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".

Thursday, 31 October 2024

Building a Steam and Sail Warship….Part 3

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Whilst part two of this series was a model of brevity the same cannot be said for this, the final part! As mentioned previously, the main pa...
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Wednesday, 30 October 2024

‘Der Tag’ - WW1 In the North Sea (and the Baltic)

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“ This is not the post you’re looking for”….(borrowed from O.W. Kenobi, kind of…). The Quintin Barry title found its way into the library so...
Friday, 25 October 2024

Building a Steam and Sail Warship….Part 2

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Further assembly. Note the card hatch covers, gun carriages and funnel base fashioned from 1mm grey board. On the right you can see the cock...
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Thursday, 24 October 2024

Building a Steam and Sail Warship….Part 1

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C.S.S. Florida underway. My version will not include sails and at this stage I am uncertain about the slightly angled funnels - but I have a...
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Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Few Tears Before the Mast...Part 3

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HMS Superb - the largest model I have built thus far and with the largest set of masts and spars. For this model the spars were fashioned fr...
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Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Few Tears Before the Mast….Part 2

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Ready for the off. The first thing I start with are the thicker bamboo skewer parts - the lower steps of the masts and the bowsprit. Everyth...
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Monday, 21 October 2024

Few Tears Before the Mast….Part 1

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A Confederate commerce raiding sloop. I have a pair of these but have on the modelling tray a further example to build which will be virtual...
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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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