Balkan Wargamer

I have published an overview of my recent tour of Montenegro at Balkan Military History. I can't recommend this country for a visit s...

My holiday fiction reading has been a catch up of Bernard Cornwell books. I can remember the day when I would buy hardbacks of his books ...

These are the forts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy to defend their bases in the Bay of Kotorska, or as they would have described it Catt...

I am on holiday in the Balkans, where else you might say! To be specific, Kotor in Montenegro. The old town of Kotor (Cattaro) as sho...

I have just finished David Gilman’s, ‘Master of War: The Blooding’, the first part of his Hundred Years’ War series . Gil...

My skirmish with all things De Montfort and early medieval period continues with my latest non-fiction reading, 'The Second Barons' ...

I made a long overdue return visit to the Fleet Air Arm museum at Yeovilton today. This really is very well laid out. Everything you cou...

Some more 28mm WW2 Greeks off the production line for Bolt Action. Another platoon of infantry supported by a heavy machine gun. Still got a...

One of my favourite medieval characters is Robert Guiscard, a Norman knight who journeyed to Southern Italy to make his fortune. It wa...

Bit of a picture fest in this month's Balkan Military History update. The feature piece is the Ottoman army from the late medieval per...

This is a very useful and rare collection of Serbian uniform plates from 1808. Posted on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiMCTRA1...

I picked this book up at Triples together with a similar one in the series, Warriors of Japan. That one has some very good colour plates of ...

Some progress with the WW2 Yugoslavia project. A couple of platoons of Italian infantry fresh off the production line. I also picked up...

Yesterday was the Wappinshaw show in Glasgow's Kelvin Hall. A new venue for this show and not likely to be repeated as the halls are bei...

These figures are for our Claymore demo, Raid on Tito . They will be Tito and his bodyguard. However, they will make an appearance at Wappin...

We made the journey down to Sheffield over the weekend for two days at the Triples show. My first time at the new venue. Plenty of space in ...

It was the Falkirk  Carronade show yesterday. Fine venue for a big show feel. What I really like is the large amount of games being played. ...

We did a cut down version of our Wappinshaw display game, Glasgow Green 1938 , at the club on Sunday. Waves of Government forces attacking t...