Vintage Wargaming

The earlier posts about Bill Holmes' campaign diary and Ed Saunders' commissioning of water colours from his table top battles put...

This set of cut out buildings for the Peninsular War, a windmill, village church and large farm, identified as Sheet One, appeared in the in...

These are Clive N's photos of the figures in his possession.

I've dug my mystery horseman out from the loft and here he is - clearly of the same manufacture as the RHG figure in the previous post, ...

I've been sent this picture of two Napoleonic figures and I was wondering if anyone could help identify the manufacturers. The suspicion...

Yes I know it's by George Erik again but actually this post is about Linka. The article "Now You Too Can Learn to Linka" was p...

Neatly making the connection between Bill Holmes and George Erik is this windmill, commissioned by Dick Tennant from the latter, featured on...

DC's comment on the last but one post anticipated the next character in this mini series, George Erik, who ran Miniature Warfare Ltd, o...

I've now noticed Don Featherstone's Editorial from Wargamer's Newsletter 98 (the one with the pictorial tribute to Bill Holmes) ...

Before there was Ian Weekley, making marvellous buildings to order and having lavishly illustrated articles in the wargames press, there was...

I am indebted to the Unfashionably Shiny DC for pointing me to the right number of Wargamer's Newsletter for the Paddy Griffith article ...

I have been wondering what would be an appropriate way to mark the sad passing of Paddy Griffith. There are on line obituaries from those wh...

Sometime in 1976, I remember a full - maybe double - page advert in (I think) Military Modelling, advertising a whole system of Napoleonic f...

Early conclusions from the play test seem to be: Mining was too effective and given too long a reach - only shorter (1 hex) tunnels should b...

The crater at the front is from the first mine, which exploded underneath the glacis. The third successful British mine destroyed a bastion,...

Digging parallels and batteries is the task of the infantry battalions taking part of the siege. While out of artillery range (the first and...