Blog Ring (Community Currency)

After a reply to my previous post suggested a Blog ring to flit between all bloggers who wanted to offer Community Currency pages. I had a look on-line and found it was not too hard to set up so I did. If you want to join the ring all I need is the email address your blog is based on and I can set you up you then get an email with the HTML code to copy and paste onto your blog, its as simple as that.

Just to clarify this Community Currency is a idea to use your lead pile and your hobby skills as currency with another blogger, it was all brought about by me wanting to make myself a wargames table and being time poor due to painting all the time and Loki wanting to start a new Saga faction but also being time poor as he is busy making terrain. It only took one dropped comment in a talk about the Bloggers Charity for the idea to form why could I not paint up a faction for Loki and he pays me in terrain, tis a win-win. All trasaction/deals will be different and sorted out between the two bloggers. I see this as just another way for the Blog Community to help each other.

 

Phalanx 2013

This Saturday I nipped up the road to St Helen's and the Phalanx show this was the first show I made it too after I returned to the UK so it holds good memory's for me. This year I was more going there to network rather than buy stuff, but it would be just wrong to not come away with anything. I think there were lots more traders that on previous years and less demo games, for me it was getting a little claustrophobic.
I picked up two box's of GB plastic's which I can use for Saga and Dux Britannia, they should give me enough troops to do all the core units I need and I will take my time looking around for leader models. I picked up another 2 pts for SAGA Irish to add to the starter force I already have these I am painting up as part of a trade with Loki.
I had arranged to meet up with Loki so we could catch up with all things Bloggers for Charity and generally put the gaming world to rites. We both wondered over to catch up with Andy from AW Miniatures who had brought along the latest greens which were incredible I have added a few pictures for you below.

I also remembered to pick up some new paint brushes.

Books That Inspire me to paint (part 3)

This book cost me money, after reading it I wanted to create the patrol in 28mm and went to company B and ordered a couple of armoured cars.
Death and Glory: The last Commando

Libya, 1942 - Rommel's Africa Korps is sweeping across the desert. Ragged Allied forces are being torn apart in brutal fire-fights on the scorched sands. A desperate message to the Prime Minister is entrusted to First Officer Madeleine Rose, WRNS. Her codename: Runefish.

When GHQ hears that Runefish's plane is lost behind enemy lines, they send for battle-hardened Sergeant Tom Caine. Caine is a first class soldier who nearly always does what he's told. He will lead a squad of specialist commandos into the heart of enemy territory and either rescue or execute Runefish. If he refuses to take this near-suicide mission he faces court martial. Now the outcome of the war depends on his following orders.

Death or glory beckon . . .

don't click I nicked the picture off Amazon :)

Michael Asher is the author, he is also a historian, deep ecologist, and notable desert explorer who has covered more than 30,000 miles on foot and camel. He spent three years living with a traditional nomadic tribe in Sudan. He was in the Para's and while studying at Leeds served in 23rd SAS Regiment.

While  my plans for WW2 gaming has gone on to the back burner I have read the book a few times since, I must have a look at some of his others one day.