Life in Miniature

I joined the world of metal miniatures in 1983, little realising it was a boom time, and I`d missed it... 30 years later, and still no wiser, this is my story.

Saturday, 16 May 2015

Challenger and IT Terrain.

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Odd how things coalesced, and one day can define years to come... Occasionally in this Life in Miniature, I 'be been around successf...
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Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Still clearing up '83

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Ok, this blog update is dedicated to Kevin Davies (no not that one), Shaun Watson, Steve Clark and the two or three Frothers that commented,...
Saturday, 6 September 2014

Series 2 games - Micro Warfare

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Ok, gone off the boil recently, work gets in the way of writing... so some '83 stuff to catch up on, there really was a lot going off in...
Monday, 9 June 2014

Series 1 games

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I think Bob's first love was for board games, even into the 80's he would argue that Avalon Hill's Stalingrad was the best game ...
Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Tabletop Games

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Ok, well the previous posts clears the Old School games out of the way, and I can get into the meat of the next stage of this blog. Table...
Thursday, 10 April 2014

Combat 3000

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As much as I was fighting shy the previous post then this one is a much more cherished task. Of all the games that I played before leaving ...
Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Middle Earth

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Ok, so then you look up and a month has flown by and I've not updated the blog... and... Well to tell the truth I've been fighti...
Wednesday, 22 January 2014

D&D the game that changed the world

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Well if this blog is going to be about Games and Gaming then we might as well start with the biggy, the daddy of all modern fantasy games...
Tuesday, 24 December 2013

TTG Christmas Party!

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Yer yer, I know promised you more Old School ramblings about the Fantasy and Sci-fi games I played in school, but the   Christmas rush her...
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Airfix

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Well I was going to blog about a couple of my favourite games today, but I shall fly in the face for the current vogue for Old School Gaming...
Wednesday, 27 November 2013

A bit of a catch up...

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Ok Folks, sorry if the last three or four posts have been a bit of a hatchet-job, I didn't really intent for it to be read that way. I...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013

A gamble?

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Right-o, I didn't mean this to turn into a micro analysis of Citadel miniatures, but what Bryan did with the production of the minia...
Friday, 15 November 2013

...and rise...

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Citadel miniatures in 1983, must have been a fabulous place to be. After the changes in personal at the top of Citadel/GW in the previou...
Tuesday, 12 November 2013

The Rise...

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It's hard to look back now at Citadel Miniatures and not see them as the all conquering behemoth of the miniature gaming world they were...
Friday, 8 November 2013

The Severed Alliance

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(80's joke in the title...) So it came as a bit of a shock to get to work on the 8th of November 1983, and find Bob in a terrible moo...
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