Peter Brekelmans' Collections

 A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of some correspondence with a Canadian gamer and history enthusiast, Peter Brekelmans, when he was working on rules for a hex-based miniatures game for the Thirty Years War.

Peter and I have kept in touch from time to time subsequently, and in a recent email he has expressed interest in disposing of some of his collections of figures. I thought it would be helpful to set some of this out here. I can't answer any questions on his behalf, but I reproduce part of Peter's description here. It looks as though these items are potentially very attractive, though the shipping costs and insurance would represent the main part of the cost of acquisition.

If you wish to see Peter's Excel attachments (mentioned below), you should find them here. If you have questions, Peter gives his email address in the text. If you cannot access my link to the spreadsheets, please shout at me, not Peter!

Peter's note states:

… was looking at the things I am never likely to use again because no one in my area is particularly interested in the rule systems or the period, and was wondering if you knew of anyone who might find the following of use. A couple of cautions here … while the games and miniatures would be free, the new owners would be stuck paying shipping and insurance (both of which are likely to be hefty even if the items are sent by sea), and I would like the games and/or figures to go to people who would actually use them rather than just sell them on.

 

Because I am an obsessive amasser of things, available are:

 

*     Around 4400 10mm ECW/TYW miniatures (see spreadsheet attached). These are painted, and the artillery and cavalry are probably good enough to be used as-is (though I don’t black armour); the foot, however, are another matter - the painting is shoddier, and they are badly based - not just in absolute terms, but also being based for my own home-grown rules, so any new owners are probably stuck with repainting, rebasing and re-sticking on the pikes (something I had enormous difficulty with and largely abandoned in this scale).

 

 *   A small (800 or so) 6mm Baccus WSS/7YW British army. Half painted and based before I discovered that no one here was interested in continuing on with Sam Mustafa’s Maurice rules (I liked both the rules and the period and, as always, rushed in where angels fear to tread). As with the ECW/TYW figures, the painted ones come with their own storage box(es) - the unpainted ones are primed and on popsicle sticks. 

 

*    An (almost) full set of the Command and Colors games (again, spreadsheet attached). I am probably going to keep both the Battle Lore v1 set - not only because I love them, but because the figures are all intermingled rather than organized by expansion - and my jury-rigged ECW/TYW set which I put together for your rule set from the spare blocks in the other C&C sets and blanks I purchased from Columbia Games (though if someone were interested in either or both, I suppose …). As mentioned though, anyone interested in the other sets should be aware that, though the rest of the games are in good condition, the basic game board for the Napoleonic ones has fallen into two parts, and all of the Napoleonic ones lack the spare blocks supplied by GMT because I cannibalized them for the ECW/TYW set.

 

 If you know of anyone interested in any or all of these, my email address is brekelmansp@bell.net

 

As an aside, I have close to 3000 15mm ECW/TYW figures that are painted and based as well, but I am loathe to part with these at this time. If someone wants to wait and be remembered in my will …