Re: An introduction AND EVEN AN ON TOPIC BIT!

Well, since we're all doing it:

I'm 36, and I've been wargaming "seriously" since I was 12 (i.e. in
1974)-
Airfix tanks and infantry using Charles Grant's "Battle: Practical
wargaming" rules, plus Donald Featherstone's books from the library.  

D&D, Traveller (black box) and C&S (Chivalry and Sorcery) in secondary
school;  I still have, and play, my original copy of Ogre, in its
polythene
envelope.  

I am fundamentally a tank nut.	

SF gaming started at school, using an American rules set called "Space
Marine" (Do Mekpurrs, Rauwoofs and the Azuriach Empire ring any bells?)
Starship gaming used an ultra-simple set of fast play ironclad rules
from a
Featherstone book, and a small number of Garrison Starcruisers (which
now
form my Scottish FT fleet) supplemented by various toys and 1/72
aircraft
ordnance.  

ON TOPIC BIT!
I discovered a bit of an old copy of the magazine "Battle", for August
1978.
In the review section it says, "Jonathan Tuffley of Felixstowe has sent
ussome samples of his new range of spacecraft models.  These come
supplied
as two halves cast in white polyester resin (SNIP).  These excellent
little
models range in price from 5p to 15p..."

There are four models shown; 3 are assymmetric designs, while the 4th is
a
longish vessel with engine podes at the stern.	I'll see if I can get a
scan
of the pic.

Rob

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