Wheels and Wargames II - A Kind Gesture

Just a brief addendum to a post I made a week or two ago about my longstanding fascination with public transport and my perceived overlap of this fascination with an interest in things military.

On reading my post a friend made an extraordinarily kind gesture and gave me his collection of 1/76 scale buses, a collection he had been accumulating for some years but had never seen the light of day. He thought the buses deserved a measure of love and admiration that he felt unable to provide, and I was happy to be able to assure him with the utmost confidence that they would receive this chez moi. They are now indeed occupying a shelf with pride of place in my lounge, although for the moment they are having to share it with some incongruities. That Pharoah’s head will have to go elsewhere I think, and ditto those protective dragons from Hong Kong, although I fear the consequences of invoking their ire by anything that might be seen as a demotion.

There were no fewer than sixteen vehicles in the collection but I have included only a sample of them in the photographs I have inserted here; those uninterested in such things would hardly want more, while those who do share that passion…well, I wouldn’t want to set too many hearts a flutter.

The buses will make me a collector again in a small way. I plan to expand their number, and, again with a nod to the donor, the plan is to acquire vehicles from fleets that represent places in which I have spent time of some significance, whether in the UK or abroad. I rather like the idea of a memoir written in buses. New acquisitions will almost certainly find their way into a blog post from time to time, quite possibly along with some very self-indulgent description of their significance, so you have been warned.

So, many thanks again to the donor if he is reading; it only goes to show what thoroughly kind and thoughtful people one meets among the wargaming community.