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 2022

Even More Masts, Even More Spars….

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Again, none of the masts are fixed in place - they are merely there whilst the glue dries. Deck fittings next - hatches, funnels and deck mo...
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Saturday, 30 July 2022

More Masts, More Spars….

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Good to be building masts again for sure! It has been a mad busy day today so painting was off the agenda but building was not! There are a ...
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Thursday, 28 July 2022

This is not the post you are looking for….

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Curiouser and curiouser… This will be a bit of mixed bag of a post as a few things have traversed the crosshairs so to speak. Should be fun ...
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Monday, 25 July 2022

Gone, With The Wind….Game Number 73….Part 1

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The combatants - at the top the frigate the U.S.S. John Adams, below the two sloops the C.S.S. Tara (left) and the U.S.S. Slattery (right) S...
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Sunday, 24 July 2022

Dotting the Skies and Crossing the T’s

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Now a 6 x 6 board but with ships occupying two squares rather than one so would still work for 3 x 3 style games - probably better than usin...
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Saturday, 23 July 2022

The Scale of the Revision

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David Manley’s excellent campaign supplement for his Dahlgren and Colombiad rules - both are available from the Wargames Vault, as well as t...
Friday, 22 July 2022

All Square and Everything to play for….

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An earlier action fought using the ‘two square - one model’ convention. A Confederate ironclad commerce raider attempts to evade her Union p...
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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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