Vulture's Wargaming Blog

The Zoo Keeper A bloke starts his new job at the zoo and is given three tasks. First is to clear the exotic fish pool of weeds. As he ...

Merry Christmas everyone  :)

Having just returned from the Harrogate Wargames Club, I can share with you after playing my 4th WW2 game in 10mm scale using the Flames of ...

The Tank Museum’s Tiger 131 is home once again, after stealing the show on the set of Brad Pitt’s upcoming war film 'Fury'. Link -...

The Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor is burned into the American consciousness. But for two North Texans, Dec. 8 is the day the...

These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. The exchange between Churchill &...

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This is a fascinating read, highly recommended: Link .  The recollections of Clarence Smoyer as his time as a crewman in a M26 Perishing tan...

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A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City , where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entr...

Chaps, just seen this on the BBC web site. Link Can't wait for the film to come out :) - A World War Two Tiger tank - thought to be t...

Further to my posting on 12 Nov , I've now assembled the vehicle and given it a base coat of grey primer.  I've slightly modified it...

Spotted a new version of the series of 8 wheeled vehicles that Ground Zero Games (GZG) manufacture.   This one has a Multiple Rocket Launch...

Mustard gas blisters and a daily risk of death: Bravery of soldiers still clearing the 'iron harvest' of World War I shells from ben...

Here in the UK it's been Remembrance Sunday when all over the country people attend services and parades to remember those affected by ...

Found another Flames of War unit creation site called Easy Army.com Link   A labour of love it has been,  putting it all together.

- Comment:  Worth watching.   In 2005, an 83 year-old World War II pilot is surprised to see 16mm footage of his 1944 Spitfire crash for ...

A guy was sitting quiet...

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On Sunday went over to the Royal Armouries in Leeds for the annual FIASCO wargames convention. Ended up spending a lot more than I first ...

Whilst thinking about the type of force mix required for a 1,500 US Tank Destroyer Company in Flames Of War (FOW) I happened across this ver...

Comment :  Just came across this astonishing photo of a wrecked tank park.  I can spot: -  Panther -  Tiger II -  T35/85 -  Sherman - ...

The battle has been described as the bloodiest engagement in Europe until the First World War. Polish Lancers - played by re-enactors here -...

The 18th Century was a tumultuous period for the Royal Navy. From bustling dockyards to ferocious sea battles - and from jolly Jack Tars to ...

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At the club last Thursday whilst some of our gaming chums tried out a 1/300th game of the new FoW Arab Israeli supplement, John Elwen and my...

This quite an interesting article on the cost of WW2. Link

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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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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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