This month I an delighted to describe some of the best offerings for a long tine. Whom one talks of model artillery them the same Hinchliffe automatically follows and their latest range of British and French Napoleonic gums is 25mm scale will be muck welcomed by the wargamer. As befits everything turned out by Hinchliffe, they are brilliant little models - I have soon British 6pdr (6s. -d.); 9pdr (6s.-d.); 10 inch, Howitzer (8o.-d.) and French 8pdr (6a.-d.); 12pdr (6s.-d.); and 10 inch mortar.
The 1/150 scale card models of Military Vehicles obtainable from Greening, Knoll Cottage, Knoll Road, Dorking, Surrey, are one of the most exciting and original wargaming items I have seem for a long time. With two vehicles printed on an appropriately coloured card so that painting is act needed (although camouflage painting aid. Unit marking can easily be carried out) mad with fully rotating turrets, these simply put-together models are in such a suitable scale and are so cheap in price that modern wargaming in revolutionized. For 28.5d. you get four cards making up into eight vehicles and for Ll. -a. -d. you got 48 cards making up into 96 vehicles.
The range at present is rather limited but is constantly increasing. One can get Sherman tanks; Brea carriers; Cruiser tanks (Cromwell); Humber Scout Cars and German Tigers; Hetzers; Mark IV task; Personnel Carrier Kfz251/1 and a Panther tank. Write to this firm for full details of these fine little vehicles which look most realistic whom made up.
I have received from the famous American model soldier manufacturer Jack Scruby his Catalogue Supplement and Newsletter listing the new Ready-Cast Scruby Miniatures is 25mm; 30mm and 54mm scale. The list has an attractive range of several hundred of their most popular figures which have been turned out so as to form a stock-pile for a 24 hour delivery schedule at a price lower than the regular, charge for these figures, Ambrits who now control Scruby figures, are planning to cut back prices on military miniatures to a 1960 level and Jack claims is wargaming circles (at least in U.S.A.) the saw prices on Scruby READY-CAST models are at least 40% under other U.S.A. produced metal figures end now compare favourably with English manufacturers prices. I am also told that within the next six months they hope to put out zeta of painted 25mm figures probably in boxes of 4 painted infantry retailing at about 1. pound. This in am exciting new venture end wargamers are recommended to write to Jack for details.
John Meredith of Bellona (Hawthorn Hill, Bracksell, Berkshire) has a small quantity of discontinued limes for disposal and he is offering readers of this magazine 5 Battlefield Sets (their assortment - grey or dark earth colour) for the ridiculous sun of 5 for 10s. -d. including postage. There are only 30 such sets end the first 30 letters received will be the lucky ones.
I have received from Arnold J. Headrick of 10 Cole Road, Wayland, Mass. 01778, U.S.A..details of a new set of World War II naval wargaming rules called SURFACE WARSHIP 1939_1943. They are professionally printed and include a 24-page rule booklet, a large number of tables and ship statistic shoots and all the accessory playing equipment (fire arrows, torpedo markers, turning gauges and 1:1200 deck plans). It is claimed that SURFACE WARSHIP is different from most naval wargames aid given a system of high-speed simultaneous play that heightens enjoyment while cutting playing time per game to 1-2 hours. The details I have of this game are rather toolengthy to give here but it certainly does sees to be an interesting and novel variation on the Fletcher Pratt ship card system. Cost to American readers $2.50 each presumably readers in Great Britain should send 25s. -d. or the dollar equivalent.
A recent visit to the Imperial War Museum in London (currently displaying a Victoria Cross Exhibition) revealed that it in possible to buy some highly interesting items. At 4d. each are postcard size photographs of a number of the exhibits; at 6d. each in a big range of coloured post cards of groups of soldiers of World Ware I and II. At the same price a most interesting set of about a dozen coloured cards of French soldiers of the 1870 period by the famous artist Detaille. Another good buy at 18a.6d. is an L.P. Record of marches of the Guards Division - this comes in a 14" X 10" 20 page coloured booklet packed with fine photographs of the Guards and details of their history, ceremonies and present day activities. It is also possible to purchase all the books on tanks put out by the R.A.C. Museum at Bovington and a lot of other items including reproductions of famous military posters.
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