It's Friday! Lets have a Sale

I am so happy that this week is coming to a close. Both my son and wife were sick with strep this week. I managed to avoid catching it so far. I have a nice date night set for my wife and my mother in law is watching my son. If all goes well, I may even have time to paint tomorrow.

In order to celebrate the weekend, I am going to put all of my books on sale for 50% off from now until the end of the month (3/31/2015). Now, if you want to take an additional $1.00 off the price, mention the sale on your blog and post the link to the article here. Now even if you don't take advantage of this deal, please post a reference to this on your page as someone else may want to. (Pretty please)

The prices end up being:

Book	Original Price	Sale Price	Link Price
The Falcon and the Gladiator	$10.00	$5.00	$4.00
The Coming Thunder	$10.00	$5.00	$4.00
In the Name of Roma	$11.00	$5.50	$4.50
CSS Appomattox*	$2.99	$1.49	$0.49
Air Campaign for the Western Desert	$4.00	$2.00	$1.00

* - This is a Kindle Book. Let me know and I will send you either the Mobi file or an ePub file (your preference).

How do you get this deal? First, Do NOT click on the buy now links. Instead, post the money to my paypal account and make note of the books that you are interested in. I will e-mail you the files you are interested in.

Regardless, Have a great weekend folks.

Random Rambles

I am still seized by a lethargy. I have not managed to get any painting or games in this year. The first quarter of the year is almost over. It is very frustrating.

I am getting a little bit of reading in. I received a book from the Depressive Diplomatist a while back that is sitting on my bedside table. It is an excellent book covering the Soviet view of Operation Barbarossa in 1941. Its slow progress as it is mixed in with other stuff I am reading.

Anyway, thanks for hanging in there with me despite the slow updates.

Where has the time gone?

Between work and family, February has just rocketed past. My last post was almost a month ago. And what have I accomplished in that time? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

It is very depressing. So far I have one M113 that has been painted this year. I have played 0 games. I have two games to play test and have done neither. And I have done no work on my ACW scenario supplement.

But it is still early march. It can be fixed. Once I am back from dealing with some family issues, I am going to make every effort to do something. Afterall, life is short.

Painting Progress - Cold War Chain of Command

Finally, I got around to working on my IrishSerb M113s. They have been assembled and undercoated so far. I managed to get one of them painted up. I had a nice template that I found on-line detailing MERDC camo patterns. Take a look, they are rather useful. My wife and son helped me pick some craft paints to use for this. To my poor eyes they look ok.

Now it still needs some work. I want to use some washes on it and do some more work on the tracks. I was just happy to get something done.

Finally something accomplished

I was able to get started last night for the first time this year. I broke out the superglue and an exacto knife and began work assembling my Irish Serb made M113s that I bought at the end of last year. These are great kits. They are resin and come in seven parts. The bow machine gun is very fidly but I was able to find some pointers on Irish Serb's blog. He recommended assembling the MG and mount prior to attaching it to the hull. Even my fat fingers managed the task. So the net result of my first bit of hobby work for the year.... one assembled M113.

I have three more to go. What I did find to help me once I start painting was a painting template for the M113 in MERDEC camo. I already have the paints I need and I am looking forward to giving it a shot. I am also exceedingly glad I only have 4 of these to do.

Now I need some recommendations. What would be good support elements for my Mechanized Platoon? It seems that an M150 (an M113 with a TOW launcher) is a good idea. Maybe a couple of jeeps as well with either TOW, recoilless Rifle or MG mounted. Would an M113 ACAV be worthwhile? Lastly, what armor to look at? For the 1982 timeframe in Germany, would an M60A2 be out of place?