Vintage Wargaming

Vintage Wargaming seems to have been on a bit of an inadvertent Paddy Griffith kick recently, because of the Battlefields Magazine posts. Th...

The recent news about the likely closure of the printed edition of Battlegames Magazine got me thinking about the traditional trajectory of ...

Here are scans of all the copies of Battlefields Magazine in my possession. These include the preview issue (Volume 0 Issue 0) but are missi...

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...