Vintage Wargaming

A lsiting of the René North unifom charts from an old Hinton Hunt catalogue. Next post will have some more of the uniform information availa...

Further to the post on René North's Paint Your Own Uniform Cards, here are a couple of his uniform charts - for Austrian Infantry Regime...

If like me you were always intrigued by René North's Paint Your Own uniform cards but never saw any, this might help - again, from Jack ...

Top Tips from Jack Scruby, from 1962, with a rather nice signed photo. These are taken from a 1962 catalogue. Apologies for the quality of t...

Not strictly wargaming, but interesting nonetheless, an article from the Surrey & Hants News Tuesday August 12th 1980. John G Garratt wa...

Thanks to Billy for sending me this picture of some of the 112 similar figures he has, asking for identification. They are cardboard with m...

My recent mention of Miniature Figurines House Magazine from the early 1970s has produced a good response - I recived scans of Issue Number...

Following on from recent posts on Almarks and Blandfords, here is a contemporary view of these two series and other uniform reference source...

Thanks to Paul I now have a copy of the 1972/3 Minifigs catalogue - I previously had scans courtesy of Alan M, but it is nice to have the ...

Airfix Magazine published a series of very useful and attractive guides from about 1974 to 1976. These were in A5 format with 64 pages in bl...

...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...