Old Photos

 Here are the remaining old photographs re-discovered by my better half. They show old armies that I no longer have, 20mm WW II, 20mm Napoleonic, 25mm English Civil War, 20mm ACW and part of my large collection of WW I aircraft, along with a couple of photographs of  54mm ACW figures that I still have and two photographs showing the late Peter Guilder's Waterloo set-up.

All these photgraphsdate from sometime in the earl 1970s.

ThePhotograph on the right shows a random Napoleonic game, using mostly Airfux figures - even back then I used underscaled buildings!

Here's the rest of the photographs:

Another shot of the battle above

An unpainted 20mm Minifig figure of Lord Picton is the only survivour of my Napoleonics that I have.

End of game shot of a WW II battle, some trres and the house in the bottom right are the only survivours of this collection.

Confederates attacking a Union held barn (I still have everything in this picture)

Three of my Jasta 6 aircraft

In the above photograph's reverse are listed, left to right, all the names of the pilots just visible. Our group had just about every available WW I aircraft produce by both Airfix and Revell.

An Airfix garage cobverted for use by my Jasta 6. 

Part of my very large 20mm ACW collection (all Airfix) - all long gone

My ECW Royalist army lined up for an Edgehill refight

Parliamentarians opposing the King at Edgehill (all Minifigs)

Parliamentarians attacking Royalist in the above battle...

...and the Royalist's reply - you can tell they're royalists- they have feathers, not lobster pots!

A demo game for a local church (Bonus colour photo - Ed.)

Proof my figures were painted, even back then.

Finally, one from one of the few wargames shows I was able to attend, at Hull, featured the huge Waterloo collection of the late, great Peter Guilder. I doubt I ever seen anything in all my years that has been so inspiring and the man himself was equally so.

The building is La Haye Saint

The mass of French cavalry was very impressive.

Thats it then, proof that I was a crap photographer back then too. All the photos were taken on my polaroid camera, which at the time was a very expensive undertaking and the colour photographs cost me more than half a week's wages (for eight), hence they're a rarity  for me.

That's it then for another week, next week I'll be on holiday in the far west (Cumbria), so may not get a blog report out, but I will endeavour to do so.

Thanks for taking the time to visit, hopefully there was something of interest in yet another trip down my pernsonal lane of nostalgia and, as always, your comments are welcomed and truly appreciated.