Looking Around

New Magazines 1972

by Don Featherstone

AIRFIX MAGAZINE August 1972. Illustrated articles on modelling a Zulu and a Fuzzy Wuzzy; a mediaeval town; Afrika Korps; plus reviews and other features.

AVALON HILL GENERAL May-June 1972. All the latest gen on board wargames.

BATTLEFLEET No. 11. Illustrated articles on World War I and II Naval operations and vessels.

MILITARY AFFAIRS (The Journal of the American Military History Institute). Of interest to wargamers "The 1940 Small Wars Manual"; Warfare on the Pampas in the 18709; plus excellent book and museum reviews.

MILITARY MODELLING August 1972. Illustrated articles on cavalry in the Napoleonic Wargame; Hinchliffe figure review; the S.A.S. and their jeeps; Armoured care of the R.A.F.; Micro Armour in 1/285 scale plus reviews etc.

MODEL BOATS August 1972. Tugs in Wartime; Russian Battleship Knyez Souvorov (1899-1902).

PANZERFAUST NO-53 - May-June 1972. Reshaped it contains articles on boardgames; American Civil War cavalry; plus a game Midway Island.

SAVAGE AND SOLDIER July 1972. Essential for the Colonial wargamer contains Sudan Bibliography; The Abyssinian Army in 1886; The Italian Colonial Army 1892; films dealing with Colonial Wars; plus reviews.

SCALE MODELS August 1972. Nothing specifically for wargamers but lots of aircraft and ships.

SIGNAL No.20 - July 1972. Pull of details of latest items plus news of John Mansfield, its lively editor, being posted to Europe for three years - that will liven things up!

SOLDIER July 1972. Well illustrated magazine of the modern British Army.

TRADITION - No.62. Uniforms of the Indian Mutiny; Italian Berseglieri in China 1901; The Fort Henry Guard; Argentine Lancers 1826; Mexico and the War of 1846; Portuguese Army 1806-1814; Imperial Russian Army plus book reviews, etc.


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