Partizan Loot : Chinook Gunship ACH-47

I really enjoyed my outing to Partisan (Newark) on Sunday. As well as helping man the Wargames Development (WD) stall running a game of "633 Squadron", I found myself mostly "looking" so no crazy massive purchases to announce. However I did add to some "ongoing projects" (see below, one of them is the [20mm-1/72] Vietnam period of interest): 

In addition I stocked up on Vietnam "casualties of war" for dead and wounded markers from Grubby Tanks. Also, I did see Early War Miniatures as somewhere that understood my early WWII interests. I have a rolling France 1940 project (yes French & BEF but even the fringe Danish, Norwegian [Narvik] and Dutch elements) plus Italian East Africa projects (future purchases) to consider. 

https://earlywarminiatures.com/

But .. the best thing about Partisan was meeting up with old wargaming friends. Decades may have passed but meeting up, talking shop and even rolling dice (perhaps flying a RAF Mosquito down a fjord for instance [see 633 Squadron Game]) means that the conversation just starts where you left off! Fantastic and it is so good for the soul.

633 Squadron Project: 1/200 BRS Models

If you look closely you will see "half" of 633 Squadron (see below, queue theme music - I know you know it): 

This is one of my long standing childhood "silly dream" projects. 1/72 scale is way too big, as is 1/144 [as well as being seriously expensive last time I looked]. 1/300 seemed "almost right" but a little bit on the small side, so 1/200 seems the manageable compromise and the Warlord kit is very nice (plus I also have a Skytrex Action 200 Nazi Flak Battalion which is the same scale). I know I don't need twelve planes (as you can recycle them round) but once I have done the first six, in for a penny, in for a pound - just the question of a making the fjord scenery and a Nazi atomic factory to blow up ;)