Vulture's Wargaming Blog

In the lighter moments of World War II, the Spitfire was used in an unorthodox role: bringing beer kegs to the men in Normandy . During ...

Stumbled across some more video of the only working King Tiger (or Tiger II) taken at the French museum ' Musée des Blindésat ' at ...

The capture of French Resistance hero Jean Moulin is one of the country's darkest chapters of the war. The last surviving Resistance lea...

Nothing to do with gaming or the main subject of this blog, but I thought I'd share this link with you to a good Broadband Speed Test s...

The remains of a 300-year-old warship are to be raised from the sea bed, according to reports. The wreck of HMS Victory , a predecessor of ...

The MVT Area meeting I wrote about on the 12th Jan went ahead, and was quite a success I feel with 26 (including myself) turning up. Rati...

British efforts to help topple Colonel Gaddafi were not limited to air strikes. On the ground - and on the quiet - special forces soldiers w...

This is brilliant ! -

These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:  ----------------------...

Some of these are great fun ! Especially the first one ! (if you like getting wet that is)

Thirty years after the Falklands War, a British veteran prepares to travel across the world to meet the Argentine pilot who he shot out of t...

The replica Tiger I tank made made by a (Hungarian ?) company called ​​Rondo-S is quite an astonishing piece of work. This is no conversio...

We like low fast passes, and this is a good one :) - -

Regular follows of my ramblings will know I purchased my WW2 CCKW 352 in the end of July last year. At the time I joined the Military Vehi...

A 91-year-old former RAF pilot who flew Spitfires in the Second World War was told he could not sit in one of the fighters at a museum becau...

Back in the early 1990s I used to play a huge amount of Battletech , and one of my gaming circle at that time was a talented artist. As a f...

Two government authorities are in conflict over a huge World War II submarine bunker near the northern German city-state of Bremen, which is...

Oh my... - -

It never ceases to amaze me what just pops up on U-Tube. The first vid shows PIII and StugIII production, the second shows stills of Tiger ...

I'd like to wish readers of my blog all the best for the coming year.

The 'Best Of' Gun Accidents | Military.com - -

Realise I haven't provided a truck update for a bit. I resolved the oil pipe problem by: a) Selling on the new one that didn't ...

It is two years since the UK sent the first Merlin helicopters nearly 4,000 miles (6,400km) to Afghanistan. It is too far to fly the RAF hel...

Over this X-Mas break Mrs Vulture and I have been re-watching the Firefly series. - - There is such a lot to like about the series espe...

On 26 December 1943 one of the great sea battles of World War II took place. Link - -

Just a quick posting to wish all the readers of my blog a happy and stress-free (as possible) Christmas.

A ghost ship is a vessel that has mysteriously expelled its passengers and crew, refusing to indicate their whereabouts. Though theories suc...

This is an interesting article about one of the famous Shermans of the Battle of the Bugle. Link - -

You know what is like, you see object and you think, 'wow' that would look great with X figures. Well that is what happened recentl...

There are some interesting pictures on this thread on the Historic Military Vehicle Forum, especially of the ex Soviet Carrier Minsk. http:/...

Check out this vid of Tiger 131 being started for the first using the starting handle. - -

This is quite a cool animation. - -

Some of these would take some recovering ! - -

Came across this quite interesting photo gallery of the Battle Of The Bulge. - -

Came across this thread showing a home made 'low wall' Space Hulk set. Totally awesome looking it has to be said. Link - -

Brilliant ! - - -

The problem with the oil pipe that meant I had to be recovered last Saturday ( Link ) continues.... - - I ordered a new from Rex Ward ...

Its amazing what there still is out there to be found, and also the great condition it can be in as well. Link - -

My 9 year old son has been playing quite a bit of Battlefield 2 Special Forces these last few days, and felt inspired tonight to draw his f...

It was a hypothetical question that became a long online discussion and now a movie in development: Could a small group of heavily armed mod...

Its fair to say that Saturday wasn't without its stress... 1. New doors I've picked up for the CCKW truck won't fit without me...

Only in America could you own your own 3" anti-tank gun ! Cool ! I want one :) - -

Actual exchanges between pilots and control towers Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!" Delta 351: ...

This guy is a brilliant sketch artist. Link - -

This link is worth checking out. This old Russian bunker is simply massive ! Would love to visit it. Link - -

This was too good a picture, not to post :) Click on it to see all of it. - -

This is a list of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll. It covers the lowest estimate of death as well as the highest estimate, th...

Apparently the old Lightning on the A1 is no more :( I wondered what had happened to it... Link - Here's a (rather poor quality) pictu...

During battles at the end of World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians never got a decent burial. For almost 30 years, one m...

The family and I attended a short service at the Warboys village war memorial yesterday. Looking at the long list of those who gave their ...