Vulture's Wargaming Blog

This site is dedicated to 1/6th and 1/30th scale models built by the Kampfgruppe von Abt modelling team, living in England.  Well worth a lo...

One of the largest video game space battles ever seen has taken place in the Eve Online game. For five hours on 28 July about 4,000 player...

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My 11 year old son has become totally immersed in the whole Minecraft thing. - -

The Spitfire is more famous but, discovers Jasper Copping, the de Havilland Mosquito can claim to be the plane that won the war. Read more ...

Comment :  I have never seen a Sherman so badly blown apart, supposedly by German engineers after the battle of Kasserine Pass . -

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In movies and books about the Cold War and whatever era we are in now and wherever we're going, it is not uncommon for two submarines to...

Nice bit of footage of a T34/85 at this years War & Peace Show here in the UK.  Wish I could have made it along...  :( - -

At the height of WWII, as deadly German V1 and V2 rockets were fired from northern France towards the UK, a country house by the banks of th...

Went along with the family plus CCKW truck to the Yorkshire Wartime Experience on Saturday 6th Jul with the family and my brother-in-law.  F...

It's 70 years since Kursk, the largest ever tank battle. Will there ever be another battle involving thousands of tanks on each side or ...

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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. - -