Tewkesbury Medieval Festival

Sue and I have just returned form a fantastic day out at the Tewkesbury Medieval Festival. The weather was glorious but a bit too hot for spending more than a couple of hours browsing the displays.

Tony

Aircraft images

 Mainly RAF Cosford but we also visited the Swansea Airshow earlier this week.

Tony

Miniature Wargames issue 507 - Scatter Terrain

The latest issue of Miniature Wargames (issue 507 - July 2025) features not one but two pieces of Sci-Fi inspired and scratch built terrain for the wargame table.

The first is a Hellboy fist statue modelled from a ceramic moneybox that was purchased from a local charity shop and mounted on to a foam plinth and laminate flooring base. The second is a group of three force field generators that uses scrap pieces from Christmas tree packaging and some fruit juice bottles. For more information see this link or pick up the magazine from your local W H Smiths or gaming store.

I have included these additional images to show the pieces in greater detail.

Tony

Fleet Air Arm Museum Yeovil

Sue and I have just returned home after a week long visit to Cornwall and Devon. On the way down I stopped off at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovil and took these photos.

The highlight for me was the new Hall 3 which is decorated to show the below decks of an operational aircraft carrier.

Tony 

Bargain of the year (updated)

Please ignore my post from earlier this week.....

On Friday I picked up this classic, a book I have been searching for for some time and this one is in near perfect condition (unlike some I have seen) bought from a charity book clearance outlet in Malvern, Worcestershire. And the reason I'm moving this to the top of my list of  'bargains of  the year 2025' is because they were only asking 75p.

Yes just 75p. I was so embarrassed that I gave £3.00 which was all the loose change I had with me.

For anyone interested in aircraft of the Great War this is a must-have and now at long last I have my own copy - a book I will cherish.

Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War 1, originally published in 1919, then 1990 and again reprinted in 1992. A huge studio edition with just a small tear to the dust cover and a couple of pricing stickers on the rear. A great charity shop find, not quite my best ever, but close.

Tony