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Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | May 15 2012 | 12:30 pm
I spent last weekend at the Campaign show in Milton Keynes. I think it would be fair to characterise trade as slow but steady and, overall, it was a worthwhile weekend. My stand was next door to Ed and Harry from new company War Mill who were promoting their range of laser cut sci-fi buildings. …
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | May 10 2012 | 10:41 am
You do get some odd phone calls in this job. Yesterday, I took one from an irate (and, it has to be said, rather foul-mouthed) woman who said her boyfriend had witnessed an act of animal cruelty and wanted me to put this hot news item into my publication. (The police and RSPCA weren’t interested,…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | May 8 2012 | 1:40 pm
Monthly magazines do come round with disconcerting regularity, don’t they? No sooner have I finished blogging about the reviews of MW349, than MW350 arrives from the printers. It’s another packed issue – from the Falklands War cover story to an exclusive Arnhem scenario for the new Combat Action Command rules via Marston Moor, Ayacucho, Garcia…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | May 8 2012 | 1:31 pm
Regular readers will know I am working on a wargame project to simulate War Plan Red – the US contingency plan for an invasion of Canada and war with Britain in the 1930s. There was a documentary about it on Channel 5 last year and this month the Military History channel will get in on…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | May 4 2012 | 9:41 am
One of the people I had the pleasure of meeting at Salute was Gavin Syme of Alternative Armies/15mm.co.uk. He had come down to London all the way from Ayrshire (and I thought the drive from Nottingham was a bit of a schlep!) to exhibit his Flintloque and USE ME rules and figures, among other things….
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | May 3 2012 | 1:06 pm
This is a quick update to the story in the current issue about the trip being organised by Chris Brown to mark this September’s anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem. Chris now tells me that the first bus is now fully booked and he is laying on a second trip which will be in Arnhem…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | April 30 2012 | 10:08 am
I was perusing the Airfix website, as one does, and alighted on the page dedicated to the company’s model of the Titanic – a new kit released for the recent 100th anniversary of the disaster. This page included a map of the North Atlantic showing the Titanic’s route from Europe to New York and the…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | April 23 2012 | 2:45 pm
Well, that’s Salute over for another year! It was a very long day (up at 4 a.m. to make the 150-mile drive to London; setting up between 7 and 9.30, trading until 5.00 then packing up and driving home to be back at 9.30 pm) but very worthwhile and rewarding. I saw lots of familiar…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | April 11 2012 | 3:57 pm
Now, I don’t want you to get over-excited but it is only 10 days to Salute!!! Yes, British wargaming’s biggest day out is just around the corner and, the question is, how do you plan your trip and avoid running around like a headless chicken looking for that particular trader or game you want to…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | April 11 2012 | 3:49 pm
I hope you all had a nice Easter break – I was very good and didn’t stuff my face with chocolate eggs or anything! What I did do, however, was use the four day weekend to finish painting my US and Canadian 1930s armies for my forthcoming War Plan Red project. All to be revealed…
