After all this time, and being locked ot of this account by Google for ages, I finally recovered access to this blog. And so, I have taken t...

Steve Winter's Fire & Sword in the Sudan which used to be available on his Colonial Angle website is a very ingenious set of c...

A slight account migration mishap has resulted in all the blog's photos disappearing into thin air and I am slowly putting them ba...

Vietnam Ironclads: A Pictorial History Of U.S. Navy River Assault Craft, 1966-1970 is a real labour of love by John M. Carrico coverin...

Hovercraft are to Vietnam what Kingtigers are to World War 2: the coolest piece of kit, produced in tiny amounts an...

Although it is completely atypical of the war, the battle of Hue during the 1968 Tet offensive has long been of particular interest ...

Well, well, well... Doesn't time fly? There I was thinking that I should get back to updating this blog when I suddenly realised th...

Card-driven games as not to everyone's taste and while some people loathe them, I love them. I sometimes think this dislike of card...

Used by soldiers, spooks and warlords the world over, Mil's Mi-8 Hip is probably the world's most produced helicopter (althoug...

Way back when I was a wee lad (well, actually it was more like ten years ago), I bought some QRF 15mm LWB Landrovers which had formerly ...

Along with the WMIKs and Snatch Landrovers, the Steyr-Daimler-Puch Pinzgauer truck is one of the iconic vehicles of the early days of Br...

Chieftains by Bob Forrest-Webb first popped up on my radar screen way back in 1986-87 when I bought TTG's Battlezones - Scenarios fo...

Just for a change, a Cold War stalwart has joined the ultra modern vehicles I have on the assembly line: QRF's 15mm FV701 Ferret Mk ...

For a bit of armour support when the Warriors  and Challengers are not around, the Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicle can stand i...

Along with the Challenger 2 (reviewed here ) my last order from QRF included a trio of  MCV80 Warrior with Chobham  which is the FV51...