Email from Dave Winfree on thew latest releases fromI-94.
Here's the new releases on Raiden aircraft minis (1/285 scale) and CY6 scenario books.
New CY6 books
Released and ready for your gaming pleasure. Pining for the Fjords - Norway, 1940. Scenario book covering Norwegian resistance to German attacks - most of the air combat is British vs. German. Retail $25, our price is $23. Published by Skirmish Campaigns.
Releases 31Oct23. Battles Above 4, Russia. Covers from Winter War between Russians and Finns as well as start to end of Continuation War. Hey, Buffalo fans, here's where it shines... $35 retail. Published by I-94 Enterprises.
New planes from Raiden Miniatures
USA-125 - F-18E Super Hornet. $6.
GER-002 - He-51. Technically, this is a rerelease as the He-51 which we offered years ago but pulled due to poor strength of landing gear and cumbersome assembly. That's taken care of with this 2 pc mini. $4.
And then as we need more Russian planes.....
RUS-007 Yak-1 $3.
RUS-010 Yak-1B $3
RUS-012 Yak-7B $3
RUS-013 Yak-9D $3.
RUS-015 Pe-2. $4.
USA-106 - remaster of F-100D. Profile is now correct. $4.
USA-117 - new release of Wild Weasel version of F-100. $4.
HOL-001 - remaster of Fokker DXXI. Our previous offering required gluing the landing gear onto the mini. The remaster is a 1 pc casting though a minimum of cuttin'n'fussin' required to get skis onto it. Instructions will be posted when mini is available. This is expected as a Dec 23 release
And to start 2024, JAP-21, Ki-21B Sally with dorsal turret
Peter Cushing’s Napoleonic wargaming ephemera….a treasure trove of wargaming history.
Last month Alan was lucky enough to win a bid at auction of the last items of Peter Cushing’s estate. Apart from his profession as a very fine actor starring in over one hundred films (22 of which were Hammer Horror) plus television and stage, many people (mostly wargamers) know he was a keen model soldier collector. He was also an excellent artist, terrain maker, figure and flag painter and, as it turns out, at the forefront of wargaming. By all accounts he was a true gentleman both on set and off.
Most of the auction was concerned with his film career and fair amount of his watercolours and sketches. There were two lots on his collecting/wargaming interests. The lot Alan won was a box file filled with Peter’s Napoleonic wargaming ephemera; handwritten notes on making terrain, painting flags plus many campaign letters, orders of battle and maps. The letters are between Don Houghton (his good friend) and himself mostly about wargaming. Don Houghton was a screenwriter and producer involved with Peter on quite a few films in the 1970’s. Being a screenwriter many of his letters to Peter about the campaign are extremely entertaining, written in a Napoleonic martial style.
What’s doubly fascinating is that most of Peter’s notes are on the back of film scripts! This also helps in dating the notes.
The main impression we have of Peter Cushing, as a wargamer, is from the 1956 Pathe News reel,
painting and playing with 54mm figures using H G ‘Wells Little Wars’. However, these notes show that by the 1970’s he was fully in tune with the ‘modern’ wargaming ideas; including building modular terrain on 2 ft x 2ft boards (it seems mostly for Don) and involved in Napoleonic campaigns, very much like the ones many people, including ourselves, run and take part in today. His modular terrain was designed to have the roads running off centrally, 12'' in from the corners, and 3’’ wide, so as many computations as possible could be created. He also made scaled down versions for Don to take away when he was working abroad, to give him time to plan his battles. Don used to drive to Peter’s to collect the terrain and boards, he actually bought a car for this particular reason with a large boot to fit them in! The campaigns in those days were, of course, by mail (or pigeon as Don puts it) so we have quite a good but not entire snapshot of the way their campaign/games were played as Don kept Peter up to date on what he was doing as the British commander in the campaigns. It also seems Peter loved painting flags, mostly for Don and possibly for himself too at well into the 1980’s. There were about 60 up for sale recently, but unfortunately we both missed them.
Peter could turn his skill’s to converting figures too. When Don couldn’t get any Minifigs figures standing at ease (because they didn’t make any) he asked Peter to convert a British and a French infantryman for him.
There is a lot of fascinating information in the notes, letters and photographs on different parts of the hobby, enough for a few posts here at least.
The first post will be a recreation of one of the games which was part of a ‘what if’ Waterloo campaign that Don and Peter were involved in.
Gladiator fights and chariot-races are well-known aspects of Roman civilisation that still appeal to the public imagination today. They were popular spectator sports and, like big sporting events nowadays, involved large crowds, passionate supporters and prize money for the successful. Scenes from fights or racing were used as decoration around the house, such as mosaics and wall-paintings or on bowls, drinking glasses, knife-handles and lamps, as well as on items of jewellery like signet rings and brooches. Our exhibition 'To the Roar of the Crowd' looks at some of these items in everyday use, and what they can tell us about the world of the games.
The exhibition examines all the roles involved in spectator sports, from those who organised the event and the owners of the gladiators, to the participants in the spectacle, which included not only gladiators, but wild animals, criminals and musicians. Find out about the different types of gladiators, their weapons and equipment, and learn about the experiences of charioteers, and the rituals of arena and circus.
The exhibition also features visuals by 3D artist, Neil Brewis, originally from South Shields and currently Course Leader in Computer Games Art at Solent University, Southampton. Neil’s research interests are digital reconstructions of Roman archaeological sites, and for the past ten years he has created animations and augmented reality simulations for sites and museums in the UK and Italy.
I am in the process of upgrading my ender 3 hot end. I bought these 3d files for a Filament (PLA). So I thought why not printed these in resin. I used my Elegoo Saturn S resin printer. The prints came out great.
Andrew Millis I went about 1/3 baking soda dry into the atomizer followed by 2/3 warm water , sealed and shook vigorously. Then a couple of misty shots on one edge of that broken spoon you see there and CA on the other - brought it together and gave it another quick spritz et voila - it went solid immediately with little fuss. I've used baking soda as an accelerant for years but of course it clumps and is ideal as a gap filler, but not for a join where I don't want a rocky seam ! I had an epiphany today whilst doing some repetitive superglueing and thought... I wonder if this will work ?...
