Inspirational Site: Real Bionic Arms

https://openbionics.com/about/

This seems a truly fantastic feat of initiative and engineering, I am impressed!

Terrain Resource: Buildings (Railway Scale) Paper

Passed onto me by a friend:
http://www.wordsworthmodelrailway.co.uk/townscene.html

It is a FREE to download but with a PP Donation button!
Have not tried it yet but the range looks good.

Even better: Trebian has spotted another site:
https://www.grundschule-pretzschendorf.de/Werken/Weihnachtsberg/weihnachtsberg.html

Wish Me Well on Cruel Seas (the Warlord Games Version)

A "Merry Little Xmas" present to myself indeed (See below, and more successful than the "air blown" Happy Snowman shown in the background):

Warlord Games had a little problem with the shipping as they are sending on the "wake markers" as soon as they get them, which all-in-all as there is plenty of reading and assembling to be done in the meantime.

Myself a veteran 1/600 Skytrex range I am looking forward to see how it plays and hope for a game or two over the Christmas period and early New Year. I think it is a "Game in a Box"  to my mind. I cannot see myself running after the "bigger items" as they would be almost too big to get on table (admittedly there are some "big" 1/200 - 1/350 - 1/400 model ships about). I cannot see myself travelling far outside of the North Sea as the other theaters have "lesser appeal" (famous last words). I think January's WI may carry some more Cruel Seas ships which is good news even if they are repeats!

 

Valor and Victory - A Simple Version of ASL?

Thanks to "Old Trousers" at "Numbers, Wargames and Arsing About" (inspirational title if ever there was one: http://flagsofvictory.blogspot.com/

See post:
http://flagsofvictory.blogspot.com/2018/11/stout-hearts.html

Intriguingly he highlights a FREE game that is in the genre of ASL but for "normal people" (brilliant quote). I will certainly be dipping in here!

URL:
http://www.valor-and-victory.com/index.htm

Addictive Mobile Games: Rebel Inc and Plague Inc [Fixed bad link]

Blame Rex Brynen at PaxSims for putting me onto this (see PaxSims post): https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/review-rebel-inc/

Rebel Inc:
https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/51-rebel-inc

Plague Inc:
https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/22-plague-inc

He (Rex) focused on the Rebel Inc game ["no greater testimony can be said than an inspired and dedicated long-term internationally renown educator sees so much value in it, he wants to integrate it into his future course delivery" - say no more!] but equally (if not more addictive at least to me) is the Plague Inc game. Both are reassuringly "cheap" but quite sobering when Rex proclaimed it superior in many ways to some "paid for by the government  work" he had also seen.

A pre-Christmas treat ;)

Note to Self: Good Wargaming Blog Site "Phil B Ancients" - although it is a lot more than Ancients

https://philbancients.blogspot.com/

Especially like his Eastern Front Spearhead "Operational" Epic Game (or mini campaign in a day)

I am back .. Did you miss me?

The curse of the computer struck me down. This time a "motherboard" issue that burnt out, Ho hum, at least I got all my data this time ;)

Nice to be bad, al beit on a lower specification machine!