Vintage Wargaming

Usborne are a UK children's publishing firm who in their time have produced much of interest to wargamers, including their Make this... ...

I never had this book originally. Illustrators included Gerry Embleton. The four games are: 1 Buffalo Hunters - native Indian tribes compet...

Probably my favourite, this book was illustrated by Gerry Embleton and Angus McBride, among others. The four games are: 1 The Battle of Arso...

This was the book I had the least interest in. It had some serious wargaming credentials as two of the games (1 and 4 below) were devised by...

Written by Andrew McNeil, the four games were: 1 Winter War - Eastern Front 1943 with the Germans defending a railway junction against the ...

I posted this on The Old Metal Detector, but thought it might be of interest here as well because of the previous items on Rospak hard plast...

Rambling post ahead warning - a while ago I bought some interesting 25mm British Napoleonic figures from e-bay which turned out to be marked...

Thanks again to Twmas

The first article in the series. Thanks to Twmas.

The current edition of the Nugget, journal of Wargame Developments, is dedicated to memories of Paddy Griffith, and for this reason has gene...

Among the figures resulting from a quick visit to Harry (see also Lone S Ranger for further details) was this single Rospak Macedonian Phal...

I would like to point people in the direction of Tony's discursive new blog, Prometheus in Aspic , which I think is likely to be of int...

Typical of Terry Wise's modelling articles in Airfix Magazine, this series of three on modelling a Boer War armoured train was inspirati...

This is Terry Wise's first Observation Post column in Military Modelling Magazine from Novemeber 1978, once Battle ceased independent pu...

Drawing together a couple of recent themes - making some of Paddy Griffith's writings more accessible, and siege warfare - is this artic...

You might be forgiven for thinking hard plastic wargaming figures were invented by the Perry Twins, Valiant, Victrix, Wargames Factory, Plas...

The seemingly very rare Roman legionary command figures Roman legionaries - there is a second type of figure with separate arms Auxiliary sp...

The picture shows three different packs of Rospak Greeks - AG1 Greek Hoplites, AG 2a spear armed peltasts, and AG 3 Greek Cavalry. One of th...