The Battle of Camperdown - Derek Gardner. Left to Right, CIRCE 28-GUNS, POWERFUL 74-GUNS, BEDFORD 74-GUNS, Hercules 64-guns, TRIUMPH 74-GUNS, BELLIQUEUX 64-GUNS, ARDENT 64-GUNS, De Vries 68-gu...
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The last post in this series concluded Carolyn and my stay in Queensland before our boarding a flight from Cairns to our next destination, Darwin the capital city of the Northern Territory, ...
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An important stage in my Camperdown Project Build started last October 2023 was reached this week and the plan to bring the battle to the table in glorious 1:700 scale moved a little closer. ...
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It was back in late January 2023 that Carolyn and I found ourselves on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, in the final leg of our four month odyssey across the Pacific, that...
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Lots of activity in JJ's Shipyard this last couple of weeks as I worked to complete the Batavian battle line and the last five ships needed before moving on to the next stage of the Camperdow...
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It was back in April last year that I presented a project that I had been working on and something that had been an idea long in the gestation period, principally waiting for a collection of ...
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Last weekend I took the Camperdown collection to the Devon Wargames Group's first March meeting to run The Leeward Division Scenario, I played last month at Chez JJ with Mike and Jack using F...
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It was two months ago since I last reported on progress with the Camperdown collection, and I have to admit that work in JJ's Shipyard was sporadic after Christmas with time having to be made...
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Funchal Morning Sun by Edward Poynter. Last week, Carolyn and I caught a plane from Bristol to fly south to the beautiful Portuguese island or more precisely, archipelago of Madeira, out in t...
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This is Part Two of a two part post looking at the collection of the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum that I visited on the ninth leg of our Australia trip, after arriving a Cairns in la...
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It has been with much anticipation that I looked forward to posting this AAR on a new set of rules for me, namely Far Distant Ships (FDS) written by David Manley, as part of my New Year Proje...
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'Captain Bligh goes to War', HMS Director leads the attack of the Leeward Division at Camperdown - Geoff Hunt With a new year well underway I have seemingly entered a rather creative st...
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So over New Year I was thinking, what would be a great topic for the first post in 2024 and with the current series of posts covering the little expedition down-under, this time last year hav...
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The last twenty months have been a bit of a rollercoaster in terms of life experiences, that includes my hobby time, but that has seen the normal routine of producing JJ's Wargames joining in...
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Well another year is fast coming to a close and I write this Christmas greeting to all my readers with somewhat mixed feelings, conscious of the time of year when we celebrate hope and goodw...
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It was back in September, when this project got started proper, after a few proof of concept builds on a few ships of the Dutch fleet, including the all important fourth-rate model released b...
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As the Festive Season is well underway and the decorations are going up in readiness for the big day, when families gather together and celebrate, you will find wargamers also gathering to ce...
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Battle of Camperdown - Oliver Hurst https://www.oliverhurst.com/product-page/the-battle-of-camperdown The Leeward Division in the thick of it at Camperdown with Vice-admiral Sir Richard Onslo...
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Having enjoyed a wonderful few days on Hamilton Island, see link below, we were back onboard a plane heading south to Brisbane to catch a connecting flight to travel further north into Queensl...
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My recent reading has included this interesting title, 'The Frontier Sea' written by Dave Watson (DW) looking at the warfare in and around the Adriatic Sea that formed a very specific theat...
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Last weekend Steve M and myself made the drive up the A303 to attend Warfare 2023 hosted by the Wargames Association of Reading, and a show Steve and I have gone to over several years previou...
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The Battle of Camperdown - Derek Gardner The Leeward Division carried the red ensign of Vice Admiral Richard Onslow led into action by his flagship HMS Monarch 74-guns. Work has progressed wi...
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As regular readers of this blog will know, me and my old pal Mr Steve are very prone to taking a day or two, jumping in the cars and trekking off into the Great British Outdoors to explore th...
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This weekend Carolyn and I'm off up to London to stay with friends for a long weekend and to take in a West End musical 'Moulin Rouge' followed by a bit of supper in town, so this weekend's ...
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'Captain Bligh goes to War', HMS Director leads the attack of the Leeward Division at Camperdown - Geoff Hunt Following on from Part One, see link below, of this 'Project Build' series of pos...
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