And on a related point: if you look at an online map of the world and place a rectangular sheet of paper on it so that one of its long edges lies on the equator (alternately covering, for purposes of comparison, the bottom half and the top half), you’ll notice that most of the world’s land masses are in the northern hemisphere. All of North America, all of Europe, virtually all of Asia, and much of Africa are located there. The main land masses in the southern hemisphere are South America, the lower part of Africa, Australia, and Antarctica; the rest of the southern hemisphere is mainly water, which means that for A&A map purposes it’s mostly wasted space. Oceania, a.k.a. the Pacific Islands, including Australia and New Zealand, did see significant action in WWII, so its inclusion on an A&A map is quite relavant…but by the same token Antarctica is a land mass that’s traditionally (and with good reason) omitted from A&A maps.
Things I want to buy from HBG
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My wife can only complain so much about my spending habits, because I’m not boozing it up, and unlike her I don’t pay someone to paint my toenails.
That’s preamble to the following public declaration of how I’d like to spend more money.
See - I’m keen for HBG to produce the pieces I need to complete my A&A set. The sooner the better, please. And to help HBG, I’m posting a visual survey of what I’m missing. Some may prefer escort carriers and three sizes of tanks. Not me. I just want consistency (of size, pose, and color), and to fill out the sets:
US and Germany are nearly complete for me, but not quite.
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A lot of the Japanese pieces I’d like to see are forthcoming, but not all.
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UK and Italy
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Russia (in maroon) and especially France need help.