Saturday, May 24, 2014

A New Old Purchase

It has been several weeks of little painting. That does not mean I am not working on gaming projects. Just it does not involve a paintbrush. Board games and books have been brought out working on projects.

While going through the basement looking to clean out some of the clutter I found this model kit box. I bought it at NJCon on a whim. I figured that I could put it to use for my 15mm figures.

While not a strange purchase it was out of the norm for me. What is the strangest purchase you have ever made for your gaming hobby?




4 comments:

  1. Well, not sure it counts as strange but... I have bought a lot of stuff that seemed like a good idea at the time, but then never got used.

    Like when I started to assemble 20mm german forces for Normandy. I decided to go with 12th SS hitlerjugend. I knew they had panthers and panzer IV's, but what more did they have. I heard they had Jagdpanthers, and managed to track down two of the Out of production Matchbox kits.

    Then I bought some photoetched skirts since the Matchbox kits didn't have any, only to realise that the skirts were 1/72 while the matchbox kits were 1/76. So I bought some new Revell Jagdpanthers. But then I learned that 12th SS had Jagdpanzer IV's in Normandy, they only recieved Jagdpanthers during battle of the bulge.

    So now I have four Jagdpanthers in two different scales that I don't need... somewhere at the back of the stash. ;-)

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  2. "Well, not sure it counts as strange but... I have bought a lot of stuff that seemed like a good idea at the time, but then never got used."

    Leif - that pretty much accounts for everything I've ever bought to do with wargaming!

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  3. I agree, Leif's plight is the same for some many of us.

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  4. Glad to hear I'm not the only one guys!!!

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