A Second Christmas Gift to myself

Towards the end of last year I mentioned that I'd ordered two items from Caliver Books as a Christmas gift to myself. These were a copy of Midgard, which I went on to blather about, and also the Wargamers' Annual 2025, which I made no further mention of at the time. If you'll bear with me now I'd like to put that right in this post.

I must admit to a fondness for this very Old School concept, a Christmas annual for wargamers of my vintage I'd guess, a nostalgic throwback to Christmas annuals of childhood! In fact I own the full set, including the Summer annuals that featured for a number of years, and often enjoy dipping back into earlier iterations. But this year's has given me cause to pause and reflect more than usual. The fact is that the first article was penned by Peter Nicholson, one half of The Iron Brigade (with Kevin Calder), who sadly passed away unexpectedly towards the end of the year, while the last article was by Tim Hall on his experience in dealing with a large Wargamers' bereavement sale. Obviously Peter's estate must include a large element of figures, terrain and books which perhaps his family have little idea of either value or avenues of disposal? 

Tim's article is timely there perhaps, but also in a wider context relevant to those of us with veteran status and decent sized collections. I know I've blathered on about this issue more than once, but I felt the article in question had a wider application so I invite you to get hold of a copy if you need the benefit of Tim's advice and experience in either planning or dealing with disposal of a wargames collection.

To end though on a more cheerful and positive note, I continue to recover from my bout of "Theres a lot of it about!" and have managed some painting in short sessions. Some Wargames Foundry Late Roman/Arthurian infantry, of which more in due course I'd hope.