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".

Monday, 2 September 2024

A WW1 Imagi-Naval Project

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The African Queen, before she reached the lake (the Gin had already been dumped at this point....). Now that the first phase of the Lake Tan...
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Friday, 30 August 2024

Finished at Last!

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HMS Mimi and Toutou with HMS Fifi (ex Kingani) at the top of the picture Graft Von Goetzen at the top with the Hedwig Von Wissman (left) and...
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Thursday, 29 August 2024

Lake Tanganyika - Going Forth With Mimi and Toutou

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With apologies for the picture quality - Graf Von Gotzen at the top, Hedwig Von Wissman below the Graf, Kingani/Fifi - the same ship but wil...
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Tuesday, 27 August 2024

The First of the Few....

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Ready to boss Lake Tanganyika and probably suitable for commerce raiding duties as well. 5" long and 1 1/4" across the beam. Solel...
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Sunday, 25 August 2024

WW1 in 200 Pages

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Not my usual style of reading material but…. ….it covers all the bases and has some wonderful battle scenes. Besides, at the cost of £1 it w...
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Friday, 23 August 2024

Carry On Up The Jungle By Following That Camel....

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Two theatres of the Great War of a particular interest.... East Africa - obviously nowhere near as detailed as the board game Schutztruppe b...
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Wednesday, 21 August 2024

Madasahatta Meandering and Arabian Activity

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A smattering of inspirational reading material for my ‘no so latest’ flight of fancy! This is not really a new post as such - more like a ‘t...
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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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