Where was I said the emails at Alternative Armies this morning.  No blog posts over the weekend and few last week too.  It is great to know that people miss my musings but alas I was working hard doing the things that I can later tell you all about here…but wait you say, this only covers the week days since we all know you don’t go to the office at the weekend.  I hold my hands up in placating fashion and by way of reply I say that it is not my fault…I was captured and made to work…on the house.  Yes, those who know me will know that handiman jobs and such make me break out in a cold sweat but it was not that oh no…we were emptying out the attic!

I have lived in Girvan now for nearly eight years and in that time the dark recesses of the attic have seen me only a dozen or so times.  Those times mainly just to chuck stuff into it!  We had managed to file quite a large space with boxes and bags of stuff right to the rafters and my good lady said it was time for it all to go as it was creeping into the spare bedroom.  I did manage to avoid the sorting phase but, and I kid you not, the fifty big bags that went to the tip, the thirty or so that went to charity and then and only then in a drip of sweat the nine boxes of mine that ended up in my own room.  But just what was in them?  They had been sealed ten years ago…

A small look at the piles. There are five in total.

It turned out to be a hundred pounds of papers from my university days (why did I keep them?) and a box of clothes…all too small, and then…yes…the remains of my vintage wargaming collection!

As you can see from the picture (one of several piles out of the boxes) I have quite a lot of stuff from the 1980’s and 1990’s.  I cannot go into detail but I do have among the gems the following:

• Battletech Boxed Set.  First Edition.
• Stargrunt II along with a pile of GZG miniatures.
• Chainsaw Warrior (GW)
• Block Mania (GW)
• Mega Mania (GW)
• Dark Future boxed set (GW)
• Mighty Empires boxed set (GW)
• Robotech Miniatures and RPG Books.
• Cyberpunk RPG books.
• Centurion boxed set.
• Every Issue of Valkyrie Magazine.
• Twenty or more small press RPG titles.
• Thirty plus small press  Wargame rules titles.
• Chronopia.
• Raven.
• 1st Edition Flintloque, Deadloque, Grapeshotte (bought with my own tin!).
• Star Fleet Battles boxed set and books.

So a useful job done.  Not at all interesting or productive to me though.  But not wasted time certainly.  I enjoyed flicking though books I had only fond memories of.

GBS