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Showing posts with label 1942. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1942. Show all posts
Monday, 4 May 2026

Note to Self: 28mm Warlord Games US M3 Lee Assembly Instructions

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I am still wading through the Warlord Games AFV "sprue sale" bargains I picked up. I have to confess, despite my initial forebodin...
Monday, 30 June 2025

Stalingrad, a Novel by Vasily Grossman

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A great Oxfam charity shop find, Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad (the author of "Life and Fate" which was also set in and around ...
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Monday, 20 March 2023

Audible Book: Pedestal - Max Hastings

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With my current diet of dog walking, car journeys and kitchen washing-up duties I have managed to ply through some Audible books running nic...
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Thursday, 12 August 2021

Painting Pacific War (1942) Douglas Dauntless Version SDB-3: Reference Notes

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While "going through my loft" in search of the 1/48th scale Airfix Spitfire Vb (now proudly hanging from a son's bedroom ceili...
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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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Wednesday, 13 March 2019

Command Magazine Issue 34: Death and Destruction and Issue 10: Alexandros

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I was doing a lot of rummaging around in the loft and garage and came across my boxes of zip-lock games from XTR Corporation, aka Command Ma...
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Saturday, 18 August 2018

The Stalingrad Campaign has Started

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The Chain of Command action has started and casualties are mounting in Stalingrad: Renko Blogspot:  https://twtrb.blogspot.com/search/lab...
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Sunday, 3 June 2018

Panzer II Ausf A 1/72 Scale

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They do not come more collectable than this, an original Panzer II Ausf A. The training vehicle the Germans went to war with and ended up in...
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Friday, 25 May 2018

28mm Russian Soviet Infantry (aka The Russians are Coming!) - Last Stages of Painting

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Slightly out of sequence as these are the boys that fought in Heroes Square in the last Chain of Command Game in the Stalingrad play test. H...
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Sunday, 14 June 2015

Killing Rommel, a book by Steven Pressfield

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Just finished reading this book, while it is fiction it held my attention (see below): May well have to make and paint up my Revell (ex-...
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Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Airfix Matilda II

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I remember this kit fondly from my childhood, despite the fiddly wheel arrangement that my tiny little hands had so much trouble with. T...
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Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Plastic Soldier Company Pz III (50mm short)

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The Panzer III was designed to be the prime German MBT (although I acknowledge I use this post-war modern term in a historical sense, perhap...
Saturday, 1 February 2014

Found it! A vehicle for my WWII Naval Games - Tokyo Express (Victory Game)

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Eureka, got it! A tactical WWII Pacific theater board game with strategic map moves that is solitaire (so I can practice before I roll it ou...
Sunday, 23 December 2012

Westland Whirlwind a "mini" Mosquito or another Strategic Fighter misfire?

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As you know I seem to have been in a "plane mode" or at  least "looking to the skies" with my modelling as of late. At t...
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Saturday, 22 December 2012

Returning after a "successful sortie" ... but with a little damage

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The propellers have been shot away, the radio aerial is down (but with the rear landing wheel is still intact which really surprised me), on...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012

USN Late War Battle Wagons: Pacific

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Along with the refurbished battleships of Pearl came the opportunity to also paint their successors of the 16" big gun brigade (see bel...
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Friday, 17 August 2012

WWII Naval Musing: Early and Late Pacific USN

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From ancient triremes to WWII battle-wagons and flat-tops. I live in a strange universe, such are my tastes. Scratching around in the loft...
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Wednesday, 17 November 2010

The Battle of the Java Sea: ABDA [1] The Dutch

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After reading a bit of "The Pacific Campaign" by Dan Van Der Vat (try saying that after a few beers and it will sound like a bad M...
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