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".

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Three little Timberclads....

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New additions to the Union fleet - the three famous timberclads U.S.S. Lexington (foreground) and the U.S.S Tyler and U.S.S. Conestega  The ...
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Monday, 29 March 2021

Back in the building and selling Groove

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The work in progress - and a cautionary tale for the unwary!   It has been a rather less fraught few days as what passes for peace and harmo...
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Thursday, 25 March 2021

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know....

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Big, bad and not something you would want to bump into on the broad reaches of the Mississippi...The U.S.S. Benton  I did not expect to be w...
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Tuesday, 23 March 2021

The English Civil War - Portable Wargame and WoFun Style

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I have the above book, the Wofun 18mm armies and a modest library for the period - what could possibly go wrong?  This will be a short post ...
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Building Progress

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The great slab that is the U.S.S. Benton and the three timberclads. The small paddle box tops on the timberclads were a fraction too long an...
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Monday, 22 March 2021

Impact, Galactic Heroes and Stargrave

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 H.G.Wells meets Jurassic Park - as I recall I think this cost me 50p or so at a boot sale a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... I a...
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Friday, 19 March 2021

The Last Lap

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 My order from Warbases arrived this morning so I now have all the remaining pieces I need to complete the ACW collection. I have identified...
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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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