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".

Sunday, 31 July 2011

Something a Little Out of the Ordinary

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You see above a stylised map of the battle of Dresden from 1813. I have picked this for no other reason than to illustrate the contents of...
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Thursday, 28 July 2011

Growing a Wargames Library

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It has been a busy week on the work front and so my somewhat insane schedule of rule writing, scratch building, converting and painting ha...
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Funny Little Wars Staff Car

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James Bond would have been impressed! Now this is just the thing for the budding Funny Little Wars or Wellsian army - a hand built Rolls ...
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Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860 - 1905

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Hurrah!! At long last I have been able to source a copy of this naval bible for my collection! I have been after this for what seems like an...
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Monday, 25 July 2011

Of Ships and Scales and Fletcher Pratt and Gaming with these things....

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I have been giving a lot of thought about ship models and the varying sizes available and how to use them. I am thinking about 20th century ...
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Thursday, 21 July 2011

Double Turkish Delight

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A Lion class with the resultant Reshadieh The picture above is of the second of the conversions undertaken for the 1914 Turkish fleet usin...
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Trees a Jolly Good Fellow!

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Not quite a forest but it is a start! At my daughters school - which is a mere 150 yards from my front door - there is a monthly Toy and T...
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David Crook
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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