World traveller

Meet this world traveller. There may be less travel occurring from a human perspective at present, but this parcel nearly made up for it single-handedly.

Quite often the tracking for a package is pretty basic and unedifying. You know, departed country A, in transit for weeks (or months) and then suddenly turns up. Not so with this little fella. The tracking made for great ‘entertainment' in its own right.

It was an order that I made with Michael at 1/72 Legions in Plastic Depot. It left him on 27th August, and departed the U.S. on the 31st August. From there it travelled to Dubai, as you do when going US to Australia, arriving there on 1st October. After a whirlwind tour of some of the sites of antiquity (the figures are ancients) it headed to Sydney, arriving 10th of October. Leaving Sydney the next day, it headed over to here in the west of Australia, but was not processed until 7th November. Then, it finally traversed the hundred kilometres or so to arrive here late on Friday afternoon for me to collect today.

Boy, did it have some tales to tell.

I had ordered a box of Caesar's Egyptian Chariot and Ykreol Dead German warriors, both of which are a bit rare as well as a 'Custom Blend' of Michael's. This one was called 'Roman Republic Army Battle Set' and is a wonderful mix of brands and types of figures, predominantly Republican Romans, but few related types too. There was a Carthaginian, a Trojan, a couple of Greeks, some Airfix Romans (Imperial) as well as a sprue based on the Airfix figures from Barcelona Universal Models (you can make the acronym—Francisco has a good sense of humour) which includes a one-horse version of the chariot and some other slight variations.

The main contents: a custom blend from 1/72 Legions in Plastic Depot

Looking inside.

The 'custom blend' laid out as presented on Michael's website.

Two real bonuses in this blend: a sprue from Barcelona Universal Models based on Airfix Romans, ...

and an unknown, Roman chariot driver/rider presumably from a toy soldier set of pirate figures.

I always enjoy a mixed lot of figures and this was no exception. All going well, I'll make good progress with my current painting and then will be ready to make some serious in-roads into my ancients early next year so as to try out 'Lost Battles'.