The stores are so brightly-bright and yellowy-yellow you can't tell which way up they are or read the 'STORES' stamped on the tops, but painted or heavy-washed/weathered they would make useful vehicle loads or objective-markers in gaming.
About Me
- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Sunday, May 9, 2021
T is for Trek, No Star!
Another quick box-ticking of a board game,
mentioned in passing a few times but it passed under my nose on it's way from
the garage to a shipping container the other day so I fired-off a few shots,
well; enough for a .gif (not spelled Jif!), and dug out some older shots which
have been seen elsewhere, but not here before.
It is what it is; a competitive collecting
of stuff for a final race type mechanism, but the 'stuff ' is of real use to
war-gamers, being a large number of jeeps, pack mules and stores crates, so - bargain!
Playing pieces are 30mm flat explorers looking
through telescopes, in a 'European Margarine Premium' style, made of a hard/brittle
polystyrene, with provision for six players.
Jeeps are good-enough for 20/25mm war
gaming, the pack animals are brilliant, but sadly only the one pose, so need to
be mixed in with Atlantic (three
variations?) and Pegasus (one or
two?) or even cast-metal beasts of burden. Strangely, while the player-pieces are so brittle, the rest is manufactured in soft polyethylene?
With some conversions (Airfix ANZAC's married to commando legs) as a scaler, that’s yer'
very actual Spear's board game; Trek, done and dusted!
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4 comments:
Looks interesting. Any fun playing?
I don't know Jan, I've never played it! Really I aught to try and play them all once? It looks like the Geronimo game I had on the Blog years ago, you have to collect so much stuff to progress, and cards keep knocking you back?
H
Kind of reminds me of life.
Indeed Jan, indeed!
H
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