Saturday 20 February 2016

Winter of '79

Having lived through the 70s including the Winter of Discontent, I am attracted to the Winter of 79 British insurrection game.

Just what I need, a new project.

Picked up a few suitable kits in 20mm, taps nose........

16 comments:

  1. Good luck with this! I too love this "period" and served in the 80's ... the Soviet figures look good, not seen that box for years.

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    1. It is in sale in my local shop, Rochester Model's.

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  2. Oddly enough, that's exactly the reason that puts me off....

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    1. I remember the 70s with nostalgia.

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    2. Me too. My recollections do not have a GB on the brink of civil war. Berlin, Aden, Belize, Rhodesia and so on would all be OK.

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    3. I agree. This is like 1938, a pure fantasy - but fun. The left were a bunch of civil servants, students and university lecturers and the right, silly old gin-drinking has beens. Revolutionaries, pah! As Lenin would undoubtedly have said.

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  3. Yep no interest from me in this period as I lived through all the pain caused by said Winter.

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    1. For most people though the 70s are a great era where ordinary people had access to consumer items for the first time.

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  4. Could also be research for an alternate history novel too.

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    1. I think Douglas Hard wrote one many years ago.

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    2. Harvey Black as well, for 'cold war gone hot' stuff.

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