AIRFIX MAGAZINE - February 1972. Beautifully produced as always and contains well illustrated articles on German parachutetroops; modelling the Crusader tank; expanding the Airfix Sherwood Castle set; 54mm conversions; American half-tracks; conversions in 1:12 scale; plus book, new kit reviews and correspondents columns.
THE COURIER - Vol. III: No.8. This American Bulletin of the New England Wargamers Association is full of wargaming information and contains articles on the Swedish Army in the Great Northern War; Advanced dargame Campaign 1944; Airfix Conversion Scot 1745; Navy of Mexico 1846-48; Grapeshot by Fred Vietmeyer; A Civil War Campaign; a review of Chainmail Rules; 4argaming in the Ancient Period; A Wargame Bibliography; German Mercenary Troops During the American Revolution; The French Army in World War I; the use of dice; plus reviews and other items.
MILIHISTRIOT - Summer 1971. Contains illustrated articles on the Militia in Colonial America; British in North America; plus uniform details American Army late 19th century.
MILITARY AFFAIRS - October 1971. This is "the journal of military history, including theory and technology and is published for the American Military Institute by the Department of History, Kansas State University". An advanced journal containing articles on Forty Years of the Military Institute 1933-72; General Wood's Experimental Companies; The Pueblo Affair; The Landsknecht; West Point and the First Negro Cadet; Eisenhower, Giraud and the Command of "Torch"; plus book reviews, museum details etc., etc.
MILITARY MODELLING - February 1972. Contains beautifully illustrated article on Converting plastic figures The Thracians; The Grant CDL; Uniforms and Colours of the British Army; Japanese-made Military Kits; A Figure Based on Elastolin; Mediaeval Heraldry; The Napoleonic Wargame by Charles Grant; A Lepe of Leopards Tank; Armoured Cars for the A.A.F.; a review of Hinchliffe figures plus adverts, reviews, etc., etc.
MODEL BOATS - February 1972. Contains an article with plans concerning H.M.S. Chester plus Fighting Fleets in Miniature of the Brazilian Battleship Minas Gerais.
SAVAGE AND SOLDIER - September 1971. Obtainable from Douglas H. Johnson, 10 Overbrock Drive, St. Louis, Mo. U.S.A. 63124. This magazine always excites me, partly because it is about my favourite period but also because it is so beautifully researched and completely unusual. It contains illustrated articles on the Italian Infantry 1887; A Bibliography of books on South African Wars; Movies Dealing with the Colonial Period 1850-1960; Colonial Wargaming; The Foreign Legion 1884-1900; Chainmail Cavalry of the Mahdi's Army; plus book and magazine reviews etc. Well recommended if you fight Colonial Wargames.
THE WARGAMER - November 1971. This American magazine continues to flourish with articles on the Confederate Infantry; Ancient Morale for Wargames; Airborne Units; a Wargame complete with useful map; the boardgame Waterloo; a set of simple World War II Rules; Wargaming on Records; plus book reviews, etc.
TRADITION - Number 59. Immaculately produced as always and containing beautifully illustrated articles on The Brunswick Corps at Waterloo; The Role of the Durham Light Infantry in the Peninsular War; The Papal Carbineers; The Royal Swedish Infantry, Artillery and Navy 1806-14; Austro-Hungarian Infantry Uniforms 1914-1918; Reminiscences of Imperial Russia; The New National Army Museum; The German Naval Airship Service 1914-18; His Majesty's Sicilian Regiment of Light Infantry plus book reviews etc., and also six full pages of coloured plates of the Imperial German Army 1892 and the Armies of the Italian States of Sardinia, Sicily, Modena and Parma 1853.
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