The adventure of the last few years has been slightly disrupting when it comes to anything gaming related, coupled with the ease with which I can find both distraction and procrastination. I can’t, really, say I have done much when it comes to the hobby.

So, I don’t know what took me down the rabbit hole of nostalgia but into that maze I ventured. First wondering when my old friend Thomo had first mentioned our games (27th August 2011), and then seeing that he was inspirational for much of the lead-pile and the accompanying “confusion of scales” that still haunts my hobby desk today. This post, early in our friendship, led me back to a moment when, with Thomo gloating, I had contemplated divesting everything 20mm WW2 in favour of the convenience of 15mm and the conformity that would give me across my collection.

Luckily this never happened. 

The foray into WW2 15mm spluttered out as soon as it began, and while I did later flirt with 28mm and Bolt Action, I have remained a committed 20mm player when it comes to WW2.

And since I am “stuck” in Mumbai for the foreseeable future, and while the family is enjoying life in Singapore, I have been very (very) slowly using my time to dabble in rounding off a few projects I have had on the radar, mainly terrain, a few rebasing “bits and bobs” and maybe some small painting efforts. There is a certain irony, that I recognise, in realising that it has taken me leaving Singapore to finally begin my WW2 Far East project.

I think Thomo would appreciate (or so I hope) the beginnings of my efforts for future campaigns in Malaya: a Lanchester Mk2. 6×4 armoured car.