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, 30 November 2014

Lion of the Desert

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Lion of the Desert - the story of the latter years of Omar Mukhtar This weekend has been one that turned out completely different fr...
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Friday, 28 November 2014

Jutland: The Rules of the Game

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Aside from being the title of a very good book on the subject the rules of the game is something I have had on my mind to various degrees si...
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Monday, 24 November 2014

Turks in the Crimea

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The latest title from Caliver Books - as pointed out to me by that very nice Mr. Fox - cheers old chap! No surprises for guessin...
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Two Shades of Grey - WIP

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Following on from last post I spent some quality time yesterday working on the remaining 18 battleships for the Royal Navy. All of the model...
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Saturday, 22 November 2014

Back in the Painting Saddle

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The deed has been done. The 12 models that needed a repaint have at last been started. I took a long and critical look at the varnish damage...
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Friday, 21 November 2014

"Dust yourself off, brush yourself down....and start all over again"

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Well not quite but the new plan with the varnish-damaged ships now looks something like this: The original 8 ships will be undercoated to ...
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Monday, 17 November 2014

"We want 8 - but we'll have to wait!"

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I am not a happy bunny. By the close of play Saturday evening the current batch of 8 Royal Navy battleships had been finished and but for ...
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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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