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Bernard Cornwell, "Agincourt" and more... I'm someone who reads mostly non fiction history. However, the past few months I have been on enforced rest (just recently have been able to sit up at the PC) and not having a lot of focus or attention span I have been plowing through a pretty big pile...

"fortdearborn1", Marc ***nes of Fort Dearborn Collectibles, will stop by.

fortdearborn1 a/k/a Marc ***nes of Fort Dearborn Collectibles is going to attend.

I was also a winner! Mine went, "Have you noticed that those British referees always call disputes in favour of the Mohawks?" I used the British spelling of "favor" to reinforce the punchline. I won a set of the Merry Grenadiers. Great choice in that it was a set I didn't own, and one I...

I have sold at every OTS since the first. I will be there Th -Sunday. I am truly one of the lucky ones since the show is only a 45 minute drive (non rush hour) from my house. Its always hard at the show to carve out time to show off the collection, but this year I'm highly motivated to do so. I...

Also regarding a poster posted by Damian: The poster --No Pasaran - besides depicting the motto of the Republican defenders of Madrid, coined by La Pasionaria, the poster also depicts a barricade erected in the streets of Madrid at which the "common people of Spain" rose up against the Fascist...

I also visited Jarama back in 1970 when I visited a number of SCW batlefields including the Ebro, and other points of interest such as the bridge at Ronda. I have a modest collection of uniforms and headgear. I have a partially handmade Republican Army Adrienne helmet (the telltale marks from a...

I have two other fascinations. Pontiac's War against the British and its penultimate battle, Bushy Run cries out for attention from John. Let me add my name to the host beseeching John to produce a Bushy Run line (In the meantime I have my own diorama, or "set-up," of Bushy Run using John's...

I don't know if an opinion from an infrequent contributor is of any value, but I, for one, am very excited by John's newest -- and totally unexpected -- foray into the Spanish Civil War (SCW)which I have been studying and collecting since I was a kid. Ironically, for me, John has produced...

I really like the pictures of the 28 mm figures and settings! I enjoy pics of dioramas and set-ups; and these pics depict one of my favortie periods too. So, these pics hit a home run with me. What is the backstory on them? How long did it take to create the dioramas and paint the figures? Do...

How could you make a guy who is "larger than life" into a little 28mm figure?

Looking good!

Great pics! Always a treat to see your art

Entered for the first time and I'm a winner. Must be Beginner's Luck. My entry was about the British refs being pro-Mohawk. I didn't even know there were prizes! I am laid up again, just had some surgery. First opportunity to check out Treefrog in months, and am enjoying catching up. Last...

The Tuareg (same word singular or plural, by the way) was the only tribe that truly inhabited the middle reaches of the Sahara, known as the "Great Erg" and as such, during the period of French exploration and eventual colonization of the Sahara the Tuareg fiercly opposed them. The worst defeats...

Immediately before then the Battle of La Belle Famille the British hastily constructed a "breastwork" of logs laid in a horizontal fashion, stacked one upon the other. Constructed just within a tree line it intercepted the old Indian trail which led to Fort Niagara from the southwest. A French...

"Those are Regulars, By God!" is one of the great quotes from US military history. It certainly was worth memorializing by JJ in releasing the 1812 line. Mike is right in posting that 1812 was America's part of the Napoleonic Wars. With toy soldiers its much easier to reproduce, too. In Europe...

Welcome, Blake. I, too, am fairly new to the forum; only have had time to participate in the past few weeks myself. I have intermingled BOQ with BOM figures in my "set-ups." I keep them separated by regiments, but the other posters are correct that the BOM sets are now prohibitively priced if...

There is a very famous incident of a White Indian's face being painted totally black from Chicago's frontier history. William Wells was a "White Indian" adopted by the Miami in the perriod of early Kentucky's settlement. Wells, known as Black Snake, fought with the confederacy of tribes under...