Wargaming Miscellany

If I seem to have been a bit distracted of late, the reason is easily explained: For some months I have been waiting for a minor operation o...

On Tuesday a courier delivered a parcel from my old friend and fellow blogger, David Crook ... who writes the A WARGAMING ODYSSEY blog. I...

I've always been a fan of Henry Hyde's wargame books, and several already adorn my bookshelves, including MARTINSTAAT 1744: A DETAIL...

I have just taken delivery of two of the latest books in the 'Dominion of ...' series of fast-play rule books. They are DOMINION OF ...

Last month I built a number of model buildings (see here and here ) and I have just finished painting them. I used the same method as befo...

Over the Christmas period I was able to buy a large job lot of scratch-built 1/1200th-scale Russian pre-dreadnought era warships on eBay. Th...

During the Christmas and New Year period I continued to trawl through eBay for more ships to add to my growing collection of 1/1200th-scale ...

I collected the latest issue of THE NUGGET from the printer ( Macaulay Scott Printing Company of Welling, Kent) yesterday, and I will post...

I have been organising my Belle Époque armies into formations ... and this has highlighted several deficiencies or omissions that I need to ...

During our recent cruise , I made sure that I had plenty of time to do some thinking about what I want to achieve during 2026. One thing tha...