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Counting the cost of war(games)

Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures, RPGs.

So today was SELWG, the start of the new year so far as this experiment goes.

Bit of a final splurge on eBay – some out of print role playing game books, some Star Wars minis and some old Ral Partha dinosaurs – and some miniatures from Discount Hobby, all of which adds up to £74.6.

Grand total for the first year is £738.43

So, how about year two?

Including a bus ticket and entrance fee I spent £87.68 today. There wasn’t any impulse buying which was a good thing, instead I bought stuff that I’d had my eye on for some time (plus two Star Wars Universe boosters, sigh). Namely, The Starmada X Brigade rulebook; two DZ Miniatures Mammoths and two Wooly Rhinos (now available in resin from Stratagem, also available: three cave bears and a Glyptodon – very similar to, but a bit larger than, the Steve Barber version); a bunch of starships from GZG, including a Glowbug ;-) class free trader; and some of those little ‘gemstone’ markers that CCG players use and which I need for Chez Goth games with Lettice. The only thing I was after but didn’t get was the Serenity RPG book.

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Bit of this, bit of that

Posted on in Blogs, Games, My Life, WWW.

Last night Lettice stayed up until half past four working on her thesis proposal. There was computer related stress as well. And there’s some sort of bug doing the rounds at work. I feel very fuzzy headed and just want to go home and sleep.

A while ago my head of department revealed that in a previous life she had been involved in the creation of the sort of game that people who read this blog would probably be interested in. However an eBay search for “Romulan Challenge” reveals four copies for sale and no bids.
Not exactly a cult classic then.

Essex’s finest, Hal Berstram – famous for his election blog over at The Voice of the Turtle, is threatening to return to the world of blogging but needs just a little bit of a kick up the arse to get going. Hal, consider yourself kicked.

After a month of cock ups and delays the sfsfw.net domain name is now back pointing where it should. I suppose I should make some time to update the site (especially as Steve F sent me the cover and contents for Rag 48 last night).

This weekend is SELWG which marks the end of the year as far as the Counting the cost of war(games) experiment. I need to update the running total with the past fortnight’s eBay purchases (a really random collection of stuff but more on that later).

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SELWG report

Posted on in Games, Miniatures.

Yesterday was the SELWG wargames show at Crystal Palace. I went along for a few hours to look around and buy stuff; overall I think it was an improvement in last year’s show which I wasn’t very impressed by. Some people thought it was rather good whilst others found it not so good.

I bought Rebel Storm boosters – the first boosters I’ve bought (though I have been buying large numbers of canon fodder types on eBay). Got the very rare Princess Leia, Captive figure in one of them which was lucky. Various traders were selling boosters for prices between £8.00 and £12.99 – I got mine at the lower price because I remembered that it always pays to walk round every stand at a show before opening your wallet.

The only thing I bought were some MoFo minis from Gripping Beast – five packs of UK Falklands War troops to add to my UNIT force and a pack of SF characters based on Stargate SG1. The MoFo miniatures are little bit smaller the Harlequin UNIT troops but once based and painted up the same should fit in just fine.

There were some good games on show, the most striking being Diamond Geezers – a game based on old telly shows played over a very good recreation of a 1970s street scene.

SELWG is the last show of the year for me, there’s nothing now until Salute in April. You never know I may actually get round to doing some painting before then.

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