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Saturday, 30 June 2012

A Discussion about Tanks Part 2

The second (and final) part of this article.

If reading about the "fulgent example" in the first paragraph of the second scan gives you a feeling of deja vu, that's because this and the following paragraph seem to have been repeated from Part 1.

Friday, 29 June 2012

A Discussion about Tanks - 1967 interview with Sir Basil Liddell Hart

Reprinted from Tank magazine in Wargamer's Newsletter ~146 in May 1974. The second part will follow later.

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Plastic Artillery Conversions by John Edgecumbe

This article from Miniature Warfare magazine February 1970 just about scrapes in to the Airfix ACW theme as these German WW1 guns and equipment are converted from the Airfix ACW set.

At a time when pretty much anything you want is available from a range of manufacturers and in a range of scales, and where you can often view and buy them on line, this article reminds us of a different time, when modelling, converting, bodging and other ways of making do were necessary even for some mainstream items.

This will be the last ACW Airfix related post for a while. I do intend to add further articles to the series on Juhn Tunstill's Miniature Warfare ACW Campaign in Ireland (see earler posts here)

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