Vintage Wargaming

Pathe News from the 1932 Westland/Eastland exercises. Notable for the Carden Loyds and 1924 pattern Rolls Royce armoured cars of the 11th ...

Further to the discussion in comments with Jim over whether the 1st DLI was an experimental machine gun battalion between 1934 and 1936 or...

In pursuit of my current interwar interest I have just come across these. The Tank Museum have published a set of short films about some o...

Arsing about with Carden Loyds.

Breamish have kindly digitised the reamaining photographs from the second Vickers Armstrong Lts d album and sent them to me. I have addes...

I am indebted to Charles, who while contacting me about something else pointed me to a series of articles in Airfix magazine in the second h...

David has sent me this photo showing the base of the buildings, marked "Bellona" and with a code number.

Yes - Bellona not Triang Countryside Yes - rubber not vac form plastic. With thanks to DavidP for the photograph of these recent acqui...

I have been back to Beamish today to go through the second album and list all the captions. I have now added these captions and all the i...

I am pleased to be able to launch the new Interwar Tank Development blog. I have put all the photographs from the first Vickers Armstro...

Well the exciting news is that I came home to a DVD containing the photographs from the two Vickers Armstrong albums held by Beamish Muse...

After a very pleasant morning at Beamish Museum's Regional Resource Centre I am better informed and have seen some marvellous photogr...

This picture is another from the Wonder Book of Soldiers but the good news is I have heard back very promptly from Beamish Museum. The ...

Another pic from the Wonder Book of Soldiers. The wheels on the Carden Loyds identify them as Mark Vs, as used for recce by the Experimen...

Can anyone help with an  identification of this anti tank gun?

Three newly completed S Range units - the top one is a recent acquisition in two lots from ebay, ACW and originally painted as two Confe...

I have long been interested in British tank development and doctrine between the wars, in particular in the Experimental Mechanised Force/...

What collecting I hve been doing recently has focused on Minifigs S Range. Good honest figures i like nore and more each tinme I see them - ...

Thanks to a recent ebay purchase I have added on my Lone S Ranger blog listings of the Hundred Years War range and Crecy, Poitiers and Agi...

One of the interesting extras which came with a rather fantastic bargain lot of Lamming Medieval figures from ebay was this small metal ship...