ALY MORRISON'S "BUTTERFLY" ADVENTURES IN THE WORLD OF WARGAMES AND TOY SOLDIERS

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

More New Toys

Greetings...


More new toys have arrived... Hurrah!
I am going to treat these as birthday presents... mostly because its my birthday...






More Romans... This time from A&A...
 https://www.aandaminiatures.co.uk/


There are some Armoured Archers, Unarmoured Camelry and some Infantry from their 4th Century range... which are rather nice ... I thought I might push the Roman forces a bit closer to the turn of the (4th) century so I can indulge in some civil war stabby-ness...with two slightly different looking forces...these guys are wearing a more Germanic looking Plumed Spangenhelm...which fits in with the on going Germanisation of the Roman Army's of this period .








I also got some Fire Forge plastic spears/lances...
I love these... I have used them throughout this collection... I only wish they had Pila/Pilums...


Mine came from North Star...
https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=124&cat=499&page=1




All the best...  Aly












35 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday and no better way to celebrate than with new toys, huzzah!

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    1. Thank you Phil...
      I find that I am always very generous about giving me birthday toys...

      All the best. Aly

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  2. Happy birthday Aly.. have a great day.
    Cheers Mike

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  3. Happy birthday Aly. Nice prezzies. Look forward to seeing the camelry.
    You're in good company it's my son's birthday and...my dog's! 😁

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    1. Thank you Stuart...
      All the best people... and dogs were born on the 19th of May...😁

      All the best. Aly

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  4. Happy Birthday. Enjoy your toys and whatever good eats are on the menu.

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  5. Happy birthday Aly, nice to know we have a similar outlook to our birthdays. It's always a good excuse to treat ourself and at least we are never disappointed.
    Have a great day

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    1. Thank you Graham...
      I think when you get to a certain age... the only person that knows what you want..
      Is yourself 😁

      All the best. Aly

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  6. Great stuff Aly...it's good to see that essential services continue to operate despite Covid 19! That's a goodly collection of new toys that have arrived chez Aly in the last few days. Happy Birthday too. It's my daughters 21st today (Weds 20 May here in NZ)

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    1. Thank you Keith...
      Necessary supplies always get through...😁
      I hope you managed to have some sort of celebration for your daughter...

      All the best. Aly

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  7. Happy Birthday Aly, enjoy your new toys! One can never have too many you realise?

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    1. Thank you David...
      Toys and birthdays.... the more the merrier...

      All the best. Aly

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  8. Happy birthday always good to treat yourself..... 👍

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  9. Happy birthday Aly. Enjoy the new toys. Looking forward to seeing your ancients in action at some point. All the best. Phil

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    1. Thank you Phil...
      A few more Sassanids and then it will be time for battle.

      All the best. Aly

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  10. Happy Birthday Aly. Enjoy the new toys.

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  11. Well done that man...another year younger! And great toys. I do like the look of those plastic lances... I can see many a use for them.

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    1. Thank you Mark...
      The plastic lances are indeed very useful...

      All the best. Aly

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  12. Lovely birthday present, I do like the A and A miniatures, I possibly still have around thirty to complete and my 4th century army is completely painted. Although thinking about some western limitani/ legions now plus more Goths!

    Did not know about the spears must look at that

    Cheers
    Matt

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    1. Thank you Matt...
      You do know that nothing is completely painted 😁

      All the best. Aly

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  13. Happy belated birthday Aly in these undoubtedly strange times!
    I wish you happiness, health, fun and everything you wish for, and hope the covid situation will end soon and you will have an opportunity to meet and play wargames with the others!

    As to the minis a great birthday treat! I looked at their website and especially like the camels. Pity they don't sell these separate as it would be great to put the Arab riders on them and use them for my 1st crusade project... But well...taking into account my addiction I might get them anyway ;-)

    All the best,
    Jan

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    1. Thank you Jan...
      Yes it’s going to be nice when we can get back to playing with our toys...
      If you are going to get the camels anyway... you may as well start a 4th Century Roman project as well ... you know you want to...😁

      All the best. Aly

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    2. Not a bad idea to have them painted and fly over to Nottingham for a game ;-)

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  14. Shiny new toys are a must in the current climate never mind if it's your Birthday! :>)

    I took the liberty of opening the image in a new tab and noticed tha Clubmen, which you're going to need against all those Cats and Clibs!

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    1. Oh! Yes...
      What’s not to love about a bunch of Palestinian club men...

      All the best. Aly

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  15. More lovely shiny stuff, what's not to like about 4th century Roman's and camels, happy belated birthday, you share it with my godson who is now 40!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thank you Iain.
      It was clearly a good day to be born... we share it with Andre the Giant.

      All the best. Aly

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