Birthday wishes or Christmas presents

Two months to my birthday and I want to see if  can get into Cold War gaming on a limited scale over here. I'll be looking into getting plastic 1/72 figures as well as from Elheim Minatures in the UK. With my impending move back to Canada, I will continuing my war gaming back home!

 This looks tempting! 

 This is the main rule book I will purchase as my previous rule set I had was eaten by mice while in storage.

(All artwork from Osprey Publishing)

Luck Dragon Number 5: The Castle Bravo Incident

I visited the Daigo Fukuryu Maru memorial hall on my way home from a Saturday assignment. I have some shots I took. I asked my Japanese mother-in-law is she knew of this, and yes she remembered it, plus one of the last survivors recently passed away. My pictures I will attach later.

From wikipedia:

Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸^?, S.S. Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat, with a crew of 23 men, which was exposed to and contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States' Castle Bravo thermonuclear device test on Bikini Atoll, on March 1, 1954.

Aikichi Kuboyama, the boat's chief radioman, died less than seven months later of liver cirrhosis on September 23, 1954, having suffered along with the 22 other crew members of acute radiation syndrome (ARS) for a number of weeks after the Bravo test in March. Due toARS treatment, the crew began to recover, Kuboyama's cause of death in late September is regarded to have been due to underlyingliver cirrhosis compounded by an infection.^{[1][better source needed]} The majority of medical experts believe that the crew members were infected with hepatitis C through blood transfusions during part of their ARS treatment.^[2] Kuboyama is considered^{[by whom?]} the first victim of the hydrogen bomb of test shot Castle Bravo.^{[citation needed]}

Osprey Publishing - Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land

Osprey Publishing Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land

 Not sure if I blogged about this book. My Dad got it for me in a book sale a ways back. A good balanced read about this conflict.

I still haven't gotten a picture done up of my copy but I should be able to find eventually

Happy New Year

To those of the Cold War, service personnel from all sides, as well as the civilians who suffered.
25 years since it all began to end. So glad.
PEACE

The Cold War that hasn't ended

This week, the world was reminded of the paradox of the ongoing Korean War. Now while many want to fob off North Korea, take a moment to ponder some Cold facts.
Despite the Korean Peoples Armed Forces having Soviet era kit, that stuff can still do some damage.
Their artillery showed back in 2010 that it can still kill and maim and inflict damage.
The fact that they may have nuclear weapons puts a pause to consider that not only South Korea but Japan are also at risk.
Sony is a Japanese company, which Koreans don't have much time for.
Cancelling a movie seems to play into their hands, yet something must have really spooked them.

Belgian 16th Division 1988

Since I have returned to Canada, I have been slowly sorting out my Cold War figures, and will hopefully be posting some updated shots of my Belgians for the cold war.

4th Mechanized Brigade:
2 Leopard 1 tanks
4th Lancers: 2 Scimatar tanks
1eme Grenadiers: modeled with ESCI NATO armed with FNs and GPMG
5eme Linge: ESCI NATO armed with FNs and GPMP mounted in M113 when I can get them.
9eme Linge Anti-Tank (Milan system with truck)
Artillery support will come from NATO allies

Another Canadian TOW and more Cold War Canadians

I will be upgrading this page with a shot of my own M113 modelled with a TOW

Sorry for the side view, this is a PPCLI private about 1983

Lynx Command vehicle