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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Book from my Childhood



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Messerschmidt Bf109K - Erich Hartmann's Ride






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    Out of Nowhere! - I just finished a nice gaming session with the Prawn this morning. Since he transferred to a new school we just don't get in as much ASL (if any) as usual...
  • Two Up, One Back - Bard's WWII Blog
    WWII Game with Morschauser Rules - Closing out my week off from work this weekend, I had a solo WWII game today using the modern era rules from Joseph Morschauser's *How to Play Wargames in ...
  • View from the trenches
    - Another solo game, Combat Patrol. I used the layout earlier in the week to play another game but thought rather than pack it up I would give Comba...
  • Vintage Wargaming
    By request - for Allan Mountford: On Casualties, by Duncan Macfarlane - These scans are of an article which appeared in Miniature Warfare & Model Soldiers magazine in November 1972.
  • Vulture's Wargaming Blog
    Battlegroup NORTHAG - INDEX + FAQ & HOUSE RULES + Other Files - For its Cold War period gaming, my gaming group has shifted from using the Battlefront 'Team Yankee' rules to using the 'Battlegroup NORTHAG' rules publis...
  • WAB Corner
    Old Glory RJW Russian Infantry - These are actually from their Boxer Rising/Rebellion range, but the uniforms are pretty much the same. In fact, the main reaason I wanted these Old Glory...
  • wab-ramblings (click on photos for better view)
    Marine invasion - Another great game of Team Yankee in 20mm tonight with Mark Piper. US Marines come ashore in Denmark 1985 to counter a Soviet offensive but are pushed ba...
  • WAR of 1812 Wargaming
    Why the WAR OF 1812? - I just received two of the more recent Osprey Men-at Arms books on the War of 1812 in the mail the other day (not really that recent - 1998 and 2000...but...
  • Warfare in the Age of Steam
    A Confederate counter mine burrow at Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia -
  • Wargame news and terrain
    Empress Miniatures: New 28mm WWI German 105mm Howitzer & Limber - Empress Miniatures: We have another release today. Well actually a multiple release. A 28mm WW1 German 105mm howitzer plus limber set. The 10.5 cm Feldhaub...
  • Wargamer Blue
    15mm Canadian Platoon -
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    More Bloody Roses - This was my last Tuesday game before the end of the year, and I went for another go at Adrian Nayler's "Blood Red Roses". We realised after the last game...
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    New Troops for GdA2 - About a year ago I decided to add to my Napoleonic collection of AB figures. Some of us in the Montreal Historical Wargaming Club became interested in t...
  • Wargaming Miscellany
    It wasn’t a cold … it was COVID! - As I mentioned in last Monday’s blog post, I was at The Grove Park Lodge No.2732 on Monday to see a Brother Raised to the Sublime Degree of a Master Maso...
  • Wargaming the Zulu War
    Perry Miniatures plastic Zulus: Part 1 - I have a lot of unpainted Zulus but none of them are really satisfactory. Empress' British metals are marvellous but their Zulus are small, anatomicall...
  • Warhammer Fantasy Battle Tabletop Gaming
    Warhammer Fantasy Battle Database Update - Current edition army books only filter, 5,000 searchable battles archive, double batrep notes and more exclusive member accolades. Hi folks, I've been twe...
  • Warrior Pope's Italian Wars
    The battle of Milan 1522 - We played a big Pike and Shotte game up at the club on Sunday. I set up a semi historical scenario based on the battle of Bicocca. The rules were fun and not...
  • Waterloo to Mons
    elegant wedding shoes in 2015 - [image: awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi] you are now visiting* awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi* , And in this page we have more than 5 be...
  • West Models & Figures
    New(ish) man cave. - Hello all, A few months back the wife wanted my son to have a larger room so I was kicked out of the guest room into a smaller room. The bribe was it would...
  • Will ye go to Flanders
    Peter Watkin's "Culloden" - *The* Battle of Culloden offers a somewhat tenuous clue to the identity of the unfortunate gentlemen referred to in my *previous post*, but is certainly re...
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    On the Workbench - December 2023 - I felt I made good progress over the course of the month but there is still plenty left unfinished frm my original plan, so in an effort to clear the decks...
  • World War 20mm
    1941/42 German Vehicles -
  • WW2 - Somewhere in France
    Stuka - TLC repairs... - Found in a box of distressed 1/72 die-cast model planes in a local charity shop - a Stuka, missing one of its dive flaps and propeller blades. I thought...
  • WW2 Small Scale Miniatures
    HAPPY NEW YEAR - its been a while, work and life preclude me from adding anything of value BUT i found these !!! never before seen..... One of the last armoured engagements...
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