Vulture's Wargaming Blog

I found time over the weekend to take a few photos of some 15mm sci-fi figures that I painted up a couple of months back. The boys are made...

This is a quite an intersting article about a London-based scientist's use of a remote-control helicopter to get breath samples from wha...

This is very clever and well worth watching. Best Card Trick Ever -

This is quite good. It shows the work of a modern-day war artist. Link to BBC. -

This is an interesting article on the BBC web site about how an unknown warrior was carried from a French battlefield 90 years ago, to be la...

This is worth checking out on the BBC web site. - The story of the Great War told from a unique new aerial perspective. Featuring two remar...

This is an amazing piece of flying by this Chinook. Must confess I went cold when I saw how close the blades were to the ground... - -

A 550lb (250kg) bomb from World War II has been successfully detonated during a controlled explosion in a river in Potsdam, Germany. Nine to...

It was announced yesterday that the entire UK Harrier force is to be retired early. All flying will have ceased by 1 Apr 2011. As someone w...

How long could you go without daylight, family contact, or any precise idea of where you are? A submariner on HMS Talent can do it for three...

In the midst of World War II, workers at a Welsh aircraft factory gave up their weekend off to build a Wellington bomber from scratch in jus...

This is an interesting little essay on Armchair General web about the Italians in WW2. Link -

LONDON — The courage of the military personnel and volunteers who suffered the ordeal of the intense Nazi bombing of London was remembered T...

I've always had an interest in armoured vehicles, and thought I'd share some links with regard one I've been following for a whi...

Saw this today, and think it looks quite good :) - -

Stumbled across this intersting site about HMS Glowworm. - On 8th April 1940 The British destroyer HMS Glowworm, alone and outgunned took...

On a cloudy August day in 1940, the skies and seas around the Isle of Wight witnessed the first sustained clashes of the Battle of Britain. ...

For anyone interested in WW2, this site is an an intersting visit. It is called the WWII Database, and has a simply astonishing amount of d...

This is quite an intersting site with quite a comprehensive essay about HMS Dasher, and its rather poor in-service career during WW2 which e...

This is a fascinating little essay about Operation Catapult and the Naval Destruction at Mers-el-Kebir. This is where the part of the Frenc...

HMS Investigator had been sent in search of the Franklin expedition, but was lost while on a quest to find the Northwest Passage through th...

This is a very cool little video, well worth checking out. - The BBC has been given exclusive access to film the world's most advanced f...

A soldier who stood on a landmine in Afghanistan may owe his life to a rosary - just as his great-grandfather did in the Second World War. ...

This is very funny :) - -

I've almost finished listening to the pod casts that you can download from the UK Defence Academy site , so I have been casting around t...

WICOE (Women In Charge Of Everything) Is proud to announce the opening of its EVENING CLASSES FOR MEN! OPEN TO MEN ONLY, ALL ARE WELCOME Not...

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Nothing to do with wargaming, but a classic song and video. - -

As I've mentioned before, I'm a huge fan of the Company Of Heroes Blitzkreig Mod (that can be downloaded for free). A small team o...

I saw part of the Typhoon display at RIAT last week. A very impressive aircraft, only the the F22 Raptor being better IMHO. Stumbled acro...

Made it to the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford on Thursday. I was fortunate enough to see (and video) the display by ...

I really really want one of these :-) - The Terrafugia Transition, a light aircraft that can convert into a road-legal automobile, is to go ...

This is quite an article on the BBC web site. - Link - In this collection of programmes and documents, we hear from some of the battle's...

Absouletely nothing to do with wargaming, but important nonetheless !! :-) - Bugatti's Veyron has reclaimed the title of world's fa...

Final preparations are under way for UK Armed Forces Day on Saturday and the Type 23 warship HMS Kent, one of the busiest in the Royal Navy,...

To many, it was Winston Churchill’s finest hour. The address he made to the British nation as it stood alone against the Nazi war machine i...

The longest day of the year today, the summer solstice ... Link -

Just spotted on U-Tube that Simon Tofield has done another animation about his cat. Fabulous ! :) - -

Here is a link to the Telegraph web site that has an excellent slide show showing the locations of many of Britain's greatest myths and ...

OLD AGE During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, "How do you determine whether or not an older person should be put in an old age home...

The mystery of 1,800-year-old remains unearthed in York may have been solved thanks to bite and hammer marks on their decapitated skulls. A...

For a Company Of Heroes fans here's a quick heads-up. A new version of the Blitzkrig Mod has been released, Version 2.0 - Follow this ...

This is fascinating article with some great photos on the Independent web site. "A treasure trove of First World War photographs was di...

Went to see the latest take on the Robin Hood story on Monday. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett the f...

This is an interesting link about a vanished Persian Army. Bones, jewelry and weapons found in Egyptian desert may be the remains of Cambys...

What is Celibacy? Celibacy can be a choice in life, or a condition imposed by circumstances. While attending a Marriage Renewal Weekend, Bi...

Check out a fascinating article on the Historynet.com web site all about plunder in war. A highly recommended read. Link -

Whether Conservative, Liberal or Labour , I think you'll get you'll like this! - - A little boy goes to his dad and asks, 'What ...

They incurred losses on a scale not seen in the British army for half a century. Now the 3 Rifles battlegroup has paraded along Edinburgh...

The Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf. B Jagdtiger (Sd. Kfz. 186) was a German tank destroyer (self-propelled antitank gun) Jagdpanzer of World War II....