Things I have bought or nearly bought due to lockdown

[hammurabi70]

Still on sentry duty at the front

Pendraken package arrived this lunchtime.  Interesting timing that it arrives on VE Day.  Very difficult to put it to one side with a gloved hand and wait.
:-

[Last Hussar]

I have two pairs of the strongest glasses the Poundshop does.

Why are they never at my painting table?

[Techno]

Amazon apparently still sell those key fobs that whistle back at you when you mislay sommat.

Mind you...The reviews for a lot of them are somewhat less than complimentary. (They beep or whistle at the slightest noise.....Driving their owners loopy. )

Cheers - Phil

[sunjester]

Amazon apparently still sell those key fobs that whistle back at you when you mislay sommat.

Mind you...The reviews for a lot of them are somewhat less than complimentary. (They beep or whistle at the slightest noise.....Driving their owners loopy. )

Cheers - Phil

Would anyone notice? :-

You walked into that one Phil!

[Techno]

Oh....Yes....They'd notice it.

I have stages WELL beyond loopy....I'd go straight to Defcon 1, if I had one of those things.

Cheers - Phil 

[O Dinas Powys]

Given that air recirculation is one of the reasons given as to why aircraft seats shouldn't be removed or left empty in future I'm pretty sure it's still a thing and not going to stop any time soon.

Aircraft air recirculation systems are insanely good these days.  My wife read something the other day: the filters are close to as good as those in the full high-dependency gear medics wear. 

[Macsen Wledig]

Nigh on £200 on 10mm Late Romans, Saxons and Picts.....oopsie

[O Dinas Powys]

Nigh on £200 on 10mm Late Romans, Saxons and Picts.....oopsie

Well, accidents will happen... 

[Macsen Wledig]

indeed....several times over several weeks in fact 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good choices

[Orcs]

Yes same here, mainly bases, paints etc.

Still resisting the Punic wars though, (even DBA armies)- Its been weeks since any lead arrived..  I feel like a lead addict on recovery........ Only one slip half a dozen 42mm WW1 British from Irregular.

Not sure hoe much longer it will go on for - The  Lead addict recovery I mean 

So assuming your a lead addict in recovery ,does buying paints , and basses and ancillary items count the same ?

Personally I don't count them as they are expendables. 

Mrs Orcs counts all the packages addressed to me as war games stuff - even when the contents are not fo, or are for something to do with the house or garden, OR EVEN when they are for her (like the camera stuff I ordered for her recently)

[sunjester]

Still resisting the Punic wars though, (even DBA armies)- Its been weeks since any lead arrived..  I feel like a lead addict on recovery........ Only one slip half a dozen 42mm WW1 British from Irregular.

If you do give in, I'll split the load with you. You buy them and paint/base them, then I will help you play with them! 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Now I have had some pay come in, I've been spending my money replenishing and resupplying bases, paints, tufts, scatter and figures, howrver, I keep painting the latter.

[mmcv]

So far I'm waiting on three different orders with some figures and some bases and basing material, and have also purchased a few books for research purposes.

One of those packages contains the seeds of two new projects.

I'm also trying to get some custom size metal bases from a very slow to respond eBay seller.

Most of these are pretty small orders though, price wise, spreading the costs out a bit with just keeping things ticking along hobby wise.

[DaveH]

Thanks - I'll have a look for some UK suppliers - steel shim isn't something I knew of before

Try https://magneticdisplays.co.uk/ - Coritani Magnetic Displays do this in the UK and are wargamer friendly - I have bought stuff from them at the SELWG show a few times.

[Raider4]

I've been a good boy so far and bought nothing, until I buckled and ordered two of Peter Dennis' Paperboys books - the Castle Assault one and the War of Spanish Succession.

Spent the weekend scanning in the pages, and now I have two medieval armies printed out ready for sticking & cutting, to finally give the One Hour Wargames rules a try.

[Orcs]

If you do give in, I'll split the load with you. You buy them and paint/base them, then I will help you play with them! 

You are such a generous friend 

[Orcs]

I've been a good boy so far and bought nothing, until I buckled and ordered two of Peter Dennis' Paperboys books - the Castle Assault one and the War of Spanish Succession.

Spent the weekend scanning in the pages, and now I have two medieval armies printed out ready for sticking & cutting, to finally give the One Hour Wargames rules a try.

so do these count as feeding your addiction???

[DaveH]

Not yet bought anything in Lockdown though I have some money sitting in my Paypal account that I do intend to use for wargaming stuff.

I'm likely to pick up Bob Cordery's Portable Colonial Wargame book then look about getting my Pendraken Zulus and British onto the table. After that I might be coming back for some figures for the Sudan wars.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

You are such a generous friend 

You still want stuff painting Orcs?