Showing posts with label Robert Audin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Audin. Show all posts

Thursday, 3 March 2016

And There Are Prizes!!!

As promised, I'm marking my 600th blog post with prizes (partly because I never got around to running a giveaway for my 500th).

The rules are simple:-

  • Each of the prizes below will be given away by drawing names on 15 March 2016.
  • To enter you have to be a follower of the blog and post a comment on this post saying which prizes you would be interested in.
  • The prizes will be drawn in the order they are listed below.  No one will win more than one prize, so the winner's name will be removed from subsequent draws (but see below).
  • The memorial prize is special.  Therefore the winner can also be considered for other prizes.
  • Merely for my own interest, and to butter me up, I'd like to know what you enjoy most about the blog, or what your favorite post has been.
Special Prize



In my mind I think of this one as the Robert Audin memorial prize.  These four books represent Victorian gothic horror, and I'd like them to go to someone who'd get real inspiration from them - either for their own writing or for gaming.

Other Prizes


Prize 1 - basically a picture book - images evocative of the UK's role in the Cold War.


Prize 2 - An English Heritage book - full of colour pictures of sites and re-enactors of various battles.


Prize 3 - Booklets that might be of interest, inc a Minifigs catalogue from  the 70s or 80s.  The Flags and Standards of the Napoleonic Wars is water damaged, but still useable.


Prize 4 - Booklets on WWII aviation


Prize 5 - Military museum guides.


Prize 6 - Vehicles (28mm for scale only).


Prize 7 - A Gripping Beast Hereward the Wake figure (white metal, 28mm).


Prize 8 - A 1:76 Landrover kit.


Prize 9 - A Hawker P.1127 and a Sea Hawk kit.


Prize 10 - A 1:72 Spitfire kit.

Sunday, 28 February 2016

Robert Audin



I was saddened today to read a note on FaceBook of the death of Robert Audin.

I'd never met him, but he was a follower of (and frequent commentator on) this blog and I followed his excellent Fiends in Waistcoats.

I shall miss reading his apposite and witty comments - and finding out more of the Great Zombie Outbreak of 1888!*

Rest in Peace Friend.

* I was honoured to have inspired 'The Gentleman from Norwich'