johnbiggles

I have discovered quite a lot of 1/144 jets are available as kits, but they can be quite expensive. Brengun and Mark1 make some early jets which look good, probably going to do a 'what if' against some martians...

So happy to back!

I've spoken to Rob, and Keith is working on it, so hopefully all will be well soon

I am having serious trouble logging in at the moment, I keep getting an "unsafe site" warning. I was wondering if Keith had started the migration until I got a notification from the site. I am only able to login by overriding my internet security settings. Is it me?

Regards WW1 first slot, Whispering Death and Mrs Biggles are offering to run T and T if that is acceptable and no-one else has anything to offer. Will you accept the challenge and die like gentlemen, or run screaming as the ladies unleash their alien hordes? And yes, they are proposing to be the aliens and take on all comers.

Hi All, Train Busting. For those who haven't seen or played this, it was a demo/participation game run at a few shows to demonstrate WW2 Wings of Glory on a smaller scale than the Battle of Britain set up. 4 Whirlwinds attack a train, while 4 Bf109es appear to beat them off/destroy them. This is quite a short game for up to 8 players. As we have a 2 hour slot, we will begin in late 1940-early '41, but respawn through the months into 1942. The British will have the options for Spitfire IIa, IIb, Whirlibombers, SpitfireVb and Spitfire IXs. The Germans may have 1 Bf110 at any time, and move through 109 f2s f4s/g2s and end up with Fw190 A3/4s. These raids on French infrastructure and German airfields were designed to get the German fighters up to be then thumped by escorting squadrons of Spitfires and other fighters, while the Whirlwinds ran for home. In the game the Whirlies will try to kill the train then dogfight the Germans, respawning as whatever is right for the changing date. Same with the Germans Multiple trains can be run to keep things interesting, and as an excuse to fly Whirlibombers. My altitude rules will be in use, e.g. when a pilot wishes to climb they will use a small blue chit with a C to climb with any manouver card with a white arrow, diving will be a chit with a D and any blue arrow. Team points may be won for successfully destroying the train (which will include Flak cars) and on the other side by successfully shooting down all designated Train Busters. Other wise it is 2 points for a kill, and -1 point for being shot down. Amy will be assisting me in running the game, to help keep score and to make sure no-one gets too excited and gets ahead of the game turns. I hope enough of you are interested to fly all 8 spaces so I can concentrate on running things, but the number of players must be the same on each side. If it looks like one side has an unfair advantage in aircraft types, players can swap sides at half time. Mostly though, just have fun.

Hi Mike, Mrs Biggles and Hannah are both interested in your game, hopefully that will give you better numbers to work with.

I am going through this thread, trying to get a coherent grip on what is happening, and finding out what the ladies wish to play, and I see lots of questions about Friday afternoon. We are hoping to make it by 3:30pm, and will bring tripods v triplanes if there is a table free

Not sure what I am doing, probably with my other group as usual for Partizan these days.

I don't log in as often as I perhaps should, but I saw the red headline, had a quick look and donated, then went through the rest of this chain. I am also on SoG, though I haven't been on it in over a year Sorry Rob. I think that as we are approaching $2,500 we keep going to see if we can hit the necessary figures to save both sites, they both serve as connections for an international community of like minded souls and have great value because of that.

Photo re-attached. They're still not quite finished, but I wanted to share the progress, this being the end of the month

My schwarm of 109 g4s for a guessed at 5JG2, around May to August 1943. Not sure on the red v black number codes, but I had red available. The Staffel leader's plane is loosely based on a Bf109f2 flown by Hans Hahn of IIIJG2 in 1942. I liked the red nose and tail, it sort of goes with the red numbers, and is an homage, to the Red Baron

My work bench at the moment, Bf109f4/G4 courtesy of BRS, (g6s with the fuselage gun covers filed down), Whirlibombers and a 28mm naughty lady for a cowboy game amongst other things

Hi Chris, the Biggles clan will be there, might bring the Martians if anyone is interested