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".

Wednesday, 13 January 2021

Feeding the Anaconda, one piece at a time....Late Summer, 1864...Game number 60, Part 2

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Battle is joined! Sketch Map of the opening positions of the two sides - the cartography department is very much a work in progress! The shi...
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Tuesday, 12 January 2021

Feeding the Anaconda, one piece at a time....Late Summer, 1864...Game number 60, Part 1

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A crudely penned map of the area prepared by the cartography section assigned to General Dursley. The Union landing was to be made at Loneso...
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“Pook’s Turtles’ and the C.S.S. Missouri

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  A city class gunboat - in this case the Baron de Kalb A plan of C.S.S. Missouri. The overall shape is very similar to that the of the city...
Monday, 11 January 2021

Russo Turkish Tinkering

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The original model (of which there are two). Nothing wrong with it and yet....  ....by adding to the sailing rig and applying some white tri...
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Sunday, 10 January 2021

We’re only making plans for....Martin!

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The three drawings to the right (3, 4 and 5) are the key three layers of the hull of the Mesudiye - there will be two plain templates under ...
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Saturday, 9 January 2021

Where we are or the state of the Union

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 One of ‘Pook’s Turtles’ in action As I have now reached the point where I can go no further with the models for both the ACW and the Russo ...
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Thursday, 7 January 2021

‘Big Wheels Keep on Turning....’

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First of the Union paddle steamers.... ....in company with the first of the Confederates. Ready for action along the rivers and in the swamp...
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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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