Am I regressing to my youth as I approach retirement?  I think I may be. When I was in my early teens I was a keen modeller spending ...

It's been a while since I posted a book review.  Over four years in fact.  Not that I've stopped reading or buying books.  It...

After all that stodgy stuff about L’Art De La Guerre (ADLG) in the last post I thought I’d just write a short piece about my current pr...

This post has under gone a significant update following a reply from the publisher. Read the update ...

This book was meant to form part of my Christmas reading but I gave in and started it early.  In some ways I wish I hadn’t.  I’m just over o...

Continuing my growing fixation with the Western Desert, I recently completed reading Barrie Pitt's "Crucible of War" trilogy. ...

More second hand reading finds: Here are my one sentence reviews: "The Full Monty" is a whopping 780 pages excluding...

Here's the latest additions to my library: Unusually for me these were purchased new and were read one after the other in very shor...

I've just finished some heavyweight reading.  The two books below cover very different periods but share the same aim of producing reada...

I started this year reading books on an old theme: the Western Desert in WWII. As it turned out I read two very different books. Panzer Comm...

I've mainly been reading non-fiction for the last few weeks and I finally got round to yet more of the my "to be read sometime...

It's been a while since I covered my reading habits mainly because I've been reading novels but here's three history books that ...

Once the UK goes on its summer holidays the country enters the silly season for news. However, the silly season usually starts ...

In March I post the test base of my first attempt at some 15 mm WWII figures from Peter Pig . Speedy as ever, I've now finished the whol...

Whilst at Phalanx I decided to buy some painted 15 mm Russian figures from the bring and buy. I bought painted figures because I want to exp...

In early February I bought a box of 5 Plastic Soldier Company 15 mm T34s. They looked great and stirred memories of the Airfix kits of my yo...

After years of painting medieval figures for DBx and now FOG I thought I'd try something a bit different. So here we have my first attem...