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Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts
Sunday, 7 June 2026

FREE GAME: WWII Pacific Logistics - Fleet Train (Louis Coatney)

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Just when I thought there was not much to LinkedIn somebody goes and posted an interesting game link! Click bait it is not, thank you Lou Co...
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Thursday, 4 June 2026

Undercoating some vehicles: [28mm. 1/56] M3 Lee, Tiger I and King Tiger

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Making full use of the spray can to its last spluttering gasp I managed to cover three of my 28mm AFVs (see below, the US M3 Lee Warlord Ga...
Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Note To Self: Late War German WWII Infantry - Victrix (Painting Guide)

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Victrix Late War Miniatures Painting Guides:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xvqv96qQ1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ooQ15k9Ihg Lookin...
Saturday, 30 May 2026

Note to Self: WWII Question to the Germans - "What was it like fighting the British?"

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If you want to know the answer watch the video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDOWXeWFNJg Spoiler alert: We can be beaten and pushed back...
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Thursday, 28 May 2026

More 28mm WWII Undercoating - US Infantry, US Paras, 1940 BEF Brits and French, Japanese

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Just to complete the full story (or is it?) of the "Spray Can Day" event! Wargames Atlantic British 1940 BEF and a few (6) Imperia...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2026

Next Projects - Wargame Atlantic/Victrix 28mm Figures: Three Boxes

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I blame them (Wargames Atlantic), yes them, for making such nice figures you "have to" buy them and then, er, find a use for them?...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2026

Post Partisan Research - Early War Miniatures: The Raid (WW2 Isle of Wight Kommando Attack)

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As part of my post Partisan debrief, I took a look at Early War Miniatures' web-site ostensibly to look at their 20mm Italian Early War ...
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Saturday, 16 May 2026

Sometimes You Buy a Book for the Game Idea it has Hidden Inside It!

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Ok, first of all it was second hand and therefore cheap, secondly the subject matter is intriguing and thirdly there must be a game in it (s...
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Thursday, 14 May 2026

Inspirational Photo of an IS2 (pair) - Berlin 1945

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A friend posted this photograph and I am totally entranced by it. I am pretty sure it is, as he stated Berlin 1945 (although I stand open to...
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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...
Sunday, 3 May 2026

Italian WW2 Infantry Platoon for Chain of Command (Wargames Atlantic Figures)

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Two packets (32 figures each) of Wargames Atlantic WWII Italian Infantry allow a Chain of Command basic platoon plus some extra infantry sup...
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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, 1 May 2026

Big Man Spotted in Small Tiger II Turret

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Hats off to Trebian for spotting this anomaly - from the same manufacturer (I think Tamiya, via Warlord Games) totally different scales of ...
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Wednesday, 29 April 2026

Note to Self: Tamiya/Warlord Games 28mm King Tiger Assembly Instructions Link

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The "big cat" beast - the German King Tiger tank (see below, another "why on earth not" Warlord Games "sprue sale...
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Tuesday, 28 April 2026

Note To Self: Tamiya/Warlord Games 28mm Tiger I Assembly Instructions Link

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  Warlord Games 28mm Tiger I purchased in their annual/seasonal "sprue sale" (see above and below - please note cute but fragile a...
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Monday, 27 April 2026

Four Books on Midway

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Stemming from an interest that was cultivated from an early exposure to XTR's (Command Magazine) Victory at Midway, I have been fascinat...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2026

Been making some 28mm Kits

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For my Chain of Command 28mm British Infantry the welcome sight of a Sherman Mk I (see below, the ubiquitous Western Front armour support): ...
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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, 13 November 2025

Latest 28mm WW2 Project

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These are just beautiful figures from Wargames Atlantic - Italian WW2 Infantry (see below, two boxes needed for a 1940 Italian Infantry Plat...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2025

11th November - Lest We Ever Forget

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A tribute to the fallen in Great Ayton:  From the first to fall in WWI:  To the last to fall in WWII: Including the lad who died on his very...