by madguru | Apr 2, 2013 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Camerone, Maximillian Intervention
Here are some pics of the remaining CAMERONE DAY pieces built by Chris The Model Maker…First up is the abandoned and out of use DAM, built to distribute water brought from the nearby river via a small manmade canal for use irrigating surrounding farmland and as...
by madguru | Apr 1, 2013 | Camerone, Fellow Gamers, Maximillian Intervention
It’s been a packed couple of weeks here at the “Camerone Day” household. My middle child had her Bat Mitzvah — the big coming-of-age event in the life of a Jewish child — two Saturdays ago. Like her older brother before her,...
by madguru | Feb 12, 2013 | Camerone, Maximillian Intervention
Not long after putting the pics of the abandoned dam model up on this blog, I ran across a pic of a real life version that was very close, though somewhat different, in design, which in this case appears to date back to about the turn of the 20th Century. I had...
by madguru | Feb 3, 2013 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Camerone, Maximillian Intervention
There’s a lot of excitement here at my place — and it’s not because of the Superbowl later today, since as a Giants & Patriots fan, with a soft spot for the Green Bay Packers, as well as the Chargers — who I occasionally drive 2.5 hours...
by madguru | Jan 15, 2013 | Books, Camerone, Maximillian Intervention
Just found this online…It’s a Google eBook of CAMERONE – The French Foreign Legion’s Greatest Battle, by James W. Ryan, a thin hardcover (110 pages, including index) published in 1996.The entire book is not uploaded, as I believe it is...
by madguru | Jan 15, 2013 | Books, Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Camerone, Maximillian Intervention
Link to the Project Gutenberg eBook of: IN INDIAN MEXICO, A Narratibe Of Travel And Labor, by Frederick Starr…http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16183/16183-h/16183-h.htmHere’s a selection of some photos from the book, which I will use as reference for the...
