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Showing posts with label Matchbox. Show all posts
Monday, 19 December 2022

(1/72-1/76-20mm) Homage to the LRDP and SAS

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These were my originals, salvaged from the loft, in a "North Africa Box" - I think they had been lying there for over a decade. Th...
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Wednesday, 7 November 2018

The Portable Wargame Book WWII Eastern Front Battle (Part 4) - Re-Fight III "End Game Over-run"

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Heartened by the destruction of the Panzer IV the Soviets regaled their T-34s to "super human patriotic efforts" and charge and br...
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Tuesday, 6 November 2018

The Portable Wargame Book WWII Eastern Front Battle (Part 3) - Re-Fight II "Armoured Assault"

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The Soviet Commander decided to risk all in an all-out armoured attack. The four active units of T-34s pushed as far forwards as they could....
Monday, 5 November 2018

The Portable Wargame Book WWII Eastern Front Battle (Part 2) - Re-Fight I "Opening Moves"

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After a brief "commanders/generals" conversion discussing the merits of the quick 'exhibition game' (see previous post), w...
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Sunday, 4 November 2018

The Portable Wargame Book WWII Eastern Front Battle (Part 1) - Example Run Through

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This one has been on the bucket list for quite some time. Ideally I wanted to play "The Portable Wargame" well before I went to Co...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Sci-Fi Additions

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Post 'Star Gruntz' it was time to make a quick pass through the "old discarded toy-box" or rather the toys that the wife t...
Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Plastic Airfix Sherman ... "Pimped Up" (Honour the Airfix!)

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Looking at my "1944 RTR post D-Day" project box (A4 Flat Box with pop-up lid, we all have them), brimming full of Airfix Shermans ...
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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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Monday, 16 February 2015

Something from the Weekend Sir?

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Well along with sticks of rock and buckets of sweets from the seaside shops, Daddy picked himself up a curio from a little toy shop (see bel...
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Monday, 25 August 2014

Best Ever 1/76 British Infantry - Matchbox/Revell (re-release)

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Small holiday purchase! They may not look much from this picture but I am truly excited. I never had these as a kid and always wondered w...
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Saturday, 8 February 2014

Matchbox/Revell Comet (Commander's Tank)

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I am working up to a full RTR of Cromwell's and Sherman's (as per Command Decision OoB) but the Comet I will still to a squadron wor...
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Friday, 7 February 2014

Matchbox/Revell Sherman Firefly

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It may be old but it is still a classic and a perfect match for my Airfix Shermans in my 1944/45 British RTR viz Command Decision orbat (see...
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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

The Horror, The Horror ... Stop Press "Law of Gravity stiill holds true

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I never thought I was very good at the practical side of physics. It turns out that my coordination coming down a ladder is also getting a b...
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