Vulture's Wargaming Blog

Last night my brother-in-law (Mike) and I went to see Avatar at the local cinema in Huntingdon . I'm useless at writing reviews, so I d...

Very little figure activity going on in the house at the moment, although Alex and I have have been playing lots of Company Of Heroes and D...

- Slightly old news, but interesting none the less, apparently a new Mechwarrior game is in production. Imaginatively tit...

Been playing Homeworld 2 with my son. This is quite an old game now, but the graphics and game play are still excellent. Worth picking up...

This short video on U-Tube of the famous WWII German 88 Flak gun in action caught my attention. There is some outstanding footage contained...

Guys, check out this short film called "Ataque de Panico!" (Panic Attack!). It features giant robots invading and destroying Mon...

Ever wondered what the inside of a Trident submarine looked like ? This short BBC news clip gives an interesting insight. Link - On a tota...

When you’ve lost your legs, do you lose hope? The Sunday Times had exclusive access to some of the most seriously wounded young soldiers. On...

Stumbled across this vid of a Russian built BAT-M crushing a line of cars. No doubt, that is a tough vehicle with loads of power, I want on...

This is an intersting site on the Africa Corps, that is worth checking out. Link . - Joke For The Weekend - Dead Duck A woman brought a ver...

This site is worth checking for the free paper terrain you can download. Link -

What never ceases to amaze me about WW2 is just the size and scope of the forces in play and the number of battles fought. Quite by accident...

This thread on the CMG forums is well worth checking out. Link . Craig is making some sci-fi terrain boards for a display game at next years...

These are superb cartoon animations. If you have ever owned a cat, you will love these :) - - -

Stumbled across this link to a site called MiniWar Gaming who are giving away a free E-Book on warhammer terrain. Link - Completely unrelat...

This is a funny on U-Tube that my brother put me onto. Definately worth a look :) - -

A quiet weekend has just passed here at the 'Vultures Roost' with the management away up seeing her family. This left yours truly i...

A haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure recently unearthed in Staffordshire (in the UK) has been valued at £3.285m. Link -

This is clip from one of my favourite comedies, The Money Pit. It always makes me smile :) This is a scene where Tom Hanks (playing Walter F...

Stumbled by chance on this fascinating German Wartime Newsreel: Ufa Europa-Woche Nr.90, Nov 1944 showing a WW2 Tank battle in Budapest (Nov ...

This is a video of destroyed tanks in Iraq, taken in 2006. Link -

This is an interesting news clip about the latest Drone Plane developed in the UK. Link -

Well, after a couple of evenings work I've finished painting both the Peter Pig 'Bomag' dropships I got a week or so back. Ver...

Busy painting up one of my Bomag Dropships (made by Peter Pig ). Not quite ready to photo just yet, still got the highlighting to do. In t...

It seems there is a movie in the works about the Ultramarines. It is described as a 70-minute sci-fi thriller that will use CGI and state-o...

This is one impressive vehicle... - -

For those who haven't seen them here is a list of links to the Stop-Motion movies I've uploaded to U-Tube. My latest movie with the...

Today I completed my latest Stop-Motion movie. I've been working on this since I finished off painting a platoon of Critical Mass Games...

I recently picked up from other sites including the excellent Dropship Horizon that Peter Pig were going to cease production if their smal...

Army testing XM-25 'smart' high-explosive weapon for Soldiers. Check out this article all about the US armies new weapon, the XM-25....

Well, the rare earth magnets I ordered off E-Bay arrived yesterday, and I set to work straight away fitting them into Walker that didn't...

- What is the unknown warrior? As part of Remembrance Services the Queen is to lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior at Westminst...

- Been thinking about how I'd use the newly finished walkers with the Beamstrike rules. These are the stats that come to mind... - ...

Lest we forget... Link

Well I've finished the platoon of Critical Mass Games walkers I got a little while ago. I used a painting technique I spotted on the ...

Well its been a funny old day. My son’s been ill with some sort of mild dose of swine flu , so its been a quiet day here in the Vulture hou...

Some extraordinarily rare footage of Spitfire pilots at leisure has been discovered. The colour footage shows how the pilots kept their spir...

Well I've got the first of my three Critical Mass Games 15mm walkers built :) A nice model, the body and legs are resin, the arms cha...

"Lufcik" from Poland. Restored and very rare!!! Experimental German halftrack, based on the SdKfz 8/DB 10. There is probably only ...

Been busy with the out-laws visiting these last few days, so little time to update the Blog. Fortunately my brother-in-law (Mike) is a keen ...

- At the centre of time Without it international travel would be in turmoil and calling friends in faraway places at the right time impossib...

The wreck of a British naval submarine lost for more than 90 years has been found in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Estonia. HMS E18 - wit...

Guys, this is well worth checking out. The game is called Alien Assault, and to all intents is Space Hulk (renamed due to copyright issues)....

Check out this Quiz on the BBC web site on British Battles. I was totally rubbish ! Can you beat my score of 1 out of 7 ? :) Link

A few weeks back there was a Model Railway exhibition down the road in Ramsey, and my son and I dropped in for a look around. Whilst browsi...

This is a totally fascinating story about Pavlopetri - the world's oldest submerged town. Link . -

This quite interesting. There is a selection of images from The Serving Soldier – for the first time providing online access to unique orig...

Nothing really to do with wargaming as such, but this sunset so impressed me last night I felt inspired to share it with you. Taken from th...

Royal Oak Sunk. A dark chapter of war remembered. It was one of the darkest days in the history of the Royal Navy. The WWII conflict was ...

Space Hulk - The Novel by Gav Thorpe. Picked up a copy last week in the Peterborough Games Workshop. The action is totally contained within ...