What will 2023 bring on the tabletop?
Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two …
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2022/12/27/new-gaming-year-ir-resolutions-2023/
New Gaming Year Ir-Resolutions for 2023?
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Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures. I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures. Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules. To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ... View all posts by 26soldiersoftin
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Born in 1954 I was somewhat older than you when the Falklands War started.
Two years later I moved to within a long stone’s throw of Greenham Common and now live half a mile from the Aldermaston AWE site.
I’ve long been aware that if everything goes “tits up” I won’t be around long enough to see much of it.
Happy New Year!
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You could start Cold War tourism tours. Useful trivia fact – I understand that the nuclear landscape of Greenham Common is also the site of the very vicious rabbit struggles of Richard Adams’ Watership Down.
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I have always believed Watership Down to be to the north of Newbury, but I may be wrong.
The Greenham Common airfield is returned to common land now, except for an industrial estate based on ex USAF buildings on the south side.
Odd things like US fire hydrants are still dotted about, and the old missile bunkers are fenced off – to be used only by “Top Gear” or “Star Wars” filming.
Until dismantled as part of the “end of Cold War” negotiations it was the emergency runway if Heathrow could not be used. Now there is no fall-back!
Tour 1 ends.
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Thank you for Tour 1!
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