Foundry, including the Terror Bird shown here.
BTW, Foundry have a 20% off sale until the 10th November 2009. So now’s a very good time to pick up these new goodies.
At SELWG last month I picked up a “new” Smilodon from the “old” DZ range sold by Trent Miniatures. It’s in a walking pose rather than the leaping pose that’s been available for a while. This range is now available over the web from North Star though this additional Smilodon isn’t listed.
There have also been a few additions to the 10mm DinoMight range form Magister Militum.
MY Miniatures ice age range seems to have melted away from the web with the close of Geocities. Does anyone know if they have a new web site elsewhere?
And finally, the Tusk rules are available as PDF via Wessex Games/Wargame Vault. You can still buy the paper version from Irregular but the new version has full colour photos throughout.
I am currently growing a moustache as all big game hunters should.
Counting the Cost of War(games) – October ’09
Posted on in Miniatures.Star Wars CMG miniatures via Forbidden Planet, @ £11.99 (Damn! I haven’t indulged that particular vice since March.)
(BTW, SELWG purchases come out of the annual fund)
Total: £11.99
SELWG 09
Posted on in Games, Miniatures.Today was the SELWG show, back for the first time since 2006. So once again I had a nice stroll up the hill and then a few hours shopping and gawping at the games.
The renovated Crystal Palace Sports Centre meant that there was considerably more room for the Bring and Buy sale and for the first time ever I actually found something I wanted to buy. The B&B wasn’t helped by people standing in front of it chatting to their mates who were serving. Come on guys, I know that shows are a chance to catch up with old friends but not whilst they’re trying to run the most chaotic and crowded part of the whole show.
But the highlight was a buying these chaps and if you don’t get why they’re so exciting to me, take a look at the original paint scheme, and if that still means nothing to you then I can only say that this was a nostalgic trip back to my childhood.