Archive for the ‘ Hobby ’ Category
A friend sent me a group of pictures from WW2 that included many I have not seen, or if I did, forgot I saw them. Whatever the case, many are interesting like this one. It captures the moment a P-47 Thunderbolt has fired its rockets. By 1944 and the Normandy Invasion the P-47 Thunderbolt (the [ READ MORE ]
This is personal trivia but here goes anyway. Way back in the days before INET or Facebook games, before Xbox and PlayStation and before pc games I had a M4 Sherman tank model that we used in tabletop war-gaming (1970′s). The models were hand-painted or air-brushed and we used pictures of the real thing from WW2 to detail the [ READ MORE ]
My uncle Leo (Leonard) was only twenty-one when he died. I never knew him but found a picture of him holding me when I was a baby of nine months old. It appears he is laughing and delighted to be holding his tiny 9 month old nephew. I know Leo only from what mom had [ READ MORE ]
Another quote from Anthony Beevor’s, D-Day-The Battle for Normandy: Soldiers were advised to lie still if wounded by a sniper. He would not waste another round on a corpse, but would certainly fire again if they tried to crawl away. German snipers concealed in trees often tied themselves to the trunk so that they would [ READ MORE ]
I was checking out my favorite WW2 picture website and came across the below picture. I posted it because I recently posted a couple of other pictures relating to the Australian armed forces in WW2. This picture is interesting to me because two of the soldiers are armed with the Enfield, the standard rifle issued [ READ MORE ]
First Legion, 60mm Roman Centurion To the left is a picture from the First Legion website of the latest addition to my miniatures collection. It was a Christmas gift my son and daughter-in-law. My other Roman figures from the period represented are from King and Country and they are fine figures, but frankly this Centurion [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been recovering from a major foot surgery and the other day received three very cool “get well” cards from some kids at my church. Many thanks to Noelle, Jackson and Calvin for the Scripture encouragement and very cool art work featuring Lego soldiers. These young folks know of my interest in history and decorated [ READ MORE ]
As a genre I love to read history. As a sub-genre I love to read military history and even historical novels. I tend to read them in batches or in sequence if they are part of series. I’ll hang around in different time periods and read all I can and eventually move on to another [ READ MORE ]
Since I’ve recommend King and Country Miniatures I thought it would be nice to give the interested the K & C link. This is Davy Crockett from their “Remember the Alamo” line. I don’t have this figure but I probably should. I grew up under the influence of John Wayne’s The Alamo and his portrayal of Crockett. [ READ MORE ]
The Battle of the Bulge represented Germany’s last offensive fling on the Western Front. The Reich’s days were numbered and Hitler had to know it. He decided on a desperate gamble to discourage the Western Allies by launching an offensive that would sever the allies from the Belgian ports that had been recently liberated. The attack was [ READ MORE ]
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