At 'Broadside' yesterday David Crook and I managed to swop some items. I gave him a copy of Adrian J. English's THE GREEN HELL – A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE CHACO WAR BETWEEN BOLIVIA AND PARAGUAY 1932-35 (published in 2007 by Spellmount Ltd.[ISBN 978 1 86227 445 7]) ...
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... and my spare copy of ARMIES OF THE ADOWA CAMPAIGN 1896: THE ITALIAN DISASTER IN ETHIOPIA (MAA 471 by Sean McLachlan and Raffaele Ruggeri [ISBN 978 1 84908 457 4]).
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In exchange he gave me BITTER VICTORY: THE CAMPAIGN IN VENEZIA AND THE SOUTH TYROL AND THE BATTLE OF CUSTOZA JUNE-JULY 1866 by John Pocock and illustrated by Ralph Weaver (published in 2002 by Barbarossa Books [ISBN 0 9538777 3 6]) and ...
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... two boxes of unmade HäT Renault FT-17s with 37mm cannons.
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I also managed to make some purchases from the stand run by Harefields Figures. They had a number of ROCO and Roskopf vehicles on sale for £2.00 each (or six for £10.00) ... so I bought some!
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It is rather a mixed bag of stuff as it contains a mixture of World War II and post-war vehicles, and the Roskopf vehicles are closer to 1:100th-scale than the ROCO 1:87th-scale ones ... but I am sure that I will find a use for them somewhere in my Eastern Front/Great Patriotic War campaign project.
... and my spare copy of ARMIES OF THE ADOWA CAMPAIGN 1896: THE ITALIAN DISASTER IN ETHIOPIA (MAA 471 by Sean McLachlan and Raffaele Ruggeri [ISBN 978 1 84908 457 4]).
In exchange he gave me BITTER VICTORY: THE CAMPAIGN IN VENEZIA AND THE SOUTH TYROL AND THE BATTLE OF CUSTOZA JUNE-JULY 1866 by John Pocock and illustrated by Ralph Weaver (published in 2002 by Barbarossa Books [ISBN 0 9538777 3 6]) and ...
... two boxes of unmade HäT Renault FT-17s with 37mm cannons.
I also managed to make some purchases from the stand run by Harefields Figures. They had a number of ROCO and Roskopf vehicles on sale for £2.00 each (or six for £10.00) ... so I bought some!
It is rather a mixed bag of stuff as it contains a mixture of World War II and post-war vehicles, and the Roskopf vehicles are closer to 1:100th-scale than the ROCO 1:87th-scale ones ... but I am sure that I will find a use for them somewhere in my Eastern Front/Great Patriotic War campaign project.