Vintage Wargaming: World War II

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Monday, 25 June 2012

Literature by Wargamers #1 - The Forgotten Don Houghton

A real oddity - one of the things I stumbled across when compiling my Wargamer's Newsletter index - is this book by Don Houghton, of At the Colonel's Table fame. I had absolutely no recollection of seeing any of this before. The whole thing is given a slightly surreal air by the idea of a competition for those fighting the engagements in it as wargames and writing them up, plus Don Featherstone's review suggesting using Airfix 1/32 figures (including Airfix footballers as the female contingent...????). As far as I know no Battle Reports from this competition were ever published (though I may have missed them).

I bought a copy off Abebooks the other week for 64p - a whole 1p less than it cost when it first came out.

Reproduced below are the advert in Wargamer's Newsletter #172 from August 1976, together with the announcement of the competition, and DF's book review from the following month.

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Italian Army in the Desert, by George Gush, from Airfix Annual 1973

Thanks to DC for these scans from Airfix Annual 1973. I had never seen this article by George Gush before, I have always had a soft spot for the Italians, and John Sandars never seemed to cover them.

Monday, 7 December 2009

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1

Coming out in 1975, the first series of Authenticards covered mainly World War II aircraft and markings, along with some tanks and a couple of Great War scout aircraft. The series is reproduced in the posts below.

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 1 Supermarine Spitfire I, Vb and Vc

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 2 Hawker Hurrican I, INF and IID

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 3 De Havilland Mosquito NFII and FBVI

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 4 bristol Beaufighter IF and VIF

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 7 Messerschmitt (Bf) 109E-1 and 109E-4/B Trop

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 9 Focke Wulf 190A-5, 190A-5/U3 and 190G-3

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 9 Junkers JU87B-1, JU87R-2/Trop and JU87-D-5

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 10 North American Mustang I (P-51A), III (P-51B), IV (P-51D)

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 11 Republic Thunderbolt P-47C, P-47D and P-47M

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 12 Boeing "Flying Fortress" B-17E, B-17F and B-17G

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 13 Handley Page Halifax BIII and BVI

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 14 Vickers Wellington III and X

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 15 Luftwaffe Markings (1939-45)

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 16 RAF Markings (1939-45)

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 17 US Markings (1941-45)

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 18 Churchill Tank

Humbrol Authenticards Series 1 # 19 Sherman Tank

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