Vintage Wargaming

This game by Paddy Griffith was published in Battlefields Magazine Volume 1 Issue 1 in July 1995. It recreates national strategic plannin...

This is Paddy Griffith's Peninsular Storming game, based on his work on Sir John T Jones 1813 Sieges of Spain, which appeared in the p...

As an illustration of the type of scenarios published in Battlefields Magazine, here is John Barratt's Restore Hope The prequel 1935, fr...

Anyone remember Jackdaws? They were folders containing facsimile documents about historical events. There must have been a fair few - I have...

I thought this was interesting as an early (1966) potted history of the first ten years of Scruby Miniatures, by Jack Scruby himself, publis...

Readers of The Guardian newspaper have very sensibly voted Durham Cathedral as the Best Building in Britain. While a little off topic here i...

Old John, who also appears as TK in Harry Pearson's Achtung Schweinhund! and is responsible for putting back on the market a number of c...

Dick Higgs, Miniature Figurine's principal designer, provided this guide as part 3 of his series Painting for Beginners in Minimag Magaz...

From the second issue of Minimag, some notes on horse colours, based on a letter from Phil Barker. This is the sort of information that was ...

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