Pinkhus Karlinsky - boatman for the Tsar

This picture shows the man himself (Pinkhus Karlinsky) in glorious colorized detail. This is from a webpage with LOADS of pictures from Tsarist Russia. See more about Pinkhus at the Transportation page of the website. He served as chief of the floodgate on his part of the Volga-Baltic canal for 66 years.

The website is from the Library of Congress, and is called The Empire that was Russia

For instance, in this picture of Austro-Hungarian Prisoners, from the early years of the Great War, there is in the left hand corner an excellent image of an Imperial soldier, in the white gimnasterka (tunic), dark green trousers, and white cap.

Not that I'm thinking of Russian troops. Not for the Russo-Japanese war, nor for the Russian Civil War. Nope, not at all.

Honest, comrade.

Tags: wargaming

All the kings men - British!

All the Kings Men - a great 54mm website. I know, this has absolutely nothing at all to do with any of my current (or even planned) projects, but dang - they sure do look nice. Just click on the pic.

Tags: wargaming, toy soldiers

Colonial Encounter on the Frontier is an article on the website Khyber.org that is a very nice description of the sorts of military skirmishes and encounters that took place on the Northwest Frontier. Play up, Lads!

This leads me to the announcement that I will be developing some wargaming scenarios for submission to magazines. Any ideas or character names or place names etc will be welcomed.

ADDENDA - Also on the Khyber.org website, I found an absolutely marvelous article about Peshawar. See here a fantastic image (prepared in 1985 by an American, Richard Meinke, which is a map of the old city. A slight modification of this map (remove the radio station symbol, change the names of the High Schools to Government Schools, and rename the cinema to a theater - and the map would serve nicely for a gaming map for late 19th, early 20th century gaming. Very nicely. Which gives me a couple of game ideas. Maybe more than a couple....

SECOND ADDENDA - See the historical article section of this website. There are great articles on the Gandomak Treaty, the Treaty with Ameer Dost Mohammad Khan, the Yusafzai state in the Swat Valley, and the Frontier Corps, including the Khyber Rifles and the Chitral Scouts.

Tags: wargaming

Vive L'Empereur

Videos of L'Empereur.

Be sure to check out the link to his MySpace page, as well.

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July in Gaming

1. Played a number of boardgames
2. Held a game-day at home, with a number of non-gamer attendees, as well as some die-hards from ODMS
3. Worked on a Russian Civil War variant for Memoir 44 (tchankas anyone?)
4. Mounted 15mm Dervish swordsman (Old Glory, 100 figures)
5. Continued to paint a unit of 28mm British Colonial Cavalry (Eureka, 12 figures) for Jon Krigbaum
6. Attended Historicon
• Played boardgames (BattleLore, Alhambra Dice Game, Mystery Rummy, Ticket to Ride, Amazonas)
• Entered Iron Paintbrush speed painting contest with Odin B and Chris B (from ODMS)
7. Continued to paint 15mm Ruso-Japanese war Russian Infantry (Old Glory, 96 figures)
8. Watched Master and Commander, and Gladiator
9. Purchased copies of "Field of Glory" and "Shako II"
10. Purchased Osprey books on Russo-Japanese War, and Russian Civil War Whites
11. Order Russian Civil War bolshevik figures (15mm, Peter Pig) through Cotton Jim

Tags: wargaming

underground3k Military Vehicle Database

Underground3k is a website dedicated to military hobbyists. It has a great series of databases about the worlds military vehicles, with each entry accompanied by many photos, and a military article archive, and a military game arcade.

Check it out.

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Forgotten Samurai Rules

Two sets I missed the first time around -

15mm Samurai Rules - based on Rules according to Ral
Daimyo - on a good web page dedicated to Samurai wargaming

First Half of this article . . .


Tags: miniatures, wargaming, samurai