Earlier this week my old friend Nick Huband sent me a couple of documents that were extremely helpful.
One contained an article from the June 1976 issue of BATTLE magazine about 'Wargaming for Beginners'. It was written by Tony Bath and included several photographs of Joseph Morschauser wargaming on his gridded tabletop with 54mm and 25mm figures.
The second was a copy of an article from the August 2018 issue of MODEL BOATS magazine. The article described how Ashley Needham had constructed a model pre-dreadnought battleship based on the tinplate one manufactured between 1928 and 1981 by Sutcliffe Pressings Limited. It was named Valiant and is exactly the sort of model warship that I need for my Belle Époque project.
Ashley Needham's model of the tinplate battleship Valiant sailing at high speed.
Now that I have a photograph on which to base my own models on, I hope to start work on building several as soon as I have completed work on my simple naval wargame rules and play testing Joseph Morschauser's FRONTIER wargame rules.
Nice little model Bob, you'll be making sure your Union flags are not upside down.
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Jim Duncan,
DeleteI hadn’t noticed that! I’m sure that the model’s builder will be mortified if he ever finds out!
All the best,
Bob
Now that model I really like!
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