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, 10 September 2026

The Spanish Civil War Afloat

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Designed with the author’s Find, Fix and Strike WW2 naval rules in mind but would be readily usable with any rules set. From the pen of the ...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Further Adventures with 1mm MDF

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All the hulls currently under construction for the Anglo Turkish War of 1883. The red-brown edged hulls at the bottom of the picture are for...
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Monday, 7 September 2026

Boot Sale Bargain Bonanza!

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The book of the BBC TV series  Not seen this one before, a great doorstop of a tome that I will review in more detail in a later post. Again...
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Sunday, 6 September 2026

A Solution to a Naval Problem

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H.M.S. Superb - note the white ‘boot topping’. One of the challenges when scratchbuilding warships is how to tackle ‘boot topping’. Traditio...
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Friday, 4 September 2026

Summer, 1940….Angels 20/Bandits High Style

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The following are a selection of pictures from the game. The one above shows the Me110s at the start of the action. Battle had been joined a...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2026

Somewhere over Southern England, Late Summer, 1940

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I shall let the picture do the talking…. Having fought off a late summer head cold I shall be taking to the skies again this evening at the ...
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Monday, 31 August 2026

Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion

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An invaluable resource for background etc. As the gun factors are largely based on Mr Manley’s Dahlgren and Colombiad rules expect to see th...
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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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