Vintage Wargaming

Another ebay purchase and a surprise twice over - first in the form of a second chance offer to buy them, and second  to discover some of...

Paul RH over on another forum after some internet sleuthing has identified these as Framburg recognition models (they seem to lack the wheel...

Patrick has sent me these three pictures of two metal tank models. They are approximately 3 inches by 6 inches, and seem to be an M3 Lee and...

The Wargamers Yearbook 1966/7 contains this lengthy (ish) article by Charles Grant on a refight of Minden, which should be of interest to de...

Quite a slight article but I hadn't seen it before, so posted here for interest.

On Sunday a rendezvous in  a windswept motorway service station saw me taking possession of a package from Tim Gow of  Megablitz and mor...

The photograph below have been posted on the  History of Georland blog but I thought I would put them here for anyone who hasn't found ...

I have just noticed that the Blogger search gadget (at Search Vintage Wargaming at the right of this page) has stopped working. I have n...

This then is the promised news: Following the showing of the segment on the Antiques Roadshow regarding the Keef family collection of f...

Just to say - there will be some interesting news to follow up the Antiques Roadshow posts, coming soon.

Thanks to Matt and indirectly to old John, here is a scan of the Airfix magazine article by Terence Wise from Airfix Magazine July 1978. I...

I have had an email from Adrian in Germany who years ago produced a Napoleonic Austrian army from Airfix conversions inspired by an article ...

The third part of the series from Almark Modelworld February 1973.

The second of four articles in the series by Mike Blake, from Almark Modelworld January 1973. As the article on German Military Semaphore ...

First of a series of four articles (the rest to follow) by Mike Blake on converting Airfix figures for the American War of Independence. G...

The family of Colonel Oliver Keef, the gentleman who appeared with the collection of soldiers on Antiques Roadshow, have now published on Yo...

A further email has landed from Graham Lay - he thinks the figures may have been 30mm but can't be sure. He has also been reading you...

As always, click on photos to enlarge. I have been working on completing (hah!) my S Range Crimean war armies. I don...