Unplanned Additions

I was browsing our local version of EBay, called Trade Me, for the first time in ages a week ago, when I noticed a seller had some Copplestone RCW figures up for sale - starting at NZ$40 for 55 Figures  - that's about £20 in sterling, I jumped on and put in a few bids but another buyer obviously had an auto bid on and the price had soon reached over $80, so I stopped - 5 packs of Copplestone brand new might cost around $100, but I don't really need this many more Bolsheviks anyway, so decided to quit. The same seller also had a listing for 53 Tsuba Russo Japanese War Japanese infantry figures - I put in a bid of $60 and nothing happened - I was leading the auction! I did nothing more till a few days later, an email turned up, informing me I had won the auction. So I am now the proud owner of these rather nice figures that I am sure I can find a use for in the inter war Pulp era - and at a current price of £8.50 ($17) per bag of 4, this purchase represents a pretty good bargain - 53 figures for the price of 16 by my calculation.

Here is a description of the contents of the pack:

"55 x 28mm Japanese Infantry for Sino, Russo-Japanese, Back of Beyond, WW1 etc. These are very nice Tusba Miniatures figures. There are:

43 Infantry and NCOs 2 Casualty figs 1 Medic running 1 Bugler 1 Standard bearer 5 Various officers

Plus 2 Machine guns with 2 crew each (they are missing the Tsuba pack figure with ammo box but you can add an officer to each for crew or the kneeling NCO)"

So another flutter of the butterflies wings! I have done a bit of work on some more of the Perry Afrika Korps over the last couple of evenings and should have them ready for show and tell in a couple of days.