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).
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.
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A nice surprise!
ReplyDeleteNeil
Neil Patterson (Neil),
DeleteIt was ... and did my morale the power of good!
All the best,
Bob
Bob -
ReplyDeleteA trove, sir: a veritable trove!
Cheers,
Ion
Archduke Piccolo (Ion),
DeleteIt was a very welcome surprise … and I suspect that it will occupy my time over the next few months.
All the best,
Bob
David Crook's ships are delightful indeed.
ReplyDeleteMaudlin Jack Tar,
DeleteDavid does make some wonderful models!
All the best,
Bob
What a lovely surprise, Bob 🙂👍🏼. Restores faith in human nature…excellent to see. (Very nice little fort, I thought).
ReplyDeleteCheers
Martin
Martin S.,
DeleteIt was totally unexpected … David’s models are exceptionally good!
All the best,
Bob
Nice. At one time most of my artillery was either scatch built or converted, mostly Japanese and Russian. These days I... well, don't have much artillery left apart from the Japanese :(
ReplyDeleteRob Young,
DeleteI can remember converting Airfix ACW and RHA soft plastic guns into all sorts of artillery when I started out in wargaming. Mind you, I also converted the good old 25-pounder and 6-pounder hard plastic models (and their crews) into all sorts of guns, including a 50mm ATG that had road wheels from the Airfix Panther tank and a Czech 47mm ATG which used an inverted 6-pounder barrel!
Ah! The good old days!
All the best,
Bob
What a wonderful gift! I can see a Luftwaffe field division vs Russian Naval infantry Brigade scenario, perhaps with A Panzer Kemphgroup and Soviet tank regiment in support....
ReplyDeleteMark Cordone,
DeleteI already have some Luftwaffe ground troops in my collection, and the addition of some Fallschirmjager means that your suggested scenario is distinctly possible!
All the best,
Bob
BOB,
ReplyDeleteThe Ironclad Ships are excellent models - beautifully made - I particularly like the British one. Cheers. KEV.
Kev Robertson (Kev),
DeleteHMS Superb is a magnificent model ... and she was originally going to be the Turkish Hamidieh. Her sister ship (Mesudiye) served in the Ottoman Navy until she was sunk by British submarine B-11 on 13th December 1914. (She had been reconstructed into a pre-dreadnought by Ansaldo in 1903/04.)
All the best,
Bob
That really was a box of delights! I was increasingly amazed as the list of contents went on, and on... The FJ in particular look really nice, as do the scratch built ships.
ReplyDeleteMartin Rapier,
DeleteThe figures and artillery are going to fill an gap in my existing collection ... and the scratch-built ships are great additions to my Belle Époque collection.
All the best,
Bob