FIASCO, Wargames Show 'Loot'

Hello There! After looking through my posts I realised I had not described the items I had purchased at FIASCO.

In an attempt to resist the 'OOOOH! Shiney!' syndrome, which is the downfall of so many wargamers, I had a fixed idea of what I might buy if I saw it for sale, in the show.

I have used a few combinations of enamel paints, to represent old worn wood. I normally paint scored plastistrut and then add various coats of thinned enamel washes. With enamel paints, you have to clean the brushes with white spirit. This not only knocks hell out of your brushes, (so I have a set of designated brushes that I only use for enamels), but it gives off a lot of spirit odour, which is not healthy for you!

I visited the Great Escape Games stand and found these on the stall. I had asked about these two sets at the Partizan show and he had not yet received them in his stock. A few weeks down the line and here they are!

I will do a further post on these when I have tried them out.

I purchased some latex roads from Early War Miniatures, at the last Partizan show, and the dry grouns if to go on them to provide a gritty finish to the roads.

This company has been very helpful to me in the past. There website is here.

I usually browse the Stonewall Miniatures stand, when I see them at a show. This time I was able to purchase some figures for some planned and current projects. Above are 20mm figure packs of Indian troops in the desert, LRDG crews and WWII NW Europe British.

As the work on the cabin nears completion then I can start to change the composition of the 20mm Rapid Fire units I have at present.

This will include increasing the company sizes from 6/8 figures to 8/10 figures. Also the squadron size of tanks will be increased from 3 to 4.