Vulture's Wargaming Blog

Air travel has become a major part of our society, with industries and individuals depending on air transport for their livelihood. But have...

This article on the Battlefront web site about Battlefields of the Netherlands in WW2 is worth a read. Link

My chosen picture this week is of a Sherman tank at Okinawa. I've never seen one with this much additional armour tacked on! - -

Since I posted on 3 Jun about the issues with the trucks windscreen seal, after a great deal of ringing around I sourced a replacement from...

Allied penetration of the western defences of Germany. The Siegfried Line an Allied label based on German World War I defences, known to the...

A series of never-before-published color images of the devastation in northern France after the D-Day landings have been released by LIFE.co...

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A German World War II Dornier bomber has been raised from the bottom of the English Channel. Link to BBC Web site.

Brought the truck home yesterday and detoured via Cliffords Tower here in York for a quick photo  :) The historic and the ancient togethe...

Had to make a trip down to Grantham today, so took the opportunity on the way to visit by the Newark Air Museum .  For years I have been pa...

I'm happy to re-post the announcement from the Forge Of War Yahoo Group.  This a rule set well worth supporting for those interested in ...

It is on reading this article about Greece's suffering during WW2 that I now start to appreciate/understand the Greeks fury at having au...

Saw this photo, and just loved it. - -

This is a class advert (turn the volume up loud).  I might be lusting after this vehicle just a tiny tiny bit...  :) - -

- Comment :  Nothing feels good about this :(   Link  and Link -

Saw this impressive looking C130 Hercules at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford in 2006. - - -

We think of the world as a crowded place in an era when even Mt. Everest has cell phone coverage, you wouldn't think that anything could...

1. ONE TEQUILA, TWO TEQUILA, THREE TEQUILA...... FLOOR. 2. ATHEISM IS A NON-PROPHET ORGANIZATION. 3. IF MAN EVOLVED FROM MONKEYS AND APE...

Testing of German Armour by the French army at the secret Henschel tank testing grounds (Henschel Panzerversuchsstation) in Haustenbeck,Germ...

The space shuttle Endeavour made its last journey, traveling 12-miles on city streets from Los Angeles International Airport, through Inglew...

Yesterday I went along to ‘Battlegroup North’ at the Elvington Air Museum. I had a choice of attending on either the Saturday or the Sunday...

Here's a link to an interesting article on WW2 bunkers along the French coast. - -

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the...

- Comment :  The Aliens Pulse rifle, is the one to have... :) -

This coming weekend the Yorkshire area group of the Military Vehicle Trust are holding their annual show Battle at the Yorkshire Air Museum....

Check out some of the amazing things things that these people have made out of Lego - Link - -

Some interesting pictures here of a wrecked Panther tank being recovered from a river bed. Link - -

JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wa...

A real-life Atlantis which sunk off the coast of Egypt nearly 1,200 years ago has now been brought back to the surface with the help of 3D. ...

- Comment :  A very impressive terrain set-up of the WW2 Market Garden Operation.  It took 4 people 3 and 1/2 hours to set up the table an...

A father buys a lie detector robot that slaps people when they lie. He decides...

- Comment : This is worth watching if you are interested in armoured vehicles. -

Each year The  Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs  (FBHVC) encourages the members from affiliated clubs to get their classic/ancie...

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Last Saturday I posted how my son and I had started playing Mechwarrior Online.  Well, the term 'slightly addicted' does spring to ...

SIMPLE TRUTH #1 Lovers help each other undress before sex. However after sex, they always dress on their own. Moral of the story: In ...

A must check out for all Battletech fans is the new MechWarrior Online game.  Currently free to play in Beta mode, my son and I had a coupl...

Went along on Sunday to the first event of the year for the Yorkshire branch of the Military Vehicle Trust (MVT). Held at Cliffords Tower i...

On Thursday I joined in with a game already underway that the Harrogate Club.  Assigned a Infantry unit Stalins in army,  as a real FoW rule...

SCOTTISH COMPASSION............... A man was sitting on a blanket at the beach. He had no arms and no legs. Three women, from England , ...

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Archaeologists have nicknamed the site 'the Pompeii of the North'. When archaeologists were called to a site in the City of London ...

Alex and I love well-done stop-motion movies.  Have experimented ourselves we can appreciate the amount of effort involved.  This is a reall...

This is worth a read about the Battle For Berlin in 1945.   Link - -

A King Tiger is being restored by a team in Switzerland. The photos are worth a look at Link . Comment :  I would love to be involved in t...