If it was good enough for Peter Cushing...

Had to post this up as I'm a big fan of Hammer horror movies and Peter Cushing. Finding out that he was an avid toy soldier collector, painter as well as a FLW enthusiast was tremendous. Moreover, this bit of news was charmingly related by a wonderful Pathe News film made in 1956!

Was absolutely entranced by this little film and as the title of this post says, if it's good enough for this icon of British horror it's certainly good enough for me!

Charmingly illustrated 'History of WW1' in 6 minutes

With the centennial anniversary of the outbreak of The Great War coming up it seems that the world of Funny Little Wars is donning it's tin hat and readying itself for the pretend war to end all pretend wars. So it's perhaps time to remind ourselves how the whole cuffufle began with this charmingly illustrated potted history...

It's a funny little world...Turkish Delight!

I think there is a tendency to think of H.G. Wells' Funny Little Wars as a peculiarly British hobby, a sort of slightly eccentric war gaming for eccentric English gentlemen. I myself, only a recent newcomer to the hobby, supposed that the penetration of this garden and table-top war game was restricted to these sceptered isles.

Altar's Turkish modelling store - bazaare! ;)

But today I was interested to read a small mention of Funny Little Wars on a Turkish modelling blog. MiniAFV is run by a couple of Turkish modellers who specialise in Braille Scale military kits, but while reviewing a book written about the venerable T-26 tank they mentioned in passing that the Turkish publisher - Altar - had produced: "The first ever translation of H. G. Wells’ 1913 masterpiece Little Wars received a similar enthusiastic welcome from Turkish readers."

I find this particularly interesting as my very first project in this genre is based on Turkish infantry!

MiniAFV Blog: T-26 B tank model kit and history book (by Altar Model)