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As Armistead and his Virginians advanced toward the copse of trees he saw to his right that Kemper's brigade had broken. Pettigrew's men were still coming up on his left-not many -not enough. An experienced infantry officer Armistead instinctively knew-it's impossible now, all those dead boys...

Brad Have to agree with the guys on the Bluray format as watching Lawrence in Arabia on BR compared to all the other formats is literally an event. When this movie was released on BR awhile back I was tasked by Stack magazine to write an article on the background to the making of the movie and...

Thanks for your comments guys Hi Mark The base of the dirt road is a mid-muddy brown rough textured 3' X 2' rubber mat that I found in a railway hobby shop. I would assume it makes a fine railroad base to lay tracks for model railway hobbyists.To that I added a trial and error mix of JG...

June 29th 1863-Cashtown, Pennsylvania. The residents of Cashtown-about 8 miles from Gettysburg-probably thought the whole Rebel army had arrived in their town when Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill's Third Corps suddenly descended on them This was the second time in less than a year that Rebel soldiers...

Thanks guys for the greetings and Buster not so much of the "tedious" ^&grin Bob

Caine and Larry made another movie together about a dozen years after this one titled The Jigsaw Man Caine played a cold war double agent named Phil Kimberly (which I believe was a play on the name of the notorious Kim Philby the Russian spy based in MI6). Could have been a much better movie if...

Chris Although some will say I'm "slightly biased" toward collecting ACW figures your explicit shots on this thread gets my vote as one of the best historical dioramas I have seen in a long- long time. I have always believed that the Confederacy lost the war in the West and must admit-to my...

An unusual incident occurred during Grant's Overland Campaign in early May 1864. A scouting party of Sheridan's, Federal Cavalry unexpectedly stumbled upon a small troop of Stuart's, Confederate Cavalry watering their horses. Guns were drawn, cocked and aimed. No doubt, startled at the sudden...

No chance Sammy -posters of barbed comments without smilies attached, rarely if ever, make themselves known to others face to face.

Buster Apart from James being fat, badly dressed and middle aged-his sad look on this occasion was primarily because of the following:- Just prior to all of us taking a gentle stroll (remember, as has been noted by one of the forum members, none of us can walk fast these days as the majority...

Here you go Buster the "usual bunch of badly dressed, overweight, slightly sad looking, middle-aged men"-Eazy/Obee/UKReb/Wraith/UKBOD who found it all too much for them and retired from the show to partake of some life saving liquid refreshment. Bob

The Emmitsburg Road: Part II. Pickett's men pushed forward across the first fence that straddled the road and moved toward the second obstacle. As the men scrambled to hurl themselves over the second fence the Yankee batteries switched their loads to canister. Men were climbing to the...

A fine little vignette you've got there Brad-as discussed many times here on the forum you just cannot go wrong with those FL ACW figures Bob

Superb depiction Chris and I note you have finally got those bases spectacularly hidden-Fine work with a great looking backdrop too. Bob

John Exit the Business Design Centre and walk straight ahead to the main drag-Upper Street. Turn sharp right and the Steam Passage Tavern is about 20 yards along the drag to your right.-Saloon Bar usually about 1230hrs A traditional London pub-good beer and darn fine tucker. I'll catch you...

Al I should post this on a book thread but as you raised an interesting issue on The Great Escape I'll keep it rolling here. Have you read Human Game by Simon Read? It's a recent publication that tells the gripping story of hunting down the Great Escape murderers. If you haven't I thoroughly...

Wayne I've got to say you somehow manage to execute and present all of your WWI diorama scenes into a fine art form. They remind me of old London Illustrated photographs. Well done sir great work! Bob

Nice work Jeff-love your set-up of the figures. However, watch out that gun crew doesn't hole your Nile boat^&grin Am I going to see you at the London show next month? Bob

The Password is Courage (1962) starring Dirk Bogarde as Sgt Major Charles Coward tells the amazing story of this real life character and for the very first time in a British P.O.W. film the hero actually comes from the "other ranks". This indefatigable British NCO who was captured at Dunkirk...

George Good to see your troops taking to the field again and what a great set of figures they are too Bob