A Wargaming Odyssey

This is a long running and continuing journey around a collection of ideas, projects, games, models and a variety of wargaming related themes from my own imagination and from others. As I have been described as having the attention span of a forgetful goldfish you can rest assured the resulting subject matter will be diverse and (usually) entertaining! "He lived in a frenzy of enthusiasm — but nothing lasted for long with him".

Monday, 28 February 2011

CSS Louisiana or Model Number 30

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Above is the picture of scratch built model number 30 for my ACW naval project - the CSS Louisiana. She comes in at 3 1/2" long which i...

Cruising down the River....

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CSS Atlanta - derived from the design of the unfinished CSS Mississippi ....on a Sunday afternoon.... Well not exactly, but I...
Sunday, 27 February 2011

The French Foreign Legion 1872 to 1914

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I recently acquired the Osprey Men at Arms title above (number 461) which covers the colonial period described in Martin Windrow's '...
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I have been to....Rye

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Taking advantage of the half term break and the fact that my daughter was staying away at a friends for a few days; Laurel and I decided to...
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Thursday, 24 February 2011

C and C Napoleonics with 400 not out....

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Apologies for the repeated picture above but it was the only one I had to hand and I do not have the time this evening to take anything more...
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Bigger and Smaller Hulls with a dash of Napoleonics....

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I shaped the hulls last night for the CSS Louisiana and Mississippi and they are LARGE! In order to maintain a small degree of relative size...
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011

The 35 Minute Ironclad

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Why the 35 minute ironclad? Very simple really, as that is exactly how long it took me to build this model of the CSS Manassas - formerly th...
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A wargamer since the early 1970s with wide-ranging and mostly unfulfilled interests in many historical (or should that be hysterical?) periods. An eternal optimist, I am always convinced that the next project will be the one....
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