Thursday, 13 August 2015

Early Machine Guns

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To add to my earlier posts of real life VSF period weapons, I offer the following early model machine guns: Colt model M1895 Machine Gu...
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Saturday, 18 July 2015

Flying Airfield takes off!

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Brigade has released a new Nef, and a monster it is! Today we’re unveiling a new Aeronef model, and our largest to date in this range. The...
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Saturday, 11 July 2015

Nemo's War - Art Sneak Peak

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The artist for the forthcoming release of the second edition of VPG's Nemo's War has released some sneak peaks of some of the artwor...
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Thursday, 11 June 2015

The Never Were Ships catalogue

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Found this brilliant collection of old B&W drawings of Italian ship designs which has some great ideas and inspiration for one's Aqu...
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Monday, 1 June 2015

The Expedition must continue!

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I haven't shown much artwork around here lately, but I really like this one which is titled "The Expedition must continue!" ...
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Saturday, 23 May 2015

USS Nautilus and the Nemo connection

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I recently had the opportunity of visiting the US Navy's Submarine Museum, which includes the historic ship USS Nautilus : the world...
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Monday, 18 May 2015

It's Nautilus What You Think

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If you missed update on the new edition of Nemo's War , here it is off VPG's website. I'm really looking forward to this! http...
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Thursday, 14 May 2015

Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon

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Second in this series of period machineries of death... A step up from the Gatling Gun (see here ), which fired small arms ammunition, thi...
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Friday, 8 May 2015

Mr Gatling's Patented Revolving Battery Gun and other fun

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In recent mont hs I've visited more than a few places in which historical artefacts are stored, so I have taken the opportunity to take ...
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Thursday, 30 April 2015

Zeppelin attack routes

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I was perusing some of the many fantastic tomes at the library this week and found a great German account of WW1 Zeppelin raids on Britain w...
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Sunday, 26 April 2015

Percival Lowell's Globe of Mars

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Percival Lowell was an American businessman and astronomer who founded an observatory in Arizona in the late 19th century.  He was convinced...
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Friday, 24 April 2015

The Centenary of ANZAC

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Today is ANZAC Day and this year marks the 100th Anniversary of the Allied landings at a small place in Turkey that nobody in Australia an...
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Sunday, 12 April 2015

Basing for Land Ironclads

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I saw this very impressive array of 2mm Napoleonic armies over at the excellent "Lead doesn't Bleed" blog today and it got me ...
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Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Review: CSS Appomattox

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CSS Appomattox by Chris Stoesen Amidst the slaughter of the American Civil War, recognition of the South by both France and Great Brit...
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Friday, 3 April 2015

Austro-Hungarian Salzburg Class Carrier

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Jack M recently posted some pics of this lovely Austro-Hungarian conversion, which he has named the Salzburg Class.  I am quite taken w...
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