Auckland Wargaming Club

AWC Member Ben Hill reports in from Oxford, UK, on the local wargaming scene there:

Herro AWC,

In March this year, my wife and I moved to Oxford in the UK. We will be here for a several years while my wife does genius things that I do not understand, similar situation to my wargaming.

I miss the AWC and its excellent members not to mention my Romans and newly painted ACW army. However, with England being the home of toy soldiers I have an excellent opportunity to buy buy buy. With that in mind, I visited the Foundry in Nottingham on July 23 for their open day with Sean (who was visiting the UK). Firstly, Nottingham has very few trees, no men in tights, no sheriff, and maid Marion had no teeth but she knew where St Mark’s road was luckily.

These are a collection of German Seebatallion Marines (Copplestone & Pulp) from Kieran Mahony's collection facing off against the Sudanese Fuzzy-Wuzzies (Perrys) from the collection of Roundie (Wayne) Steward:

15mm Essex English Civil War figures from the collection of John Moher - most are Essex with some Frei Korps making up the numbers...

First up we have the town of El Segundo, from the collection of, and entirely scratch built by, Kieran Mahony - one of the AWC's more prolific model & terrain makers! It was inspired by the hip-hop song "I left my wallet in El Segundo...":

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Then we have the AWC version of Deadwood - again this entire town is scratch built, this time by Roundie (Wayne) Steward, another of the AWC's more prolific modellers (and possibly its most prolific figure painter)...:

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An assortment of Modern Era Soviet forces from the collection of Kieran Mahony:

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