The adventures of an 18th century imagination, located in Northern Europe formerly ruled over by joint rulers Duke Karl Frederick and Duchess Liv.Not to mention the American colony of Ny Tradgardland the 17th century Colony of New Tradgardstadt and the newly restored territory of the Shetland Isles.
Featuring a supporting bill of gaming in a diversity of times,places and scales.Hopefully something to interest all who pop by...
Tuesday 2 May 2023
Long ago and far away
Pictures from a magazine kindly given to me by Ronnie recently.
Members of the gaming Pantheon indeed. There from the start. Where would we be without them. I for one probably wouldn’t be gaming without their inspiration had from their writings. Alan Tradgardland
Excellent. Talk about a different world. Photos from a model railway show of that time would show the same trend in attire. A shame there were no captions. I agree with the identification of Messrs bath and Barker. I have a couple of issues of Miniature Warfare somewhere, I must have a look for them.
I've just remembered that there are a number of articles from Miniature Warfare on the Vintage Wargaming blog: http://vintagewargaming.blogspot.com/search/label/Miniature%20Warfare
Happy days, though I didn't get to my first Regional Final until 74 and first National Final until 75. Strangely, it felt like they had been going on for years! Knew George Gush back then from Conventions but didn't know who he was until I saw his picture somewhere - maybe Slingshot? That picture is the only time I can remember Phil Barker wearing a tie!
The biggest change has been the attire (and ties) of the participants.
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Excellent! That was kind of Ronnie.
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Thanks, it was indeed.
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LOL I thought the same as Quantrilltoy - no Swinging Sixties on the wargames trail in 1968, by the look of the shirts and ties on display!
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A very young Phil Barker and Tony Bath (?) in picture 4.
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Members of the gaming Pantheon indeed. There from the start. Where would we be without them. I for one probably wouldn’t be gaming without their inspiration had from their writings.
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Excellent. Talk about a different world. Photos from a model railway show of that time would show the same trend in attire. A shame there were no captions. I agree with the identification of Messrs bath and Barker. I have a couple of issues of Miniature Warfare somewhere, I must have a look for them.
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ReplyDeleteIm lucky enough to have this magazine and still re-read that and the many others I own. Its nice to see a young George Gush amongst the images.
ReplyDeleteHappy days, though I didn't get to my first Regional Final until 74 and first National Final until 75. Strangely, it felt like they had been going on for years! Knew George Gush back then from Conventions but didn't know who he was until I saw his picture somewhere - maybe Slingshot? That picture is the only time I can remember Phil Barker wearing a tie!
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