Vulture's Wargaming Blog

Skyy John is a guy in the states, who talks about all sorts of things. He completely cracks me up :) - Fat People and Airplanes Seats Airli...

Here's a rather excellent trainer I found on U-Tube for Warhammer On-Line 'Age Of Reckoning'. - -

- Dunkirk: a miracle of war The failure of the Germans to overwhelm the British Expeditionary Force on its retreat to Dunkirk continues to ...

Went to the Airshow last Friday, which was if I'm an honest a bit of a washout, on two accounts. The weather was very mixed, and varied ...

Churchill bunker 'not bomb-proof' Winston Churchill complained he had been "sold a pup" when he discovered his undergrou...

Last night I got round to uploading most of the photos I took from my visit to Portsmouth last Saturday. There is a new album in my web sho...

1. Medieval battle records go online . The new website reveals which medieval soldiers rode the furthest The detailed service records of 2...

Visited the Historic Dockyard at Portsmouth on Saturday. We were lucky enough to see the Royal Navy's newest destroyer HMS Daring on s...

After a weeks holiday in the Isle Of Wight just got back tonight. Hopefully (time permitting) I'll post some photos tomorrow of the mil...

1. Russia 'shot down its own planes' - This makes quite interesting reading, Seems the Russian Air Force and Army didn't co-o...

Bird and Fortune: George Parr, Army General being interviewed. Brilliant :) - -

Placed an order with GZG last Thursday afternoon for one of their newest vehicles, the command version of their 8 wheelers , and a few bits ...

A £1bn cost over-run is threatening the future of the publicly-funded project to build Britain's biggest aircraft carriers. Oppsss, not...

Remembered this totally hilarious vid clip today, and just had to add it :) - -

This makes interesting reading. Link . Top secret War Office papers have revealed a strange and macabre weapons project tested by the All...

Sunday night saw the start of Top Gear Series 13. What the hell has this to do with wargaming and military stuff I hear you cry ! Well abs...

Attended the Duxford Military Vehicle Show today with my son Alex. Had a great time this afternoon browsing the exhibits and getting a good...

A quick vid of a Harrier doing an uber low pass. - - Heres a short vid of the aircraft that will eventually replace the Harrier in service, ...

Stumbled across this little Star Wars parody this I thought was quite amusing :) - -

As I mentioned in a few postings back I've been studying for yet another wretched exam (in Project Management this time) these last two ...

If you haven't visited it, the (British) Tank Museum web site is well worth dropping in on. Link The range of active displays they have ...

A well known clip this one, but still worth posting, as it always makes me smile :) - -

This is an interesting page on the US DoD Buzz web site about D-Day vets, and it has some great interviews with veterans on it. Highly rec...

A brilliant comedy sketch about the British Royal Navy :) - -

This makes a totally fascinating read..... Was it a deliberate attack, or just a tragic accident ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Libert...

It is now 4 months since I've been actively running this blog, and today we reached a small milestone. Today there was the 10,000 visit...

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This quite an interesting page on the BBC web site about D-Day. Worth checking out. Link .

I'm back on the treadmill of study again (sigh), as I now have a stack of pre-reading for a Project Management course next week, which w...

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...