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, 4 August 2026
Indebted
I am indebted to a reader of this blog who kindly brought the magazines from which the below articles come from. He brought them for me to photograph at Claymore. Thank you. I post them here so you all can enjoy.
Splendid sharing! It’s always marvellous to see classic wargaming material preserved and shared like this—hats off to the reader who brought them along to Claymore for you to photograph.
Didn't a manufacturer at the time receive a cease and desist from Airfix for producing conversions like this in metal? Maybe the very early days of Minifigs.
I still have those issues - I remember the article on converting figures to Han Chinese, all the talk of the mysterious banana oil and using drawing pin shields...
Great fun to be had there Alan!
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Hi Alan,
ReplyDeleteSplendid sharing! It’s always marvellous to see classic wargaming material preserved and shared like this—hats off to the reader who brought them along to Claymore for you to photograph.
All the best, Andy
Agree re disseminating the hobby’s heritage. Hats off indeed!
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Didn't a manufacturer at the time receive a cease and desist from Airfix for producing conversions like this in metal? Maybe the very early days of Minifigs.
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I still have those issues - I remember the article on converting figures to Han Chinese, all the talk of the mysterious banana oil and using drawing pin shields...
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Ah ! the olden days when magazines had REAL articles in them , not the glossy twaddle we get now !
ReplyDeleteSoooooo Trueeee!
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