Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is my first attempt at a website so we will see lots of fantastic mistakes and lots of brilliant failures. Lets go start the adventure!
Back in the late 1980s, a school friend introduced me to something which would go on to become one of the great passions of my life: wargaming. To be specific, the wargame in question was Warhammer Fantasy Battles 3rd Edition. I fell
As a collector of Mid War for Flames of War’s North Africa campaign who has managed to acquire pretty much everything that he wants for that particular theatre, I decided to take the next logical step and grab the Eastern Front army
Well That’s another old pal passed – the worst thing about getting older is when people die. Tam Laurie I first met, around 2002 when he had been working at a pub in Rose St on the door. He turned out to
Another of the Action force toys that has recently fell into my hands is that of the Q-force Aqua trooper. Q-force was the naval arm of Action Force, and this particular one was an underwater swimmer with breathing aparatus, forming up the
So the toy I wanted more than anything growing up was the Red Shadows Shadowtrack. I managed to get the laser exterminator as my big action force vehicle, then transformers from then on as my folks simply couldn’t afford any (I was
Thirty-five years ago, a friend of mine introduced me to my first tabletop wargame, Warhammer Fantasy Battles. I was instantly hooked, and quickly moved on to the newly-released sci-fi iteration Warhammer 40K. Needless to say, once I discovered the existence of an
This is another kit that I was fortunate enough to pick up from a clearance house with a very generous multi-buy discount on top of the low price. I actually bought two sets, as I wanted to assemble both artillery and anti-tank
I grabbed myself three boxes of these Battlefront kits as part of a British Mechanised Company list I’m building for Team Yankee, supplied at an excellent discount by those wonderful folks at Wayland Games. I could have gone with Warrior IFVs to
I was gifted this book for Christmas, and while I’m more a fan of the earlier time periods in which Flames of War is set, it’s nice to have a look at what happens with the monster tanks, insane artillery, and other
I’ve been collecting various Mid-War Flames of War armies for a while now, and had already grabbed myself the individual countries’ African campaign books (Armoured Fist– British, Fighting First– American, Avanti– Italian, and Afrika Korps– German). However, I was a little disappointed that none of them offered
