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, 19 November 2024

Redesigning the Monarch

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This is an example of what Martin at Warbases has to translate into something tangible! A - this will be the 'top deck' and includes...
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Monday, 18 November 2024

Modelling HMS Monarch

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HMS Monarch - note the position of the mainmast, set further aft than usual to allow for the turrets The trials and tribulations of the scra...
Sunday, 17 November 2024

Of Life, Lofts and MDF….

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  And so it begins. The first 18 of the 24 ships I am building for the Royal Navy and the Turks for 1880. The Turks are at the top and the R...
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Wednesday, 13 November 2024

And so it begins….Kind of!

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MDF - loads of it! If you expand the picture you should be able to make out some of the hull shapes - note the template second from right on...
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Tuesday, 12 November 2024

Thoughts on Needlepoint

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Although sinking the CSS Tennessee was still stuck fast to the USS Monadnock. I played this ‘on the fly’ as I had not thought about entangle...
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Sunday, 10 November 2024

The Battle of Needle Point, November 5th, 1864….Game Number 78

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This will the last game fought using the published version of the Portable Ironclads Wargame because from here on in I shall be making use o...
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Friday, 8 November 2024

Sirocco - Desert Raiders Battle Game

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The rather garish box lid…. ….and the underside. The playing surface - note the use of offset rectangles. You can see the airfield and suppl...
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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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