140th Anniversary photo book .Ian Knight/David Walker

After the last post about my AZW book collection I recieved lovely book from Ian J Knight ,basically a album of photographs taken at the 140th anniversary re enactment this year, other than a small introduction by Ian there are nowords just colour photos taken on the day .A really nice book available directly from Ians web site but it is a very limitedprinting if you want one.

My Zulu War Book Collection

Im quite proud of my collection of AZW books ,quite a few of them signed by the authors with a few with personal inscriptions to me from Ian J. Knight .A couple of friends have offered to lend me books recently both of which I had and when I see books in 2nd stores I always struggle to remember if I have them or if they are on my wanted list , so I thought I would make list of the ones I own  and here it is .The yellow bars are by Ian Knight ,the Green by Kris Wheatley and Red by mike Snook .

a sketch of the Kafir & Zulu Wars	Henry Hallam Parr
A staffordshire Regiment in the Zulu & Sekukuni campaigns 1878-1879	Robert Hope
A Wargamers Guide to the Anglo Zulu War	Daniel Mersey
A Widow Making War -the life and death of aofficer in Zululand 1879
Anatomy of the Zulu Army from Shaka to Cetshwayo 1818-1879	Ian Knight
Blood on the painted Mountain	Ron Lock
Brave Mens Blood	Ian Knight
British Forces in Zululand 1879	Ian Knight
British Fortifications in Zulu Land 1879	Ian Knight
British Infantryman in South Africa 1877-81	ian castle
British Infantryman v Zulu Warrior	Ian Knight
By order of the Great White Queen	Ian Knight
Companion to the Anglo Zulu War	Ian Knight
Crossing the Buffalo-the Zulu war of 1879	Adrian Greaves
Dead was everything -studies in the Anglo Zulu war	kieth smith
Despatches from the front The Zulu Wars
Fearful Hard Times -the siege &relief of eshowe	Ian Castle &Ian Knight
first zulu manual	i.fox
Forgotten Battles of the Zulu War	Adrian Greaves
Great Zulu Battles 1838-1906	Ian Knight
Great Zulu Commanders	Ian Knight
Guidebook to the Anglo-Zulu War Battlefields	David Rattray
How can men die better	Mike Snook
Isandlwana	Ian Castle &Ian Knight
Isandlwana 1879	Edmund Yorke
John Williams VC a biography	W.G.Lloyd
Kingdom in Crisis	John Laband
Legacy of the Rorkes Drift Heroes vol1	Kris Wheatley
Legacy of the Rorkes Drift Heroes vol2	Kris Wheatley
Legacy of the Rorkes Drift Heroes vol3	Kris Wheatley
Legacy of the Rorkes Drift Heroes vol4	Kris Wheatley
Legacy of the Rorkes Drift Heroes Vol5	Kris Wheatley
Legacy of the Rorkes Drift Heroes vol6	Kris Wheatley
Legacy of the Rorkes Drift Heroes vol7	Kris Wheatley
Legacy of the Rorkes Drift Heroes vol8	Kris Wheatley
Legacy of the Rorkes Drift Heroes vol9	Kris Wheatley
Legacy of the Rorkes Drift Heroesvol10	Kris Wheatley
Like Lions they Fought-the last zulu war	Robert B Edgerton
Like Wolves on the Fold The defense of Rorkes Drift	Mike Snook
Lord Chelmsford & the zulu war	Major Gerald French -foreward by bindon blood
March to the Drums -eyewitness acounts of war from the Kabul Maasacre to the siege of Mafikeng	Ian Knight
Narrative of the Field Operations connected with the Zulu War of 1879
Nothing Remains but to Fight-the defense of Rorkes Drift	Ian Knight
Rorkes Drift	James w Bancroft
Rorkes Drift	Ian Castle &Ian Knight
Rorkes Drift & the British Museum The lifeof Henry Hook V.C	Barry c.Johnson
Rorkes Drift &Isandlawana 1879-A Battlefield Guide	Chris Peers
Rorkes Drift 1879	Ian Knight
Rorkes Drift a new perspective	neil thornton
Rorkes Drift Diary- an account of the battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift zululand january 22nd 1879	Captain William Penn Symons
sister Janet	brian best & Katie stossel
The  Sun Turned Black-Isandlwana & Rorkes Drift	Ian Knight
The Boiling Cauldron -utrecht district&th AZW 1879	Huw m Jones
The Curling Letters of the Zulu War
The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo- Zulu War	John Laband & Paul Thompson
The National Army Museum book of the Zulu War	Ian Knight
The Naval Brigade in South Africa-1877-1878-1879	Henry F. Norbury
The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation	John Laband
The Tribe that Washed its Spears	adrian Greaves & Xolani Mkhize
The war correspondents the anglo zulu war	John Laband &Ian Knight
The Washing of the spears	Donald R morris
The Zulu Army and Zulu Headmen
The Zulu War	Angus McBride
The Zulu War	Ian Knight
The Zulu War 1879	Lt Col F.E.Whitton
The Zulu War a pictorial history	Michael Barthorp
the Zulu war journal	col henry hartford
The Zulu War Then and Now	Ian Castle &Ian Knight
The Zulu War through contempory eyes
The Zulus	Ian Knight & Angus McBride
There will be an awful row at home about this	Ian Knight
Through the Zulu Country	Bertram Mitford
Victorias harvest -the irish soldier in the zulu war of 1879	David Truesdale & John Young
Who's Who in the Zulu war 1879 vol 2 the colonials & Zulus	Ian Knight &Adrian Greaves
Who's Who in the Zulu war 1879 vol1 the British	Ian Knight &Adrian Greaves
With His Face to the Foe -The life & death of Loius Napoleon,The Prince Imperial Zululand 1879	Ian Knight
Zulu	Saul David
Zulu 1816-1906	Ian Knight & Angus McBride
Zulu Battle Piece	Sir Reginald Coupland
Zulu Dawn	Cy endfield
zulu rising-the epic story of Isandlwana & Rorkes Drift	Ian Knight
Zulu the truth behind the film	Paul Raby
Zulu War -volunteers,irregulars and Auxiliaries	ian castle
Zulu War 1879 twilight of a  warrior nation	Ian Castle &Ian Knight
Zulu War VC's	James w.Bancroft
Zulu with some guts behind it	Sheldon Hall
Zulu-Frontiersman	Major c.g.Dennison
Zulu-Isandlwana & Rorkes Drift 22-23 Jan 1879	Ian Knight
Zulu-Victory	Ron Lock &Peter Quantrill

A Small Beach Party for the joy of six

Had chance to help play test sheffield wargames societys game for the joy of six show last night , great fun if you going to the show make sure you give it a try ,very tactical but fun and only takes an hour or so .

Urbanmatz 3d printable terrain

You know how impressed I am with Urbanmatz products ,well their new venture looks great 3d printable terrian which looks really nice and cheap ,its not something I am into myself yet but I know lots of people are
https://www.urbanmatz.com/c/3d-printable-terrain

Mussolini's Pride the Regia Marina and a merchant ship for cruel seas

Finished my Italian Navy fleet box and also a merchant ship which I have left with no mrkings so it can fit into a convoy for any nation .The Italians consist of a Gabbiano class corvette which I showed off in an earlier post , MZMotozattera a well armed conversion of a german f lighter , another  f lighter with italian weapons but still able to carry a 100 men or 3 light tanks and 4 MAS boats really fast but lightly armed and armoured MTBs .

A battered merchant ship 

these are quite large even in 1/300 scale

Mussolinis Navy

again with ruler to give an idea of size

The MZ a well armed conversion of the german F Lighter 

every thing in its transport box tin foil and magnetic sheet to prevent heavy seas causing damage .

D-Day game

Last night at sheffield wargames society we played Johns game based around the British airbourne landings on D-Day , we had to plan our operation based on the original objectives ,then fly in in our paper planes ,I mean gliders then perform our set tasks. Glad to say all went very well and the Landings were successful and we held until relieved .Great fun .

some serious planning 

the invasion begins

up the Ox and Bucks

the german counter attack ...

BANG

using the captured AT position to take out the hotels roof 

another German counter attack ....

BANG 

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