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    Redeployment complete - Now, where did I put ….

    The big move in January completed successfully.  We’re now entrenched in the big house with the business operating from the large extension at the front.
    The family certainly appreciates the extra space, and the business sorely needed it’s own premises and facilities.  The new unified moulding and casting room is ready for action, but as yet, [...]

    The LRL Depot

    The Long Range Logistics Depot is our online store where you can browse and buy all our wargames model ranges, and more.

    Building The Depot and the Forward Post (this front end to the site) took just over a year, and we hope we've got thing just the way you like them? To let us know, you can -

    - Leave comments on any article here in the Forward Post
    - Register in The Depot and leave reviews of models you've bought here or elsewhere.
    - Contact us direct by using the Contact Us Form.

    We'll be running competitions in the future, based on photographs of your painting and your conversion jobs of our models, so have a good look round the Long Range Logistics Depot now, and start planning your entries.

Intelligence Reports

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The First Somme Campaign - August 1346 (The Road to Crecy) by Garry Harbottle-Johnson Bibliography, Conclusions, and Hindsight Conclusions and Hindsight Apart from the obvious ...

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The First Somme Campaign - August 1346 (The Road to Crecy) by Garry Harbottle-Johnson Battle of Blanquetaque Ford August 1346 Knights are not Marines Having ...

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The First Somme Campaign - August 1346 (The Road to Crecy) by Garry Harbottle-Johnson Battle of Oisemont August 1346 A Forlorn Hope The action on ...

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The First Somme Campaign - August 1346 (The Road to Crecy) by Garry Harbottle-Johnson The Battle of Abbeville 23rd August 1346 The Betrayal by, ...

Road to Crecy 1346 - The Somme Campaign - Overview

The First Somme Campaign - August 1346 (The Road to Crecy) by Garry Harbottle-Johnson The Somme Campaign - Overview The Campaign on the Somme Arriving ...

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The First Somme Campaign - August 1346 (The Road to Crecy) by Garry Harbottle-Johnson Campaign-march to the Somme The Campaign before the Somme Originally, Edward ...

New Designs

New Model Previews - GS07 & 08 Frontier Cabins

Two new 15mm AWI-ACW-Frontier Log & Shingle Cabins have been released to production and will be available from the Long Range Logistics Depot before Christmas.

GS07 and GS08 are in our modular building style and the rooves can be exchanged with the S&S17 Village Smithy if you want a tiled roof with half timbered gables, rather than the hipped shape of the default roof supplied with these two models.


New Releases - Colonised Asteroid Field (Series 1)

Colonised Asteroid Field
Series 1 Available Now

Available now in The Depot, the first four packs of a new space micro range of colonised / industrialised / militarised asteroids have been released.

Priced at under £2.00 per pack, they’re also lightweight and don’t add much to your shipping costs …


Reconaissance Reports

RTAF Air Museum Bangkok Model Show 27-28 Dec 08

I’ve received a tip-off from a wargaming friend in Bangkok that the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) Museum in Bangkok is to host a model show between Christmas and New Year on 27th & 28th December 2008.
Right now further details are sketchy and I’ve not been able to find any information on the internet. [...]


Bordegarde goes to … Warfare ‘08, UK

Bordegarde
“Trees don’t bark back”

Warfare is one of my personal favourite shows of the year, and you can view this report in light of that.  Apart from the fact that it is relatively close to me (a couple of hours easy drive ), I have built up a comfortable routine for the weekend [...]


Projects and Ideas

LRL Painted Models on eBay this week

I’ve been doing a bit of tidying up in the workshop this week and have added several lots of painted models onto eBay in auction.
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WW2 German 15mm Pz IV F2 Company HQ 2 Tanks & Crew

The first batch is a pair of Battlefront Panzer IV F-2’s painted as a company HQ for the Hitler [...]


Scuttlebutt

Here we go again … another month, another move

The best laid plans of mice and men … as they say.
Having taken ten years to find the house size and style I really wanted from the outset of living in Thailand, and having moved in and settled nicely in January this year, it’s time to put everything back into boxes and relocate again.
This time [...]


Redeployment complete - Now, where did I put ….

The big move in January completed successfully.  We’re now entrenched in the big house with the business operating from the large extension at the front.
The family certainly appreciates the extra space, and the business sorely needed it’s own premises and facilities.  The new unified moulding and casting room is ready for action, but as yet, [...]