Partizan… 2025.

Greetings…

So it’s only taken over a week for me to post the pictures of my flying visit to Partizan last week.(18th May)…

All the usual things have gotten in the way… Life , Work and Health… Yes… good old Health…The eye is starting to improve a bit… but the rest of me is a wreck 🤣🙀🤣…

I blame a lot of my aches and pains on the weather…I think we are having four seasons a day at the moment… And they are all grey ,grey, grey grey.🙄

So…

Here are some pictures of the games that caught my eye…

First up a lovely Wars of the Roses game from The Bodkins…

Next up…

A Peninsular War game from The Perrys…

Alan tells me these are Horreros…

And now The League of Augsburg…

The Dutch Invasion of Hispaniola…

Next… Eastern Front 1941.

From the Derby Wargames Society (I Think).

And finally…

Wake Island… Or maybe a version of Wake Island… 

From…

The League of Extraordinary Kreigspielers…

My loot for the day…

If I had more time and more energy I am sure I would have got a lot more…

My butterfly was disappointed but my wallet was delighted 🤣😂🤣

Time constraints meant I couldn’t judge the Tabletop Vignette competition… So I don’t know who the winner was…

But… My vote would have been for this…

A beautiful Sassanid Command Stand…

I believe from The Bradley Barn Wargames Group…

So there you go… A short but enjoyable visit and many thanks to Alessandro for giving me a lift and to Lorenzo for buying me Ice Cream…

It was apparently one of the busiest Partizans ever… It certainly looked like it…

My only gripe would be a lack of comfy seating for grumpy old gentleman like me.. And cakes 😁

All the best.  Aly

Dads Army… New Toys…

Greetings…

Alas it is still very quiet on the painting front…

The eye is definitely getting better… And I have been sticking lots of plastic toys together…

I have even undercoated some…

I thought I would post a picture of some very patient figures that I had painted by my chum Mark Hargreaves… They are currently sitting on my desk shouting…”BASE ME”…

Mark has done a splendid job on these and I hope to add more figures to this slow burner of a project…

Eventually I would like to have a little campaign set in and around Nottingham involving places like Trent Bridge and Wollaton Hall…

So here you go…

These pictures were supplied by Mark… I will be posting more once I have them based.

We are slowly getting closer to seeing German Gliders swooping down on Wollaton Hall and Kriegsmarine assaulting the Cricket Ground.. The castle might be harder to recreate 😁

Hopefully some finished figures sooner rather than later…

All the best.  Aly

The Hundred Days… Rediscovered ‘Publications’

Greetings …

While packing up books and magazines to make room for the building and redecorating of the Wargames Room/ Library I rediscovered these…They had somehow managed to slide behind a couple of much bigger books.

I completely forgot that I had these…

They are of course from Almark Publications who back in the day produced some splendid works for the Wargamer and Collector…

I think these must have been produced as a ‘Part Works’…

Their rediscovery has happened at the perfect time and they will come in very useful when I can eventually get back to painting my toys…

I will make a point to look out for the missing issues at Partizan in a couple of weeks…

All the best   Aly.