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- Bob Mackenzie's Wargaming Website
- Chris Kemp's Not Quite Mechanised Website
- John Curry's 'History of Wargaming' Website
- Major General Tremorden Rederring's Colonial Wargames Page
- Mapsymbs Website
- The Antwerp Fusiliers Website (Now part of the Tin Soldiers of Antwerp Website)
- The Miniatures Page
- The Universal General Website
- Tin Soldiers of Antwerp Website
My favourite blogs
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Edgcote playtest - As part of the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society commemoration of Edgcote's 550th anniversary Phil is working on a model/game to go on our stand at the...
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28/25mm sedan chairs? - Anyone know of sedan chairs ( 18th century ones carried by two men) in this scale? I know Alternative armies do dog headed figures carrying a sedan chair w...3 hours ago
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Wargaming Synchronicity and Carpe Diem - *A selection of Venetian infantry. I found a rather good selection of these on Pinterest.* I am a huge believer in synchronicity - of multiple moving par...
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Decisions, decisions. - I’m torn about these two. I’ve got two sections of seven lads each and I need some way of distinguishing them. I was thinking about helmet colour, but I...14 hours ago
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Jacobite Paper Soldiers - Over the last few days I have been cutting and snipping out the Paper Soldiers by Peter Dennis. Trying out different approaches to making them. As mentione...
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(Big Game) Ramillies "Oh Fortuna" [Game 11] Post #13 - The mass of Allied infantry is making its presence felt, trading heavy volleys and taking the French artillery with stoic fortitude. They advance three ran...
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The Ivory Towers of Balnibarbi - After Lt. Morrison's escape from the angry natives of Nanus and Mauru, he took the HMS *Opportunity* to the land of Balnibarbi. Needless to say he managed...
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My First Total Custom Action Figure - My first total custom. An attempt at making an Acid Rain World figure. Going to call him "Red 5." I know I totally lifted that name but it's what first com...
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A Question of Scale - *Map of Europe* I know that a lot of wargamers feel that scale is very important. Whether it is to determine movement, ground covered by a battalion, m...
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The 3 R's of Wargaming - Reassess, Reorganize, Rebase. Its only been a couple of years since I popped my 54's off their 1" washers and reorganized the 8 single figure units into un...
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Team Yankee 6mm - Bannon's Boys - Combat Team Yankee advance! Another project..... Oh the shame! I had decided *(& still will later..)*, to run another invasion USA Campaign, using an Wa...
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Battle Cry Isandlwana with 54mm toy soldiers - The new year has seen a long awaited return to playing games with toy soldiers, give or take a day it was the 140th anniversary of the Battle of Isandlawna...
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Butlers’ Printed Models Review 39M CSABA Hungarian Armoured Car - This model is a little gem. Previously, I have been used to seeing slightly skew, slightly over-chunky renditions of this multi-angled Hungarian armoured...1 week ago
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1/32 Spanish Civil War Republicans - Preparing for last year's Ebro game (see this earlier post here), created some interesting challenges when it came to producing the figures. The trick I ...
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Kissingen 1866 - I've been revisiting the late nineteenth century recently. Rifle and Kepi produces a passable Army level game, I was still hankering after something to do ...
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Harad - an occasional project... - Troops of the Tchagai Palace Guard, c.1980About a million years ago, a certain Evil Uncle Brian (He of the* Fist Full of Plastic* blog) persuaded me to jo...
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In the Shadow of the Black Tower - Many months had passed since Sir John of Raven's Wood Tower, Captain of the Pass, better known as the Black Knight, had led his men across the mountains t...
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Shambattle - Anthony and I tried out the Shambattle rules this week using my LWR 19th Century figures. The rules were originally published in 1929 and draw on some of t...1 month ago
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New Accessions - What’s been going on on the P.B.Eye-Candy workbench? Well quite a bit of in-filling and a few new things too. Above we see a couple of Zvezda fighters … n...1 month ago
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Seasons Greetings! - Well, it is that time of year again. Just a quick post to say Happy Christmas to all in Blog Land and do a quick pre-Xmas round up (pending a more fundam...
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7YW Brigadier - WIP - I need a commander for the 7YW Prussian brigade I am painting for a friend. Eagle Miniatures supplied the figures at a recent show. Here he is with an ADC ...
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Desert Update 2 - Thanks to Carl (in another place) pointing out these figures are now up on the Pictart web site and can be ordered on line using the site’s shopping basket...4 months ago
About Me
- Robert (Bob) Cordery
- I have been wargaming for as long as I can remember. One of the first toys that I was bought was a wooden fort that was garrisoned by assorted lead soldiers ... and I have never looked back! The first wargames book I bought was CHARGE! (although I had taken out [and repeatedly read] Donald Featherstone's WAR GAMES book beforehand [and many thanks to John Curry for republishing it!]). My first 20mm figures were the good old Airfix Guards Infantry and Band (in shocking pink!), soon followed by others as they were released, and by 1968, when I bought my first metal Hinton Hunt 20mm figures, I had a large collection of World War II figures, tanks, guns, and aircraft. I was a founder member of WARGAME DEVELOPMENTS and have been the treasurer and membership secretary ever since. I have also organised – along with Tim Gow - the annual conference (COW – Conference of Wargamers) for the past ten years. My main interests are wargaming any wars from 1850 onwards, although I have a special interest in Colonial, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II wargaming. I also have a special interest in wargames that use square or hex grids for movement and weapon ranges.
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