Wargaming Miscellany

Peter’s Paper Boys is Peter Dennis ' paper soldier company, and it has rightly carved a niche for itself in wargaming. Besides being so...

I have been following a very interesting online wargame design challenge set by Tradgardmastare (whose blog is known as The Duchy of Tradga...

Over the past few days I have been renovating and varnishing the infantry figures that I will use to form my Britannic Belle Époque army. Lu...

When I was growing up, Triang/Hornby produced and sold 1:1200th-scale metal and plastic model ships which were sold under the Minic Ships na...

The final monitors built for the United States Navy were the USS Monterey and the four vessels of the Arkansas -class. The latter went thro...

I have begun working on the renovation, rebasing, and varnishing of a new Belle Époque army … the army of the Commonwealth of Britannia. (Th...

During the 1870s and 1880s the United States pursued an isolationist policy, with the result that the United States Navy’s role was confined...

Last week, Daniel Weitz wrote a post on the Portable Wargame Facebook page about a portable ‘wargame in a box’ version of Mark Cordone’s re...

At the end of the American Civil War the United States Navy had a total of four River Monitors, twenty-one Harbour Monitors, nineteen Coasta...

Whilst I was feeling somewhat under the weather after my recent 'flu and COVID jabs, I did manage to sort out my Belle Époque armies and...