Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Here’s a collection of color photos from around the world taken by French banker Albert Khan as he toured the world—in 1909!
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Monday, January 02, 2012
Shot-by-shot comparison of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” vs. scenes from 30 different adventure films made between 1919-1973.
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Vintage Wargaming has some scans of instructions for 1910 era naval landing parties. It’s a nice look at the world back then—and gave me some interesting ideas for games.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Here are a series of color photos of Edwardian England. Nice for period color references.
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Fans of Russian history may find this novel interesting: The White Terror and the Red: A Novel of Revolutionary Russia It dates to 1905 and is free because it’s out of copyright.
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011
If you’re doing period gaming, you may be interested in this set of color photographs of New York in the 1940s.
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Friday, March 18, 2011
For the Pulp Gamers, here’s a page with color photos of Egypt in the 1920s. Chaos In Cairo anyone?
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Friday, March 04, 2011
For the Pulp Adventure fans, here are some color photos of Shackleton’s ill-fated 1915 Antarctic expedition.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
For uniform historians, here are a couple of pdf scans of the official 1922 US Marine Uniform Regulations and the 1905 US Naval Uniform Regulations.
Thanks to F.H. for the tip.
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Tuesday, April 06, 2010
There’s plenty of pulp goodness in The Story of the Zeppelin, a pdf of a 1922 edition of a book on the airships. Best of all are the profuse illustrations.
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Poll #3:
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Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
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