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".

Wednesday, 30 April 2025

The Boshin War - The Penultimate Samurai

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Despite being chock full of historical clangers, there is no denying that the Tom Cruise file: The Last Samurai is a splendid piece of enter...
Tuesday, 29 April 2025

It is the Fort that counts….Part 3

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The two internal buildings are still not fixed in place but that is where they will finish up. Everything you see that is currently white wi...
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Monday, 28 April 2025

It is the Fort that counts….Part 2

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 The next fiddly phase has been completed and so the model has now been sealed prior to undercoating and painting. The final fiddly phase wi...
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Sunday, 27 April 2025

It is the Fort that counts….

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 When I first started the project that eventually morphed into The Portable Ironclads Wargame I had always planned to build forts, shore and...
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Wednesday, 23 April 2025

Pictures Telling Stories

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Just a brief post for today as a lot is going on. Just three pictures of some of the ACW naval collection, posed for the camera, but why? A ...
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Sunday, 20 April 2025

CSS Atlanta: Ready for Action!

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  Finally got the Spar Torpedo fitted. A simple construction although the original had a much more complex system for lowering the spar boom...
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Thursday, 17 April 2025

Not Quite The Battle of the River Plate - 1864 style

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Yesterday evening at the club another Portable Ironclads Wargame was fought and as usual, I managed to fail once again in the picture and re...
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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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