by madguru | Dec 24, 2014 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Flags, History
A couple of weeks ago while Googling for images of 19th Century Afghan bridges (well, everyone has their own idea of fun!) I stumbled across a somewhat amazing discovery: an October 2001 article from Boston Univesity’s “Bridge” newspaper, about a...
by madguru | Dec 11, 2014 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Camerone, Maximillian Intervention, Terrain Building
Well I’m not done with my Charasiab lay-out just yet, but… I’m happy to report I am a bit closer to it!Finished up gluing down and painting the ground-cover on the Kabul River terrain board. Before moving on to paint the river itself to match...
by madguru | Nov 18, 2014 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Rivers, Terrain Building
Many of you will be familiar with the Kipling poem “Ford o’ Kabul River”. I’ve been a Kipling fan since I was a boy, so despite the fact that the tragic river-crossing which befell the 10th Hussars on March 31, 1879, cost the lives of 19...
by madguru | May 5, 2014 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Battle Reports
A friend of mine was kind and thoughtful enough to sent me this photo, which kind of blew my mind, as it was taken in 1984, as opposed to 1919 or even 1897 and then tinted with color…I wrote back to thank my friend and ask where the photo came from, and it was...
by madguru | Apr 22, 2014 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Terrain Building
This past weekend my 14 year-old daughter surprised me by asking to set the wargames table up with a large Medieval battle, for her to shoot video of for a class project. The table was already covered with my not-quite-finished Charasiab layout, with various...
by madguru | Mar 6, 2014 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, British Army, Fellow Gamers, Other, Uniforms
Long-time readers of this humble blog may recall the first time I presented the Second Afghan War-related 1/6th scale work of artist and master model-maker Tony Barton — famous in 15mm-18mm Napoleonic circles as the sculptor behind the highly-regarded AB Figures...
