Wargaming Miscellany

HMS Belleisle and HMS Rupert had somewhat lacklustre and inactive careers in the Royal Navy. In the case of HMS Belleisle (and her sister...

I began today full of hope that the engineer from the stairlift company would be able to repair mine so that I could use it to access the t...

By the time this blog post appears, an engineer should be replacing the stairlift that has been out of action for a month. If he is successf...

I managed to find four more 1/1200th-scale ironclads on sale on eBay ... and could not resist buying them! I am now the proud owner of mode...

As I am over seventy-five-years-old, I would automatically qualify to have an NHS influenza vaccination, but because my immune system is com...

The period between 1860 and 1900 saw massive developments in warship designs. Iron and then steel replaced wood, sail was replaced by steam-...

The History of Wargaming Project is a wargame publishing house that was started in 2008 by John Curry to preserve, reprint, and expand cla...

I have just uploaded a new YouTube video to the Wargaming Miscellany YouTube channel about the Russian protected cruiser Aurora . It la...

I have always liked the look of the British mid-nineteenth century coastal defence ironclads ... so when 1/1200th-scale  models of a couple ...

One aspect of the Spanish Civil War that rarely features in the military histories of that conflict is the naval war that was fought by the ...