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 August 2022

Warships in Plastic for a Change

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Airfix Magazine Guide Number 7 My attempts at 1:600th scale ship modelling have never been hugely successful and I can count on one hand the...
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Saturday, 27 August 2022

Taking to the Skies

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  A 2 1/2D interwar style biplane as featured in the montage of photographs marking the release of Mark Copplestone’s Little Soldiers 30mm r...
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Thursday, 25 August 2022

Hexing the Square….

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The new cloth with a very familiar looking and somewhat theatrically staged scenario - familiar in that it is the set up of the game before ...
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Wednesday, 24 August 2022

Two Shades of Blue (Mat)

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Taken in direct sunlight on the patio…. ….and in the lounge at the farthest point from any natural light Really pleased with this! For the s...
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Tuesday, 23 August 2022

Of Wind and Water….

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The set that morphed into Avalon Hill’s award-winning board game: Wooden Ships and Iron Men. Many happy hours were spent gaming using these ...
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Monday, 22 August 2022

On Days Like These….

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The C.S.S. Mississippi - a beast and a half for sure but like many Confederate designs, woefully underpowered and resource heavy.  For a var...
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Saturday, 20 August 2022

An Unexpected, Expected Surprise….

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A smorgasbord of useful WW2 15mm kit courtesy of that all round good fellow, the legend that is Archduke Piccolo! I have said it before and ...
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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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