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Showing posts with label 1940. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1940. Show all posts
Saturday, 2 May 2026

Another Fairey Battle 1/72

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My fascination with the Fairey Battle aeroplane continues. I came across another manufacturer (Special Hobby) that did a "Battle of Fra...
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Friday, 14 November 2025

Book: Victory to Defeat (Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman)

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We had won, with a magical formula of 1918 combined arms warfare, hard earned through bitter experience of four years of fighting and then w...
Thursday, 11 September 2025

Fokker D XXI Progress - Assembled

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Hitting the ground running as the PM 2 model was a neat and quick assembly (see below, few parts and a plastic that takes well to ploy cemen...
Wednesday, 10 September 2025

Late Birthday Present to Myself - 1/72 Fokker D-XXI (PM Model)

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It is rude to go into a model shop and not buy something. I had to look hard but I chose this for jut under £9 (see below, an interesting ea...
Sunday, 24 September 2023

Plastic Soldier Company: 1/300 Plane Pack

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Something I could not resist buying (sorry Mum it's in my blood) - a party pack of what I can only think of as "surplus to use for ...
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Wednesday, 16 August 2023

Undaunted: Battle of Britain

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I seem to be a serial collector of the Undaunted series of games (although I must confess getting them to the table top has been more of a c...
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Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Pendrakon Blood Red Skies Day II: Battle of Britain Aldertag (13th August)

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13th August 1940 Aldertag: Dowding's Home Station Defence Network is picking up something incoming off the Kent coast (see below, the ...
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Sunday, 6 February 2022

Operation Compass: Tamar West - Operational Planning Map

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As the attack on Tamar West unfolded through the Zoom sessions, as a British player, I tried to keep track of the assault as it progressed u...
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Thursday, 3 February 2022

Operation Compass: Attacking Tamar West

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In preparation for my Beda Fomm game Martin from the Sheffield "Zoom" wargame kindly group laid on an Operation Compass battle for...
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Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Stockton Battleground (2021): Battle of Britain "Double Blind Game"

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Stockton Battleground Wargames Show 2021 Cinderella you shall go to the "ball" (well it is actually a "wargames show"). ...
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Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Now this is an interesting game: Atlantic Chase - GMT Games

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From the moment I saw this game advertised on the GMT P500's I knew there was something special about it and after wantonly staring at i...
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Sunday, 1 March 2020

28mm: 1940 Germans Continued

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I seem to be going through a phase of assembling 28mm plastic WWII soldier and painting 10mm WWII soldiers. My thinking may not be quite as ...
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Friday, 7 February 2020

Finishing Off those Blitzkrieg Germans

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Taking a cue from a friend ( Renko ) I procures a second box of Warlord Games Early War Germans but this time opted for the German Pioneer s...
Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Blood Red Skies: Battle of Britain (3 of 3) Battle End

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Adding insult to injury the Me110s find themselves now tangling with Spitfires (see below, a Spitfire racing to get into the rear are of a l...
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