I’ve managed to get around to updating and labelling the How-To Guides. They are in the now migrated Gallery here.
The guides are:
How-To Paint 1/3000th Scale Ships
How-To Make A Sea Surface
How-To Make Aircraft Stands For 1/300th Aircraft
Or go to http://thomo.coldie.net/gallery/ to access the gallery directly.
One day I’ll get around to expanding these. Feel free to [...]
By now most of the readers of my blog know that I have a particularly soft spot for Mongolia, the Land of the Endless Blue Sky. Most of you have realised as well that I love ships … all of them … big buggers, small ones, sailing, steam, oar-powered, you name it. Then there is [...]
I have been madly updating the gallery over the past few days with Mark I versions in place for:
Mongolian Landscapes
Places Visited
I have also uploaded all the museum photos from the old gallery. These are covering the Choson, Three Kingdom and Koryo Periods of Korean History as well as the Thai Airforce Museum. Labelling (captions) are [...]
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 [...]
There was a book review recently in the Korea Times about a couple of authors who had published recently. The review was titled Masters Return With Bitter History and covered a couple of areas of Korean History.
What particularly interested me was a photo from World War II that served as an inspiration for Jo [...]
Way back in the past - around 1999 in fact, I questioned myself about the ethics of wargaming. Every few years I ponder the same the question. I guess my morality gene lays dormant for three or four years then the application of a couple of Heinekens an a long boring flight somewhere causes the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have been working and travelling overseas for over 20 years now. IT has been a great field to work and travel in. Currently I am sitting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. My interests include History (especially Military History) and Naval History. My Hobby is wargaming.
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