Ahh thanks to Nuplex’s customer support we’ve now been collectively enlightened about their product range.

Polyplex 3008 with its gel time of up to 100 minutes and reduced shrinkage would be superb for water effects particularly since it can be poured up to 3 litres at a time! Alas Nuplex only sell Polyplex 3008 in a 20 litre tin for $220 NZ. Ack! Twenty litres of resin would allow me to produce several tabletop oceans…

Polyplex 3089 is less desirable because it has a much shorter gel time of up to 50 minutes (with only 0.5% of hardener) and can’t be poured in more than a 5mm layer but it is sold in 1 litre tins for $27NZ. Layering is a hassle and suggests that the resin shrinks as it cures. However I guess the upside is you can apply different coloured layers with embedded items for some more interesting effects…

Dustan from the PitYak forums has pointed out that NuPlex in Auckland supply clear casting encapsulating resin of several types. They sell to the public and I’ve rung and emailed them to get some prices. If they fail to respond I may just take my young son for a little drive on Friday morning!

Played a 1200pt game of Flames of War against Aaron last night. We both had air support (his was limited, mine was sporadic) and due to poor rolling on both our parts, all the air support that arrived did the most damage to the home side!

Aaron’s yanks suffered the loss of one Sherman and several Infantry teams to friendly fire and the lone RAF plane that arrived in the closing stages of the battle ’successfully’ destroyed two Stuart ‘Honey’ light tanks with a well placed bomb. The irony is that anti-aircraft fire isn’t permitted against your own planes of course…

In conclusion I don’t think I shall bother wasting any more points on air support in the future! The rules make it simply too random to be of any real use.