a couple of gangsters are attacked by some nazis outside of a diner... kinda sounds like a set up for a joke...

left to right: Superfigs, Copplestone, Steve Barber & Privateer Press. in front of a Plasticville diner

10 years of textfiles.com

great resource for pleople looking for old BBS files, many of the games running on my BBS originated from there, after I found out I no longer had an archive of the files.

Congradulations and thanks for all the work you have done!

On the evening of October 30th, 1938, Orson Welles and his cast from the Mercury Theatre on the Air, dramatized H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds" on the Columbia Broadcasting Network.

The following mornign the New York Times Headline above the fold read "Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact".

It was estimated that 6 million people listened to the broadcast, of those 1.7 million believed it to be true.

in the last year the BBS world has lost (to my knowledge) Hellas, X-Bit, Darkness and now Hard Drive Cafe. Its sad to see so many of the boards that were around when I started BBSing so many years ago falling by the wayside.
Unfortunatly with the passing of the HDC, BRE league 777 appears to be dead as well. I am looking into replacements for both of the interBBS leagues

 

Here is a photo with all the Lledo cars that I have aquired so far, there is only one more I know I want.

 

A few of the Lledo cars that I have been waiting on have arrived in the mail over the last couple of days, and I can say they are a better match for 25-28mm gaming that Matchbox MoY cars from the previous entry. The last vehicle to come in the mail also came with Lledo's plastic people, so I have shot one of them with the various figs from other lines for a sze comparison.

 From left to right: Copplestone Ganglands, RAFM Call of Cthulhu, Copplestone High Adventures, Lledo, TSR, Artizan, Steve Barber and  AE-WWII

 

Matchbox Packard vs. Lledo Rolls Royce

ERTL Chevy Panel Van vs. Lledo Model A Panel Van

In an upcoming pulp campaign, I thought it would be interesting to include some scenery like automobiles into the mix. There are a few miniature makers that produce their own that come with a hefty pricetag... more than I wanted to spend anyway. Remembering that "O" scale railroad scenery can be comparable to 25mm miniatures, I started digging around. Three lines of products came to light. Matchbox "Models of Yesteryear", Ertl, & Lledo "days gone"

Below is a 1930 Packard Victoria by Matchbox & a 1930 Chevy delivery truck from Ertl with copplestone figures for comparison.

Each vehicle cost about 5.00 + shipping

There is a house in New Orleans, and you might just find it in the New Orleans city guide.

In addition, there are more digitized books by the Federal Writer's Project. NY is particularly nice, and it is still available in print

 

RANT MODE ON:

I have been purchasing quite a few minis online lately, sight unseen, mainly because my FLGS does not carry that particular line of minis.

A lot of those minis will now sit in a drawer, probably never to be looked upon again, or only to be used as a reminder to how much I hate assembling certain minis.

I have a vague understanding of how minis are made and cast, so I understand that some assembly may be required, and a lot of the time that is fine but then you get the pieces like the "Gypsy Witch" from Black Orc where the skirt comes in two pieces… is it really that difficult to either a) find a better joining point or b) cast the thing in one piece?. Another example is the AE-WWII's German Female Officer/NCO where you have a less than a 1/16" width arm that you are somehow supposed to secure to the torso. Is it so hard to do a peg/hole setup on the figure itself? After a game or so that arm, even with pinning will find a way to fall off! I understand, she is "customizable" I would rather have one solid figure.

From my experience, "The joy of painting" does not include holding two pieces of tin together for 5 minutes hoping that the end result lines up the way they are supposed to.

Reaper, Artizan, and Black Scorpion have some wonderful figs, most or which have very little to glue on, and they will continue to get my business. I will be steering clear of any figure that I have not seen in person that says "multi-part", "interchangeable" or "customizable".

 

These are a couple I have finished up the last couple of weekends, there are a few more that Im workign on that are close to being finished as well.