Irishhighlander

A blog on War gaming in North-eastern North America from 1670-1815, the life of an ex EFL instructor, a family man formerly in Japan and now in Canada , a camper, a reenactor, a drummer, and all round crazy but home Nova Scotian. Having taught for an extended period my career is now in private security.

Monday, 23 April 2018

French Garrison of Quebec 1755-59

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Finally since 1989. I have been able to build, paint, mount and field the Metropolitan French Regiments which were sent to New France. La...
Friday, 20 April 2018

Revell Germany 18th century Seven Years War reinforcement

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I returned my security officers uniforms today, and stopped at the hobby shop I go to. I picked up the new double sets they have. One is the...
Monday, 16 April 2018

A crack at building Vauban fortifications.

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I recently bought a building block set of styrafost bricks. The idea is to cut and shape them into what you want to build. My project shall...

18th century rebasing

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After the last game, I noted how many of my figures needed to be repaired and rebase. No shame seeing as many of them have traveled between ...
Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Osprey publishing The Swamp Fox Francis Marion's campaign

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My regimental history of the 2nd Battalion 84th Regiment Royal Highland Emigrants Sent their Grenadier and Light Infantry companies to figh...

Louis XV army full Osprey publishing series

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I finally have a full edition of the series. Thus I can check my collection as to what I have and can field. The biggest part of the army i...
Saturday, 6 January 2018

French attack on Harburg Castle December, 1757

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A French army has assembled in Hanover. At the town Harburg, the French are to invest the town and capture the castle for their winter quart...
Tuesday, 26 December 2017

Pirate action, somewhere in the Carribean 1700

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Ian and I wanted to do a Black Powder game. However, the garage is a bit too cold. One of the future house projects is to either get the wo...
Monday, 18 December 2017

War of 1812 forces

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While I have a British and Canadian force, I'd like to try and build an American force. I have backwoods types, but I'd like to have...
Thursday, 7 December 2017

1755 Campaign: Nova Scotia Part 3. The Final Attack

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One of the projects I will try to work on to get back into the 18th century gamming is the Campaign to capture Fort Beausejour. This will b...
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Nova Scotian, Canadian, ESL in Japan, South Korea and Nunavut. I'm also a wargamer in my spare time and Canadian Forces officer in the Cadet program.
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