Ooops here I go again

I've bought a job lot of second hand models and figures most of which I'll have to trade/sell. I'll be sorting them out over the next couple of days and post a list of what's to trade/sell.

Burgundian references

Since I'm working on my Burgundians I'm using this to keep a record of my references and links.

Links
Top site - Simon Chick's Je Lay Emprins, lovely 28mm figures.
A useful summary of the ordonnance companies flags (mainly low resolution copies from the Freezywater book (link)
Tom Oberhofer's Charles The Bold page has details of coinage and the battles of Grandson, Morat and Nancy (link)
The Muerten (Morat) Panorama has nice details (link)

Books
Freezywater (Lance & Longbow) - The Burgundian Army of Charles the Bold
Hobilar (L&L Journal) Issue 19
Osprey - Armies of Medieval Burgundy, 1364-1477
WRG - Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 1: The Hundred Years' War, the War of the Roses and the Burgundian Wars, 1300-1487
Casterman(Funcken) - Armies de touts les Temps - one of the medieval pages covers Burgundians
Richard Vaughan's books on the dukes of Burgundy - take your pick on whichever ducal reign you're covering - still best history published in English.
Wargames Soldiers Strategy 64 - the battles and sieges of Charles the Bold. Issue 30 covered the Burgundian-Swiss wars.
Renaissance Armies by George Gush, contains a chapter
Valois Burgundy by Vaughan, which compliments the 4 ducal titles
Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy by R D Smith and K Devries

Flags
Plenty of excellent images on Dansk Figurspilsforenings
Some useful ones on Warflag
Lance & Longbow - Freezeywater flags using the same artwork as the book above.
Pavises - some decals from Little Big Men (28mm though)
Donnington Miniatures has a couple of Burgundian flag sheets

I'll be adding more as I find it, but any other useful references/links please let me know.

Thanks to Simon and Bob for the updates so far

German Sdkfz 251/3

Back to normal. I've finished the 251/3s that have been on my painting table for ages. I had a bit of a battle fixing the frame aerials, which was not helped by using some epoxy adhesive that didn't set properly!

The DAK version, plus some Sdkfz 10s, a Sdkfz 221 (both from Frontline) and a Horsh field car (Ready to Roll)


The early war European version, the basic vehicle is matchbox and the equipment is a mix of bits from SHQ, the aerial was a simple loop so I added the extra parts from copper wire.

Needles Old Battery

I'm currently taking an enforced rest from painting as I crushed my thumb in the car door - idiot!. So here's some pictures of the Needles Old Battery from my recent trip to the Isle of Wight. (link to the National Trust site)

It's a great mix from the Victorian old battery to the new and then the "secret" rocket testing site, despite being bright there was a gale force wind and a possibility that the site would be closed.

Some pictures of the old battery, the entrance across the ditch.


Overview of the battery


The needles lighthouse, the white crests in the mid ground mark the shoal so that ships have to pass in close to the battery


One of the 7 inch Armstrong guns, luckily when they came to the end of their useful life they were just tipped off the cliff instead of being sent off to be smelted down



Finally, an excellent picture of the battery from the sea taken by Steve the Wargamer, thanks Steve.

Venice - military sights

The are a couple of sites of interest in Venice for anyone interested in Military History/Militaria

First is the armoury in the Doge's palace, cases full of renaissance arms and armour (no photography permitted) and an exhibition with a number of plans of various fortified towns.


The real gem is the Museo Navale Storico, the Naval History museum, filled with ship models, uniforms, etc. It's only 1.55 Euro to get in a real bargain and my wife enjoyed it as well so I got plenty of time to look at the exhibits.

The entrance has an original Maiale (pig) the two man human torpedo used to attack various anchorages used by the British navy in the Mediterranean.


A couple of nice Galleys




The Doge's barge, burnt by the French when they occupied Venice


Some nice figures, I need to look them up in my reference books




A WW2 Italian landing craft.


The Vitoria Veneto


A far eastern collection includes a Korean Turtle ship


A Thai barge


Outside is an enterance to the Arsenal, shame it's not open to the public as it's still a Military dockyard

Sheffield Triples 2013

For once I was just a normal attendee at the show as for some reason the organiser couldn't fit our game in. Therefore I spent most of my times around the trade stands having a good look at what wa new and discussing forthcoming releases.

Just a few pictures from the show of games that caught my eye.
A "Fun in the sand" Sudan game




The best of the show for me, the Ilkley lads Cerignola 1503




Battlegroup Overlord


Gross Beeren, a nice big Napoleonic game, but the buildings seemed rather odd.


A Peninsula Skirmish


Purchasing was very very modest

• Four boxes of the Zvezda 2pdrs
• A Rommel command set from SHQ for my DAK
• second hand Revell SYW Cavalry and Zvezda French Artillery - they will be useful

Still I great day out and good to meet lots of people

Back from Venice and off to Triples

Picked up a last minute bargain just over a week ago so I've had a week in Venice. But only one pictures until after I go to Triples today.