Completed 28mm Viet Cong infantry company, 28SEP17

Here are photos of a completed 28mm Viet Cong infantry company, 28SEP17:

                                          Completed 28mm Viet Cong infantry company.

                                          Completed 28mm Viet Cong infantry platoon #1.

                                          Completed 28mm Viet Cong infantry platoon #2.
                                         

                                          Completed 28mm Viet Cong infantry platoon #3.

                                          Completed 28mm Viet Cong infantry NCO.

Late September 2017 reading....

Here is what I've read so far this week:

1)  The Romanovs:  1613-1918.  Reading more about Peter the Great and his campaigns in Sweden.  Interesting tyrant.  Brought Russia into the modern era screaming and kicking.  Loved his wife, boozes, and mistresses...

2)  The Strange Affair of Steel Spring Jack by Mark Hodden.  More steampunk London involving a screw-up time traveling historian from the future.  LOL....

3)  The Legend of Drizzt:  Volume One by R.A. Salvatore.  More reading about Drizzt's origins and what life was like for a non-evil Drow elf....
 

Completed 28mm Vietnamese Villagers and 28mm VIet Cong Infantry platoon number, 25SEP17

                                           28mm Vietnamese Villagers with ox cart.

                                          First 28mm Viet Cong infantry platoon.

Mid-September 2017 reading: part II

Here's what I've barely been able to read this week:

1)  The Romanovs.  More about the doings of Peter the Great.

That's it.  I haven't managed my reading time at all this week.  Too much sports, ugh.
Blake

Mid September 2017 reading....

Here's what I've been reading this week:

1)  The Romanovs.  Started 800 page biography on the dynasty.  Looks like a long book.

2)  Finished Queen Victoria's Bomb.  Pre-steampunk novel about the development of an atomic bomb for Queen Victoria during the 19th century.  They tested the thing in India....

3)  Started The Strange Affair of Steel Heeled Jack by Holden.  Another steampunk alternative history novel.

4)  Started Street Without Joy by Bernard Fall.  It's about the French debacle in Indochina.

5)  Continued reading The Legend of Drizzt:  Volume 1 by R.A. Salvatore....

WIP, 30mm GW Khorne Lord of Skulls, 15SEP17

Here're some photos of a 30mm GW Khorne of Skulls titan.  It's a WIP.

                                          Front view of a 30mm GW Khorne Lord of Skulls

                                          Side view of a 30mm GW Khorne Lord of Skulls

Review of The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

Author:  Raoul McLaughlin.
Title:  The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes:  The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia, and Han China.
Publisher:  Pen & Sword.
Copyright:  2016.
Pages:  262.

Overview and Impressions:
Academic book on the ancient world economy and the Silk routes that connected the Roman empire with the Han Chinese empire. It also covered the empires of central Asia and the Parthians. Interesting read for those versed in economics. Recommended.

WIP, 1:1 28mm Viet Cong Infantry Company, 03SEP17

Here are photos of a WIP, 1:1 28mm Viet Cong infantry company I've been painting.  I now need to flock and seal the figures...

                                          WIP, 28mm Viet Cong infantry company, photo 1.

                                          WIP, 28mm Viet Cong infantry company, photo 2

The Viet Cong are Local Force variety for my future 28mm Tet Offensive game.

Labor Day 2017 reading...

Here has what I've been reading this Labor Day 2017 weekend:

1)  Private Yankee Doodle by J.P. Martin.  See previous blog review.

2)  The Legend of Drizzt:  Volume 1 by R.A. Salvatore.  Started reading about a D&D hero who's a Drow elf.  I have about 4,000 pages to read in four different novels.  I'm only on page 77....

3)  The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes.  Academic history of the Roman empire's ancient economy and its dependence on the silk trade of the Far East.  Interesting, so  far.....

4)  Started Queen Victoria's Bomb, a pre-steampunk novel written in 1967....

Review of Private Yankee Doodle by J.P. Martin

Author:  J.P. Martin.
Title:  Private Yankee Doodle.
Publisher:  Eastern National.
Copyright:  1962, 2002.
Pages:  305.

Overview and Impressions:
This is an excellent overview of what it was like to serve in General Washington's Army during the American Revolution by an educated NCO who published his own memoirs in 1832.  It gives like to the dangers and travails facing the average soldier during the Revolution.  Recommended.