Musings of a Hobby Hipster: 99 Problems but a Beach ‘Aint One 17th January 202414th January 2024Duncan Gosling 1 Hello everyone and welcome to 2024, the year which sees 20 years since the launch of Facebook, 500 years since Vasco de Gama [...]
Musings of a Hobby Hipster: Task Force “A” – Brittany Speared 13th November 202320th December 2023Duncan Gosling 1 The Origins There were always plans for a portion of the American troops landing in Normandy bridgeheads of the D-Day beachs and to [...]
Kissing Dutch Nightingales 2nd October 202326th September 2023Duncan Gosling 1 I write this post in a haze of post-DSEI relief. Time has become relative and the spinning clock hands have slowed sufficiently that [...]
Cocktail Stick, Powder and Paint 24th July 2023Duncan Gosling 2 Last time out we looked at something completely different… well, this time it should be all too familiar as we look at using [...]
I’m the Urban Base-man 31st May 202330th May 2023Duncan Gosling 1 And now for something completely different… well, from me at any rate. With the release of the German-Berlin book, the landscape changed. Not [...]
Musings of a Hobby Hipster; Hungry, Hungry Hungarians – Part 2 8th May 20233rd May 2023Duncan Gosling 1 Previously on Musings of a Hobby Hipster… We looked at creating a Mid-War Hungarian list that could take on all comers, Case Blue, [...]
Musings of a Hobby Hipster; 1001 Nights Volume V4 17th April 202312th April 2023Duncan Gosling 4 When the wind’s from the EastAnd the sun’s from the WestAnd the sand in the glass is rightCome on down, stop on byHop [...]
Musings of a Hobby Hipster; Vae Victis 27th March 20231st April 2023Duncan Gosling 10 “Take care that none of them escapes” “The Deeds of Charlemagne” – Notker the Stammerer Berlin, Germany. 24th April 1945. Around 330 exhausted [...]
Musings of a Hobby Hipster; Hungry, Hungry Hungarians – Part 1 15th March 202328th February 2023Duncan Gosling 2 Case Blue, Uranus and the End of Army Group South Guess who’s back? Back again… it’s Mid-War! That’s right having been distracted by [...]
Musings of a Hobby Hipster; Bring on the Boyevaya Mashina Desanta 20th February 202314th February 2023Duncan Gosling 1 Whilst others might be excited for the Cubans to hit the south-western continental US, or VDV to occupy the Wonalds in Colorado, or [...]