Vulture's Wargaming Blog

This trailer for a new 40k Space Marine game from those smart chaps at Relic has just been released. V nice. - -

Not much happening on the gaming front since I last posted due to exams and being away visiting the outlaws. Thought I'd post a trailer...

An unofficial and free 39 minute Lord of the Rings fan film, made for less than $5,000 by Independent Online Cinema. Based on parts of The L...

Took the first of my two CIPS exams today. Some of the damn questions were so ambiguous I couldn't work out what the hell they wanted !...

This is a brilliant trailer for one of my favouriste films. There is lots of trivia about the film on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) , ...

My brother sent me a link to this engine firing up. Turn the volume up to fully appreciate it ! :) - -

Study revision for my exams next week is well underway at the moment. Currently reading all about techniques for controlling inventory (yaw...

Quite simple one of the best trailers ever done for a game IMHO. Certainly worth posting :) - -

This without doubt must rate as one of the least successful tanks of WW2. Check out this link about the British Covenantor tank which make...

Found out from a posting on the Space Hulk Yahoo group that a team of Space Hulk enthusiasts called ' Teardown ' have been developi...

This rather an interesting site about the WW2 German half-track, the Sdfz251. http://www.sdkfz251.com/index.html . - Here's a short cli...

Wargaming is sadly going to have to take a back-seat here at the 'Vulture's Roost' for the next 12 days as I focus on revising f...

A fantastic short movie from Pixar with two of the characters from Monsters Inc. - -

Classic stuff.... :) - -

I've been working on some terrain these last couple of days, in between family stuff and playing Company Of Heroes with my son (a totall...

Stumbled across this on U-Tube. - A rare chance to see what it's like inside a running Tiger 1. The clip shows a short test run of Tig...

GZG recently released three 8 wheeled vehicles, V15-50A, V15-51A and V15-52A. Its taken me a while but at last I've finished them. - ...

Donald Featherstone, one of the fathers of modern wargaming, talking about how he joined the army, what he really thinks about Americans and...

Neil at the Beamstrike Yahoo forum is hosting a photo competition. More details can found here , but in a nutshell he is inviting players t...

Nothing to do with wargaming, but just a great piece of driving in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) I wanted to share with you. -...

I was looking through some of my vehicles that I use for my 15mm sci-fi gaming, and my eye was drawn to the Aliens APC I have. Quite a plai...

Just stumbled across this vid which made me smile :) - See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor . -

For any gamer interested in Fantasy and Sci-Fi it is well worth considering joining The Society Of Fantasy & Science Fiction Wargamers (...

Check out this fabulous trailer for the forthcoming 'Hunt for Gollum' internet film. - Hunt For Gollum - Trailer One Uploaded by Hun...

With the time I have had available I've been painting up some more 15mm sci-fi vehicles. When they are a bit more 'polished' in...

Last weekend I picked up a few bits and pieces in 'Modelzone' in Harrogate, including this very tasteful 1:72 scale Sd.kfz.251/7 Aus...

Another clip from a classic film :) - -

In the 1990s I used to play loads of Battletech with some of my pals. Here is picture of one of my favourite mechs, a steiner variant Zeus....

Okay, so its not wargaming, but this is a great clip from Top Gear, and it does involve a tank :) Enjoy... - -

This is such a great clip from the Robot Chicken Star Wars series :)

Busy painting some of my sons 40k figures at the moment, although not fit to show at the moment; so I thought I'd post a staged photo of...

Had my first game of FAD last night at the Huntingdon club. Although my opponent (Steve) and I had read the rules through it was our first...

This is quite intersting, all about a WW1 U-Boat U40 that has been just been discovered. - -

A photo of one of the more unusual vehicles in my 15mm sci-fi collection. Picked the vehicle up on a Bring and Buy stand at a convention man...

Two things today. Firstly if you haven't checked out Marks 'Dropship Horizon ' blog recently you need to do so. There is lots ...

Today my Darkage II play by E-Mail (PBEM) game finished today. This is a simply but yet brilliant game set in Darkage Britain after the Rom...

Felt inspired for another stop-motion movie just after I finished off painting another GZG vehicle, in this instance a V15-31A Kra'Vak H...

My brother-in-law Mike was visiting at the weekend. He brought his lap-top along and joined with my son and I racing around in the Star War...

Bloggers Interplanetary Buzzer Service reports that another new vehicle fresh out of the GZG production facilities, the V15-55A Advanced He...

At the Club on Thursday night I had my first game of ' Battlelore '. This is a Fantasy Board game made by the same people who do...

In the post today came the first of four Wings Of War miniatures that I ordered from Amazon at the weekend. I was somewhat surprised how sma...

The free rules written by Ivan Sorensen called 'Fast And Dirty' (FAD) have been refreshed. Version 4 is now available to download ...

Yesterday I picked up a copy of the PC game 'Company Of Heroes '. This is a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game set in WW2 on the Normandy...

At the Huntingdon club I played my first ' Wings Of War ' game. Suffice to say it is a well thought out nice little game, which is...

Realised that I hadn't gotten round to posting a stop-motion video I did in Feb before I restarted this blog. There's a lot of swear...

After a bit of hassle with Windows Movie Maker, which delayed things, my latest Stop-Motion movie is ready :) - -

Not much activity today other than assembling a couple more new GZG vehicles. They are part way through getting an initial coat of gray spr...

Out at a friends house (Stuart) last night for a computer 'frag' session. After a very frustrating time trying to get his Vista mach...

Bloggers Interplanetary Buzzer Service reports that one of the latest vehicles out of the GZG production facilities, the V15-57A (Nickname: ...

A friend of mine (Mike) who goes to my local club, told me what a great game 'Wings Of War' is, and showed me some miniatures he had...