For those of us of old enough to recall those thankfully distant times, those words were the ultimate wargaming passion killer. As a teenager, I'd count the days on my calendar. There was always the hope that allowing 28 days actually meant that your order could turn up in less time. After a week I'd be waiting for the postman to knock. And, of course, he never did. At least not before 28 days, and usually it would be significantly longer before your order turned up. At that point you'd realize that you had forgotten to order something hugely important and that it would be another month before it arrived and you could get cracking on your new army.
In that glacially slow world, some projects would be abandoned before they began because the enthusiasm that had burned so brightly at the moment of purchase had faded by the time the figures arrived. The depressing realization that you had bought another turkey was often made worse when the figures arrived, as
