Vulture's Wargaming Blog

On the last two Thursdays at the Harrogate Club my gaming group has been trying out a set of Modern gaming rules that we have been developin...

An F-16 took off from Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., on Sept. 19 without a pilot in the cockpit.  Read more: Link . - -

- Comment:  These guys have got their work cut out trying to get this King Tiger running again.  Looks like damage to both front drive sp...

Last year I was contacted by keen modeller called Morten Moeslund who wished to build a 1/16th scale model of a CCKW truck and was looking f...

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This is worth a read, about a chap called Ed Deluka and his experience during the Battle of The Bulge.  Link - -

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A haunting look inside a once state-of-the-art military hospital: Images show the crumbling buildings where soldiers from the Somme were tre...

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- Comment :  Assuming this a not staged, this is a very unusual shot of a Russian AT shell lodged in the gun mantle of a WW2 German Tiger ...

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An interesting vid about the German Leopard 2 - -

Slightly gutted today to hear that Donald Featherstone has died.  I've posted about him a couple of times previously Link.  A prodigious...

A British Army officer captured by the Germans during World War One was granted temporary leave from a prisoner of war camp to visit his dyi...

My son is still massively into Minecraft .  I was hoping his enthusiasm might have waned slightly since I posted on 27 Jul , but no, it just...

We are thinking of doing some Modern gaming (at the Harrogate Wargames Club) in 10mm, and few of us have been dusting off some old and new r...

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I've been corresponding with a guys called Michael Taylor about the FUBAR Sc-Fi version of the rules I adapted Link .  He referred me to...

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It was discovered by chance and hailed by archaeologists as the most significant find since the Mary Rose. But in spite of years of painstak...

For those what are aren't quite sure what the difference is between The UK, England, And Great Britain. Link

As the 100th anniversary of WWI approaches, growing numbers are tracing their genealogy back to Europe's battlefields. Matthew Davis wen...

The pastor asked if anyone in the congregation would like to express praise for answered prayers. Suzie Smith stood and walked to the podi...

Ralph is a short World War One film, based on the true story of Producer Matthew Lightstone’s Great Great Uncle; Ralph Howells, Signing up u...

This weekend, German officials will travel to Russia for the opening of the latest in a long line of war cemeteries containing the graves of...

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.