Trophies from Battlefields

        It is rare any more that I am in "acquisition mode". Having been in the hobby for over a half-century I just don't have much need to go hunting, that being said there are occasions where Life just throws you a slow one right down the center and you simply have to take a swing! I was presented with just such an occasion at Battlefields this last Saturday, a couple of opportunities that were just too good to let pass. Behold the booty I secured on the field of Battlefields!

 

as I was running my demo game of Midgard the Housemartin was perusing the Flea Market and spotted this assemblage, Turks, lots of them! and painted to boot! this bevy of 15mm beauties was offered at the princely sum of US$20 (the minis alone would cost thrice that to but as bare metal) I have been looking to add to my 15mm Turks so that they could play a more prominent role in my occasional Renaissance campaign, despite the need to re-base them I snagged these with unseemly haste
 

having finished my game and packing up my toys I took a spin around the Flea Market tables myself, I was delighted to find this little gem for only ten dollars, I have an interest in off the beaten track campaigns so this buttered both sides of my toast! the Manchurian Campaign between Japan and Russia AND the Second Sino-Japanese conflict with a digestif of the lopsided Russian riposte in 1945 to finish the volume