Vintage Wargaming

...Gateshead and seeing the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain playing this amongst others

For a long time the only uniform book I owned was Rene North's Military Uniforms 1686-1918, published by Hamlyn all-colour paperbacks....

Thanks to Mike for scans of two more David Nash books - the Model Buildings one is from the loft

Found another one...

Almark was a company that was hard to get your head round - prolific publisher, of books and the short-lived (I think) magazine Almark Model...

In the pre-internet days uniform information was at a premium and could be hard to find. Articles in magazines such as Military Modelling, A...

I am very wary of claims to the spirit of wargaming (you know who you are) but something about this reminded me of the innocent pleasures of...

THE INVASION OF ARCADIA 1975 by the Big Battle League This article was published in Battle Magazine May 1976 and has been mentioned on...

In my recent quest to make it easier to find what you are looking for here, whether you know it is there but can't find it again, or if ...

This post is by way of being a bit of a place holder and statement of intent, as I try to pull together some material of interest about this...

At Foy's suggestion, I have added a blog archive to allow people to track past posts through time, as an alternative to searching using ...

Vintage Wargaming is perhaps not a typical blog, as the currency of posts does not depend on how recently they were made (mainly being abou...

MILITARY MINIATURES . Priceless Pathe newsreel footage of Marcus Hinton, tipped off to this by Paul in Oz, and beaten to putting it up by Ia...

Following a thread on TMP I thought it would be helpful to post this list here. There are pictures of some of the models in two posts on Bo...

A recent e-bay purchase of old Alberken/Minifigs 20mm figures included these two hand drawn, rather impressionistic flags. As I rather like ...

Over on the Lone S Ranger blog I have posted some information on these figures. There are a number of figures which I have not been able def...

HG Wells famously used matchstick-firing artillery models in his Little Wars, but he would have been seriously outgunned by Franz Stollberg,...

One of the early books which seems to get unjustly neglected is Gavin Lyall's Operation Warboard (though it does have a number of strong...

I've been keeping an eye on the blog counter this evening and it has just gone past 100,000 hits. Thanks to everyone who visits, or comm...

I'm not really sure which blog to put this on, so I'm posting it here and on the Hinton Hunter. This weekend saw a visit almost to t...