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"The Water Horse" and "Hope and Glory" come to mind.

Several years ago, while watching the battle between Captain Blood's ship & the two French ships, I noticed that the producers spliced in several clips from a film on Trafalgar. Rather well done, too. Does anyone know where these clips came from? Silent or sound? Title please? They're not from...

Hard times make you become more selective, but I doubt if they ever kill the true collector. Present economic circumstances have left me dead in the water as far as toy/model soldier purchases are concerned, but I also know that things will improve before long. I've been in these situations...

I seriously doubt how much (if any) coverage will be given in the U.S. to the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War. Myself a Vietnam-Era vet, I still prefer to call November 11th Armistice Day, rather than Veterans' Day, as I feel that the 11th should stand on its own. My maternal...

Thanks for the latest JJD news. I am especially interested in the Quebec series news, though the whaleboat & Jacobite items tug at me, also.:):):D

Your artistry is definitely worth the kudos & the price. Looking forward, too, to any winter scenes that you may produce. I'm always on the lookout for scenes that can be used to create a proper Napoleonic Retreat from Moscow feature.:):):D

My wife & I have lived in, or worked around, so many haunted places that we have just maintained open minds about the supernatural. We've never found ghosts to appear or perform on cue, which is why we scoff at TV programs that hunt them for our entertainment. If our ghosts make themselves known...

A friend of ours, who is a Marine vet, who served in the Pacific in WWII, went to Gettysburg a few years ago to tour the battlefield. He met some Confederate re-enactors and, while shooting the breeze with them, was told by one that, after hours, he (the re-enactor) decided to make the same trek...

I've been re-reading MONTCALM AND WOLFE, by Francis Parkman,CENTURY OF CONFLICT, by Joseph Lister Rutledge, and WILDERNESS EMPIRE, by Allen Eckert. Of course, there's always time for brief forays into other time periods as well, Ancient Egypt & French Rev./Napoleonic Eras among them.:p:D;):)

My FIW wish list would include: (1) More personalities, such as Amherst & Montcalm's able subordinates. (2) Greater French regimental representation. (3) Civilians at the St. Louis Gate as Montcalm is being led back through it. (4) The St. Louis Gate as it appeared then, rather than what we...

I guess that you have to start somewhere; nice thought to begin a new line with a defeat & then roll things back to better times for the Jacobites. You brought up Prestonpans, but don't forget Falkirk. Old Fort Oswego, in NYS, did some Jacobite re-enactments this past summer. I hope that they do...

We(e) Scots almost always have some good animation.:D:D:p:cool:

Thanks for the photos & even greater thanks to JJD for the latest models. But (groan), the finances are already quite a bit thin and I fear that Culloden will make them thinner. JJD's Jacobite Rebellion is nearer & dearer to me than for most, as I had ancestors who fought on both sides of that...

The model for the pharaoh's head could be a number of rulers from the 18th through the 21st Dynasties.Tilt it on its side, and you have the model for Shelley's "Ozymandias (a.k.a. Ramesses the Great)," which you can see if you do a search for the Ramesseum. Throw a little sand on it and voila...

Hi, Trooper, The author of the chapter on Gettysburg is described in the book as "an American historian and editor of THE FUSILIER, a journal for war-gamers and collectors of military miniatures. " Hope this helps.

Two items of note to shore up Trooper's arguments: In Brigadier Young's book, THE WAR GAME, the chapter dealing with Gettysburg states, "Perhaps only the timely appearance of Buford's cavalrymen on the left saved the 1st Corps from the fate of the 11th. Buford bluffed a charge, and the nearest...

I hope that it will be Fort Carillon/Ticonderoga. I have the fort; now, I just need to cough up the cash for the soldats. More figures for Quebec would help, too. Louisbourg could also prove to be interesting. Many things to wonder about 'til the actual unveiling. I do believe that FIW...

:D Bienvenue and don't worry about this so-called addiction. In time, it will all seem like a dream; "too flattering sweet to be substantial." At least, 'til the funds run out! No, think of it as an art collector thinks of art..... as an investment. Or, pit your particular "addiction" against...

But you have to admit that it's a magnificent obsession!

:D:) The best Home Security system that my wife & I currently have is, as they say on TV, "not for sale in any store." Forget the guns, the dogs, the alarm systems; we have four ghosts. Oh, we have the other above-mentioned items, but they pale in comparison with the (largely undeserved)...