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".

Friday, 12 May 2023

Back in the Building Business….Part 3

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Look at me using solely acrylic paints for a model - who would have thought given my notoriously antiquated painting technique! I have to sa...
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Monday, 8 May 2023

Back in the Building Business….Part 2

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The gun barrels are added after painting and I only realised that I had not drilled out the hole for the flagpole when I uploaded the pictur...
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Sunday, 7 May 2023

Back in the Building Business

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A Jenga block special Note the Confederate original - the design was, ahem, designed to be quick and easy to build and purely representation...
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Friday, 5 May 2023

Developing the Portable Ironclads Wargame….Part 4

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H.M.S. Superb, sister ship to the Turkish Messudieh The pace has picked up a little and so I have been able to complete a couple of outstand...
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Thursday, 4 May 2023

Napoleon, Bobby Lee and Mustangs

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P38 at the top escorted by (from left to right) a FW190D (“Dora”), a FW190A and a Me109G (“Gustav”) Today saw the arrival of the 1:300th air...
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Monday, 1 May 2023

Developing the Portable Ironclads Wargame….Part 3

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Confederate ships looking for trouble in Mobile Bay.  Aside from my recent galley flirtation, coupled with an aerial and Plains War distract...
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Sunday, 30 April 2023

Mustangs in the Avalon Hill General

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The first of two issues of the General featuring Mustangs This edition certainly packs a lot of Mustangs related goodies! Gamers of a certai...
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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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