Free Victor?

Not a plea but an offer. RAF Marham’s Victor is up for grabs so if you have a big enough garden get your bid in now!
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/raf-marham-offering-free-victor-jet-1-6504843

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Another Victor

Acting up at Actium

This Wednesday John brought along a game he’d found on the internet. From long experience we know this is no guarantee of quality but we’ll try (virtually) anything once. 

Thus five players assembled under John’s supervision to shove around his 1/1200 galleys. The Romans were Martin (as Octavian - his own blog post will no doubt follow soon), Graham and Simon. The er, other Romans (and Egyptians) were led by Mark Anthony (Jerry) and the beautiful Cleopatra (er, your humble correspondent)

Our fleet was hugely outnumbered and our ships were slower but bigger. If your eyesight is up to it, the bases of the goodies are marked with letters, the baddies with Roman numerals.

We bid farewell to the Greek coast and floated off. We had to escape intact (some hope) or duff up the enemy fleet (even less hope!)

The overconfident Octavians were easily goaded into contact...

...and we had the best of the initial encounters. FYI, ships can take 15 hits. The white crosses are one each, yellow is a 5, red is 10.  

The action soon descended into what I believe the US military calls a ‘clusterf*ck’. Even Mark Anthony’s huge ship - beset on all sides by enemies - sank. 

At this point, the opposed initiative rolls  - ever more important - stalled. The pair of sixes was followed by another double as tension mounted. 

So who won?  Well me obviously!  Cleopatra’s pair of galleys slipped off  - much to Octavian’s distress!  We’ll draw a veil over the loss of the rest of our fleet.....

TSSD Germans

Now complete but still lurking on the modelling table is this batch of WW2 Germans. These are TSSD figures and are really rather lovely. There are elements of three sets here - I particularly like the chaps in greatcoats. Above - cleaned and based, but otherwise as they emerged from the pack.

I’ll try to take some decent photos at some point.

Back blogging at last!

 My absence from these pages of late was due to:
1. Being madly busy with work in the couple of weeks before Christmas
2. Being away over Christmas
3. Being ill when we returned
4. Being busy again
5. Being not very motivated to blog
But now I’m back so stand by for another year of ranting and random toys. For now, can you guess where we were at the end of December?

Bit more of a clue here!

 The local Masonic Hall is slightly taller than the two-floor Sheffield version!

 Wall Street - the financial district. 

 Brooklyn Bridge

Grand Central Station

 Bryant Park