Like most of you, I've followed Murphy's ongoing accounts of the goings on in Bongolesia and environs. They're good reading but I have plenty of other long-term projects that I really didn't want to start yet another genré and ruleset – namely banana republic brush wars and the AK-47 ruleset.
Also like most of you, I've managed to collect miniatures that can be best described as "tangental" to my main areas of interest. In this particular case, I picked up some large lots of 1/87 models in pursuit of some specific pieces or the other, and wound up with other models that didn't fit into my plans. Sure the 1960s civilian vehicles would make good obstacles/terrain/targets for my 1966 Germans vs. Soviet battles
- once I got enough T-54s for my Leopards to shoot at, that is. But then there all those one-off Soviet vehicles that came in another packet.
Certainly can't make a unit out of a BDRM, two armored recon vehicles and a SP howitzer.
And then, there are the 15 Barreiros TT-90-21 trucks and massive numbers of Land Rovers.
Quite the hodgepodge, and none of the other 1/87 people want them. It's almost like I'm equipping a third world army…
Dammit Murphy!
Of course, I finally figure out that the T-62s that I did a bulk buy of, won't work for 1966 Europe. I probably only need 20 of them for an Iraqi force, but I need to get my modern US painted up first. So, that leaves me something like 30 more to build and find a use for.
hey, those Malawian paint schemes look interesting…
Lastly, there are those two civilian airplane models my dad built back in the '50s that I've been cleaning up.
And those Soviet helos that, like the Bundeswehr models are hanging around until I find those T-54s…
Dang it.
I guess random circumstance has lead me to this. I went and used my Christmas Brookhurst Hobbies money on Peter Pig figures and an AK-47 rulebook and now we have the Republic of Todjammo – the former Portuguese colony known for its export of banana aguardiente liquor and anything else banana.Governed by a benign(?) dictatorship from the capitol of Pulfinga and defended by the Forças Armadas da República da Todjammo (F.A.R.T.) who vigilantly guard against intrusions by the Bongolesian African Revolutionary Front (B.A.R.F.) and incursions from its neighbor, the Republic de Bunji.
Yeah, I had a lot of the stuff already, but before Murphy these were merely half-started projects, polystyrene languishing in the face of other priorities. Now, however, thanks to Murphy, they have a mission, a purpose, a priority – and even a nation!
And that, goys and churls, is why I blame Murphy.
Submitted respectfully,
Wyatt
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