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Constructed King Tiger

In the process of sorting some old gaming stuff out I found a bundle of old SDD models. These are 15mm metal castings that I bought back in the 1990s. It makes me think that the other metal models that I have been painting are also SDD.

This box was mainly late war stuff and included a King Tiger. The model consists of four parts: a pair of tracks, the hull and a turret. This is a very nice clean casting, but is quite a heavy model as a result.

It went together very easily, but doesn’t quite sit flat.

Certainly not as detailed as the Flames of War model, the next stage will be a white undercoat.

Not long now…

It’s not going to be long now and the Flames of War M24 Chaffee will be released. It will be announced on the Flames of War website tomorrow and it looks like the release date will be sometime in September.

The Carentan House

With the arrival of The Carentan House this morning it does appear that I am subscribed to the Flames of War house subscription deal.

The Carentan House

It’s a very nice model and it certainly complements the Calais House that was released last month.

King Tiger

This box was mainly late war stuff and included a King Tiger.

The model consists of four parts: a pair of tracks, the hull and a turret. This is a very nice clean casting, but is quite a heavy model as a result.

Flames of War Humber Armoured Cars

The Humber Armoured Car was one of the most widely produced British armoured cars of the Second World War. It supplemented the Humber Light Reconnaissance Car and remained in service until the end of the war.

From Simon’s collection.

"The House Subscription Deal is now sold out"

If you were thinking of doing the subscription deal for the new houses from Battlefront you are now out of luck as the House Subscription Deal is now sold out.

The main advantage of the deal was the free shipping, the guarantee that you would get every house released and all the extras too.

As a bonus for subscribing to the full set you will receive an add-on set, including villagers, monuments, walls and other urban extras to the value of two houses. We will also throw in free shipping as an added bonus.

So it sounds like you’ll get these walls and the monument.

Not sure if that bonus includes the extensions?

Well I am very pleased with my Calais House which arrived today. It is really nicely done.

Update: The Calais House has also sold out, so if you want one you will need to check your local shop, but I suspect you would need to be quite lucky to get one.

Buying a house

This month sees the initial release of the Normandy style houses from Battlefront. The first model is the Calais House.

They do seem to have been very popular, with lots of pre-orders.

Our first steps into the real estate market have proved even more rewarding than we had anticipated with our first property, a sunny little house in Calais, selling so fast that we will probably be out before the end of the week. The reason I bring this up is that currently we have orders from our stores around the world far exceeding the supply and we are only three days into solicitation. As our original plan was to make a set number and then have a new one come each month we are overjoyed by the response but we will not be making more of the first house. We will have no choice but to allocate stock to stores to be as fair as possible and give at least some to everybody that has made orders.

It looks like the Calais house will sell out imminently and may have even sold out by the time you read this. After some consideration I did go and order mine, I was hoping to buy it from a local shop, but if the pre-orders are anything to go by then I would probably never have managed to get one.
I did consider doing the subscription deal, but not sure if I want ALL the buildings…