Yours in a White Wine Sauce!

Adventures in Victorian Science Fiction & Steampunk with ramblings about Aeronefs, Dirigibles, Land Ironclads, Anarchists, Dinosaur Hunting, Terranefs, Aquanefs, Mad Scientists, electric contraptions and steam conveyances. It may not make sense, but there will be claret and a nice cheese board at the end. Tally-Ho and "Vôtre dans une sauce au vin blanc!"

Tuesday, 6 October 2020

First Frenchman for Mars

After years in planning and another unpardonably long absence from this blog, I have finally commenced my French on Mars project. Well a tes...

Sunday, 24 March 2019

HMVS Cerberus

Updated online history section at the Royal Australian Navy website here: http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-cerberus-hmvs The passing of the Co...

Thursday, 21 March 2019

Beehive Casemate, Middle Head, Sydney

Beehive Casemate is a Colonial era fortification at Obelisk Bay, a small inslet within Sydney Harbour. Construction was part of the wider ...

Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Back to Mars!

Good God man - has it really been a year since a dispatch was last posted? We were adrift in the Aether you know while dispatched on Her Ma...

Friday, 6 April 2018

Fort Warrnambool, Victoria

‘1884 Field Artillery Gun overlooking the sea on Cannon hill, Warrnambool’, Libraries Australia ID 49408382 Warrnambool Fort, also known as...

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

VSF One Man Dirigible

This screw powered one man dirigible is a VSF delight to battle foes in the Back of Beyond, over the Red Planet or as some sort of diesel ...

Sunday, 24 December 2017

Merry Christmas!

Sunday, 17 December 2017

The Fighting Retreat to Dusters' Drift

Our Colonial game this week was a LOT of fun! It saw a British Column, led by the 3rd Foot & Mouth Regiment (Major Backsight commanding...

Thursday, 30 November 2017

"We come on the orders of the Great White Queen!"

My Imperial Force As promised, here is the British and Boer forces for the Zulu war. The British Cavalry bore the worst of the damage...

Monday, 27 November 2017

"Zulus Sah! Fousands of 'em!"

Massed warriors (around 350 of them)- how a Zulu Impi should look! This is a post some 24 years in the making. Some time ago I quite enj...

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