Category Archives: Naval

Ships

27 May 2007 – 10:45

I was chatting to a friend the other day and she noted how many books about ships I had. I had to confess then that I loved ships. What a wonderful piece of machinery, especially the older steam vessels and naval vessels. The ship itself is one big machine served by a crew whose task [...]

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American Civil War Naval Starter Set

1 May 2007 – 1:27

Six Langton 1/1200th scale ships packaged together as a starter pack for American Civil War Naval Games. The six ships are the vessels that happen to be in the Battle o­n the Yazoo scenario from the Iron and Fire Rules. Now, leaving aside all the jokes you could make about being up the Yazoo and [...]

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Langton Miniatures - Anglo Dutch Starter Pack

27 April 2007 – 19:20

This is a starter pack for Langton Miniatures 1/1200th Anglo Dutch War vessels. The pack itself contains two ships (one British and one Dutch), ensigns, rigging materials (net for ratlines as well as black and brown thread) as well as a guide to assembling, painting and rigging these vessels.
It should be noted at this point [...]

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The Chinese Steam Navy by Richard N J Wright

22 April 2007 – 18:46

Richard Wright’s Chinese Steam Navy looks at the Chinese Navy from around 1860 through to 1945, the period that the Chinese first looked at expanding their navy with modern ships. The book covers the Sino-French War of 1884 and the Battle of Foochow in particular as well as the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5 and the [...]

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Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1922-1946, editor, Roger Chesnau

14 April 2007 – 18:36

Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1922-1946 is the third in the series by Conway, taking us from the end of the First World War to the end of the Second World War. Over this period, the Washington Treaty came into play, limiting capital ships. A rapid rearmament towards the middle and end of the [...]

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Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1906-1921, editor, Randal Gray

9 April 2007 – 18:04

Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1906-1921 is also one of my most used and viewed reference works at the moment (along with the other Conway’s and The China Steam Navy reviewed elsewhere). Conway’s is the most complete reference on ships from the end of the pre-Dreadnought period to the end of the First World [...]

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Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1860-1905, editor Robert Gardiner

5 April 2007 – 0:01

Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1860-1905 is probably my most used and viewed reference work at the moment (along with The China Steam Navy reviewed elsewhere). Conway’s is the most complete reference on ironclad and pre-Dreadnought vessels in service from the American Civil War through to the Russian Japanese War of 1904-1905.
To read more [...]

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Poltava and Cataluna from WTJ Naval Miniatures

28 March 2007 – 19:47

WTJ Naval is the manufacturing and foundry branch of The War Times Journal. Their main goal is the creation of affordable wargaming miniatures that have clean, accurately scaled features. The current line of 1/3000 scale naval miniatures was kicked off with the release of a long sought selection of pre-dreadnought battleships and cruisers, which will [...]

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A Test Post - Can I Post a Picture?

2 November 2006 – 12:34

This post was to have a further look at Blogger beta blogging and to see how it goes when I need to handle a picture. I really do not want to use Hello - I was not happy with it 6 months ago when I first tried hello and I really do not want to [...]

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