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« Reply #101 on: December 17, 2016, 07:13:40 PM »
  As the year comes to an end  ???  I have my year end books list,  This year was not really a large amount of books on Uniforms :-\  Histoire & Collections did not come out with any in there Officers and Soldiers series. They had one on Women In Uniform but if its like the two volumes on American Uniforms in the Vietnam War forget it. Second Andrea Publishing. Grunt, US Elite Force and Hookup US Paratroops in Vietnam and the Cold War. All three of these books have loads and loads of pictures of equipment. ???  Now for those who have deep pockets there is The Belgain Army in The Great War, and Imperial German Artillery 1871-1914 By Verlag Militaria very nice books but very expensive and heavy :o  The Hungarian Army Series from Hungary is a great deal I now have all 10 of them 8)  Osprey had some great titles this year the Warrior series and  Men at Arms. 8) Military Mode Publishing weighting for there Campaign 1916 to come out and they said they where going to do, one on the patches of the British Soldier in World War I. Now for the Armor fans  Camouflage and Markings Allied Armor in the Battle for Cassino Jan-May 1944, Camouflage and Markings Commonwealth & Greek Armor in The Balkans Campaign April-May 1941 .  This year also marks a milestone for me :o  After years of buying books I have come to a halt. I no longer have the room :P  I have a collection that if there's a question I can fine the answer. ::)  I am now at the point where I can pick and choose ::) . Also I have been buying CDs on uniforms and I like them and they don't take up room. So if you have any ideas about CDs or books let me know. Willie

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« Reply #100 on: November 17, 2016, 02:51:04 PM »
we have never met willie but from one flat painter to   another happy birthday. :D

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« Reply #99 on: November 17, 2016, 09:39:41 AM »
I've been 35 - twice! Happy birthday to all you kids. Hope your present comes in a bottle.
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« Reply #98 on: November 17, 2016, 12:19:05 AM »
I must be one of the youngest here, turned 47 two months ago.

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« Reply #97 on: November 16, 2016, 10:24:04 AM »
Good heavens where all of the 35 year old flat painters on this site?


mark  8)  feeling relatively spry at 56
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« Reply #96 on: November 16, 2016, 09:29:09 AM »
Let me also join the welcomers - by the way I fulfilled westerday the 61st year. :-\
Best regards-
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« Reply #95 on: November 16, 2016, 05:12:24 AM »

Belated birthday greetings for yesterday, Willie, from another who has reached 69 (in October).  Now you have Stuart Reid's excellent book "Like Hungary Wolves", you might be considering painting some figures from that era.  I can certainly recommend the Highlanders produced by the Austrian Editor, Scheibert.  These figures are available from http://www.zinnfigurenwelt-katzelsdorf.at     
Marko and Gerhard kindly recommended the site to me when I was looking for information about Scheibert in September.  Peter oo~


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« Reply #94 on: November 15, 2016, 10:41:14 PM »
Going to take the day off :o  Today is my 69th Birthday That makes me older then rocks and mud.  ;D  . Willie


Happy Birthday Willie :) I had to work on mine......Yesterday! Older than rocks and mud, eh - now I know why I felt the way I did when I woke up to 69, too. :'(

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« Reply #93 on: November 15, 2016, 09:29:28 PM »
Happy birthday willie
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« Reply #92 on: November 15, 2016, 04:02:29 PM »
Happy Birthday Wilie,
 Your choices in books is excellent!
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« Reply #91 on: November 15, 2016, 03:08:35 PM »
Funny thing, in the last year I have hunted them all down with the exception of the Somme which I have little interest in.

My favorite was the Zulu Wars though all of them have been exceptionally well written.  This one manages to tell the entire story of the campaign in this one volume with the major focus centered around Rorke's Drift.

I saw and ignored these for years until the Crimea Lancers cousin Charles put out sparked my interest.  Thoroughly impressed on the quality I hunted them down one by one paying far more than if I purchased over time as they were discovered.

Any way one of many guilty pleasures and another wound to my wallet cousin Charles has to answer for...

mark  8)
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« Reply #90 on: November 15, 2016, 02:13:58 PM »
Willie, best wishes to your birthday  from Germany too :)


To the books you have mentioned I can only say, I own Zulu War and The Last Charge (21st Lancers) from this serie
and I can  highly recommend them

Next on my list will be "The frontier Ablaze"

Erich

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« Reply #89 on: November 15, 2016, 10:43:33 AM »
Happy Birthday Willie

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« Reply #88 on: November 15, 2016, 10:39:04 AM »
Happy birthday Willie, hopefully you get a lot of books as presents!


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« Reply #87 on: November 15, 2016, 08:18:45 AM »
Going to take the day off :o  Today is my 69th Birthday That makes me older then rocks and mud.  ;D  . Willie