31 High Street, Droitwich

31 High Street, Droitwich, Worcestershire

These are some inspirational images of 31 High Street or 'Stephens', Droitwich Spa - a building restoration that is truly spectacular. You can find additional details (and images) by following this Blog.

I look forward to the building being opened to the public when I can get some additional images.

Tony

My latest charity shop find

I picked this book up at The Severn Valley Railway charity shop at Bewdley Railway Station for just £1.00. The series of guides by Wild Swan is well known to me but I was not familiar with this particular publication even though it was first published in 1983!

I look forward to reading through the techniques over the next couple of days.

Architectural Modelling in 4mm scale by Dave Rowe
Published by Wild Swan Publications Ltd in 1983
70 pages with lots of black and white images and illustrations
List price £3.95
ISBN - 0 906867 12 6

Tony

Wargames Terrain & Buildings - The Napoleonic Wars by Tony Harwood

Wargames Terrain & Buildings - The Napoleonic Wars written by me is available to order from Pen & Sword. For full details see this link.

Wargames Terrain & Buildings - The Napoleonic Wars by Tony Harwood
Published by Pen & Sword
List price £14.99/$24.95 
160 pages with nine complete start-to-finish modelling and painting projects (see contents below)
246 mm x 171 mm
Illustrated throughout with full colour images
ISBN 9781526716392

PLEASE NOTE - the book is not available from me but through Pen & Sword (or via other book sellers).

See these reviews;
A Question of Scale which can be found via this link.
Wargames News and Terrain see this link.
Wargames and Railroads - for more information see this link.
Robin Buckland's Military Model Scene see this link.
The Old Barbed Wire Blog see this link.
Wargames Illustrated - a full review can be found here.
Plus a You Tube version can be found here.
Wargames Illustrated (a second review) - see this link.
Miniature Wargaming see this Blog entry - link.
Iron Mammoth' Studio - a more thoughtful review can be found here.
The Chauvinistic Blog - see the full review here.
This time a French Language Blog Review from Waterloo Miniature See this link.
Colonel Mustard Blog see this link.
Vintage-Airfix - see this review.
A Spanish language review from Miniaturas JM - see this link
The Miniatures Page - see this link
Meeples and Miniatures Podcast - see this link
Vintage Airfix - a short review but worthwhile including, see this link
ARRSE (Army Rumour Service) - an interesting review suggesting that the techniques in the book would be appropriate for 'other scales'. For full details see this link.

Tony

Wargames Terrain Magazine?

I saw this link while browsing the Internet and was wondering if anyone knew any more about this project.

Tony

Wargames Terrain & Buildings - The Napoleonic Wars another review

Another review of Wargames Terrain & Buildings - The Napoleonic Wars written by me. This time a book review written by Kris of Wargames and Railroads. For more details see this post.

For details of how to order a copy from Pen & Sword, please see this link.

Earlier reviews can be found here and here.

Thank you.

Tony

Satyr for 40mm Greek project - part six

This latest image shows the C. P. Models 28mm Satyr alongside a Spartan Miniatures 40mm figure. I had always thought of Pan as a smaller character almost child-like and am pleased with the comparison.

This stalled project could do with some additional work!

Tony

Harvington Hall, Kidderminster, Worcestershire

Sue and I visited Harvington Hall, near Kidderminster and had a guided tour of this interesting moated manor house.

It was the first time we had taken this trip and we thoroughly enjoyed the house and its story particularly the numerous hidden Priest Holes. Here are some images taken on the day. For more information, please see this link.

Tony