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Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | May 25 2012 | 9:57 am
Warhammer Historical has closed down. Anyone else as surprised as me? It was announced yesterday and they told me this morning they are “concentrating on the core part of the business” of Warhammer and 40K. They confirmed none of the IP is for sale. One of the major stockists of WH products I spoke to…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | May 23 2012 | 11:29 am
I spent last weekend at Triples in Sheffield. Overall, it was a good show but again raises my bugbear about why some shows have to run for two days. Compared to Saturday, Sunday was exceedingly quiet and my take from the trade stand didn’t justify the cost of doing the extra day. The costs amounted…
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…
