This blog will be a chronicle of my wargaming activity in 2008. But first a look back to where it began for so many of us from my generation. 1966, a brand new copy of Don Featherstone's 'War Games' and a couple of boxes of Airfix. The dining room table for an hour or better still a patch of lino on the bedroom floor.
The photo is of Don Featherstone's Action in the Plattville Valley. I bought the original print from him some ten years ago. I also have the rubber buildings and SAE figures (well Spencer Smith actually) though it took me forty years to finally get them. I am now able to fight this battle again and I am free to start a new project for the New Year.
Yes!! That picture was the one that I rememebred all those years ago, and which prompted me to start my ACW project this year.... many thanks for sharing.... :o))
ReplyDeleteJohn,
ReplyDeleteBest wishes for your project and for 2008.
I'd love to see you re-stage the Platteville fight with DF's ACW figures in closer shots than he supplied.
George
Thank you George,
ReplyDeleteI am sorry I put that rather clumsily. I have identical figures and buildings, but not alas the ones owned by Don himself. I imagine he sold those on for a tidy sum many years ago.
Interestingly when I visited him several years ago he was still playing ACW but with Airfix plastic armies.
Steve,
thanks, its still an incredibly evocative image isn't it.
John
John
ReplyDeleteI am impressed, but why the suite?
I would of thought a cardigan, slippers and flagon of finest ale (Green King Abbot is think?) would be more fitting.
I do agree the Country has gone to the dogs (or cats etc.). I think that old Stalinist Russia would be more freedom than we have now!!!!