A haul of classic wargaming books - posted by Vince Cholewa, 17 July 2023

What a haul! Many thanks to Mark Muir for finding these books and offering them to me. Wonderful additions to my slowly growing collection of wargaming classics, and a modern book about battles of the crusades snuck in there, too

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• Adrian Jarvis

  Some real classics there. A copy of Featherstone's "Advanced War Games" was my gateway into wargaming

  

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    Adrian Jarvis mine was Donald Featherstone’s “War Games” borrowed from the Brooklyn branch of the Wellington Public Library 

    

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  • Adrian Jarvis

    Actually I might be mistaken and it was a copy of Donald Featherstone’s “War Games” borrowed from the Cashmere High School library  I remember playing Lionel Tarr's World War II Rules

    

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  I always liked the old Airfix Guides.. especially the rules in the Napoleonic one..

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    Mark Muir I have this one, too 

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      Vincent Cholewa i also picked up a bound copy of the first 12 issues of Military Modelling from 1973..

      

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      Mark Muir I remember those. I had several years’ issues in offical binders 

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    • Cernell Blimp

      Vincent Cholewa this one is bound like a book..

      

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• Mim Cholewa

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  I can see a period of saying “Vince…” over and over to get his attention on the horizon

  

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    Mim Cholewa yes dear. What did you say? 

    

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• Alastair Duncan

  At this rate we will be back to Airfix Brits with solid wheel chariots!!!!!

  

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  From “So You Want to Play Wargames”

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  Vincent Cholewa oh dear ..i remember all those figure conversion articles in Airfix Magazine..they worked , sort of , in 54mm but with 20mm they were very fiddly and the battlefields were left strewn with heads , shields , wire spears etc..

  

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  Mark Muir you needed the right glue: Boston Five Minute Adhesive, Quickset or Rapid Araldite.

• • Tim Simmons

    Vincent Cholewa That photo places the book

    in the early stage of Airfix Napoleonics, when those were the only sets available. You could only field highlanders in the British army and French infantry had to be made used the marching gunners with shouldered muskets from the French artillery box. My friend and I couldn’t believe it when more sets came out. Happy memories!

    

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      Tim Simmons Happy memories in deed  In Wellington, where I grew up, there were two stores, Modelcrafts and Hobbies and Partytime, that were wargamers main suppliers. My first Airfix sets were ACW and my first kit was their Golden Hind, sold in a plastic bag with the the label stapled over the top and the instructions folded inside the label.

      

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• Adrian Jarvis

  I love the smell of banana oil in the morning... smells like .. victory

  

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