A box of delights

On Thursday, a large box from my old friend David Crook (the man behind A WARGAMING ODYSSEY blog) was delivered by courier. I was feeling just about well enough to open it and to peer inside ... and what I found confirmed that this was a true 'box of delights'!

I have now had time to carefully unpack the contents which included:

6 x Medium guns (2 different scratch built types [4 and 2] made by Eric Knowles)

2 x Russian 152mm Gun M1935 (Br-2)

2 x Howitzers (Scratch built by Eric Knowles)

1 x Russian 76.2mm Gun

German Fallschirmjäger (including a mountain gun, a 28mm schwere Panzerbüchse 41 (sPzB 41) Anti-tank Gun, an 81mm Mortar, a Heavy Machine Gun, and two motorcycles with sidecars)

German coastal defence troops (including 2 x 75mm sIG 18 Infantry Guns, 2 x 50mm Pak 38 Anti-tank Guns, 2 x 47mm PaK(t) Anti-tank Guns, 2 x 20mm Anti-aircraft Guns, 2 x 81mm Mortars, and 2 x Heavy Machine Guns).

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A bonus was the inclusion of six of David Crook's models, 5 ironclads [4 Turkish and 1 British] and a coastal defence fort.

These will fit in very nicely with my Belle Époque collection and might well encourage me to build some more ships of my own in future.