Peter’s Paper Boys is Peter Dennis' paper soldier company, and it has rightly carved a niche for itself in wargaming. Besides being sold in book form by Helion, they are now available from the Paper Boys webpage.
One of the books is H G WELLS’ LITTLE WARS …
… and Peter has made it possible to download for free his illustration of a Wellsian wargame in progress.
As you can see, it captures the essence of Wells’ floor wargame, and as someone who - when I was more mobile - crawled about on a floor firing matchsticks at 54mm figures, it engenders all sorts of fond memories.
Please note that the illustrations shown above are © Peter Dennis.
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The kneeling figure on the left was included by Peter as a homage to Stuart Asquith apparently.
ReplyDeleteMike Lewis,
DeleteThat’s a nice story, and I can see the resemblance between Stuart and the kneeling figure. Thanks for sharing it.
All the best,
Bob
Good to see one of Wells’ Little Wars / Floor Games female support staff (wife/mother photographer, Jessie the maid and Mathilde Nursery Governess) are represented by Peter Dennis in this Nursery Floor - https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/the-dread-broom-and-the-swish-of-skirts-jessie-allen-brooks-part-of-the-h-g-wells-household-floor-games-and-little-wars/
ReplyDeleteMark, Man of TIN,
DeleteI seem to remember reading that the German governess wrote about Wells’ games.
All the best,
Bob