tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392582582228684642.post525639883756620608..comments2024-01-23T10:41:24.413+00:00Comments on 'Victory V': Battle of Dorking - 1871Fraxinushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15187862690231771844noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392582582228684642.post-32903019172633334802009-09-04T00:31:23.375+01:002009-09-04T00:31:23.375+01:00Riddle of the Sands, a great film I got a copy ver...Riddle of the Sands, a great film I got a copy very cheaply on Amazon last year the yacht is exactly my dream ship too, still I have a fibreglass 14ft rowing boat with outboard & a hole in the hull on the River Stour so that will have to do!! Will have to check out Box Hill Fort I am fascinated by fortifications and will post some pics of the 'Grand Shaft' and 'western heights' in Dover soon awesome defence works.<br /><br />Matt I also have found out that Redoubt do a few figs in 28mm Black hat do some 18mm from their Victorian sci fi range and Wessex games I think used to like HLBS....there seems a huge gap in the market will summarise on the blog soon as a follow up on the Battle of Dorking.Fraxinushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15187862690231771844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392582582228684642.post-66381189151124420022009-09-03T14:47:35.791+01:002009-09-03T14:47:35.791+01:00LH-Your knowledge of film titles I have forgotten ...LH-Your knowledge of film titles I have forgotten is once again amazing!<br /><br />I have just remembered the Redoubt range of British in Home Service uniform. Too big for Foundry but good with my Helion Prussians-Oh Dear!<br /><br />This post has also got me wanting to go yachting again-something I have not done in years, go visit the library and see how many of these titles I can find AND visit Dorking!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392582582228684642.post-58334131945999257942009-09-03T10:03:41.995+01:002009-09-03T10:03:41.995+01:00Grr having trouble getting a link in!
The film is...Grr having trouble getting a link in!<br /><br />The film is The Riddle of the Sands (1979) based upon the book by Erskine Childers which was written in 1903. It's story of a plan to invade Britain by Germany is heralded as the first modern spy novel and was also, it's claimed, important in getting the Royal Navy to develop Scapa Flow as a Naval base. Certainly, a year after The Riddle of the Sands was published the government decided that the Royal Navy needed a northern base to counter the growing threat of the Imperial navy.<br /><br />Also near Dorking is Box Hill Fort, one of string built in the late nineteenth century. You can walk around the outside of it. It's just next to the National Trust car park.legatus hedliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392582582228684642.post-78520017107484057632009-09-03T10:00:11.600+01:002009-09-03T10:00:11.600+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.legatus hedliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392582582228684642.post-81149940330864957752009-09-03T09:57:48.847+01:002009-09-03T09:57:48.847+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.legatus hedliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392582582228684642.post-68732372060216977392009-09-03T09:43:21.567+01:002009-09-03T09:43:21.567+01:00I recall a film about some "yachting Brit typ...I recall a film about some "yachting Brit types" on a map making expedition foiling a Prussian plan to invade GB many years ago...one or two of the guys from Brideshead Revisited were in it I believe (Jeremy Irons & "cannot remember his name"). I was particularly struck by their yacht...all wood planks and beautifully varnished. As for Brits HLBS used to do some lovely turn of the century figures in Home Service uniform. Plus I am sure there must be some VSF stuff out there!<br /><br />MattAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392582582228684642.post-24809067263814494592009-09-02T23:15:07.466+01:002009-09-02T23:15:07.466+01:00Chris thanks for the tip off about the 'invasi...Chris thanks for the tip off about the 'invasion of 1910' this kind of alternative history has always held an interest. The Dorking game download of 47 pages looks good will try it out soon.<br /><br />LH ...Dorking models has been my mecca for 35yrs+ seldom see the smiling welcome from old Tony these days as I'm not often in the area...the proprietor and the shop appeared in the book Airfix 'celebrating 50 years of the greatest plastic kits in the world' by Arthur Ward...in fact my father got Tony to sign the copy he bought me from there for christmas 10 years ago! His shop was one of the first to stock 'eastern block' aircraft kits in the 70's, and Tony's scratchbuilt Warships are superb....best window display ever!Fraxinushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15187862690231771844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392582582228684642.post-65305808178336494842009-09-02T20:51:46.611+01:002009-09-02T20:51:46.611+01:00Dorking models is excellent and there is a very go...Dorking models is excellent and there is a very good militaria shop across the road.legatus hedliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392582582228684642.post-48680026538366458892009-09-02T19:55:32.002+01:002009-09-02T19:55:32.002+01:00I love all these fictional accounts of an invasion...I love all these fictional accounts of an invasion of Britain at the end of 19th/early 20th century. There were a lot of different bits of fiction like this around. My favourite was "The invasion of 1910 (written in 05) about a German invasion via east anglia. I'd love to game these conflicts, with a set of rules which reflected the authors opinions of how the inevitable war would be fought, rather than the way it ultimately was fought.Chris Cornwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00266210916076524044noreply@blogger.com