The domestic modelling joys of the Roll Top Desk

Reprinted from Henry Harris, How to Go Collecting Modelling Soldiers (PSL, 1969)

Posted in response to the photos of his desirable new roll top desk for painting and modelling by Alan Tradgardmastre at the ever interesting Duchy of Tradgardland blog

http://tradgardland.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/new-to-me.html

Some illustrators I know use roll top desks for much the same tidy domestic reasons.

Henry Harris’ useful little book also has a 6 page chapter on Wargames by Donald Featherstone including a short rules section, reprinted here and those in Featherstone’s own Book Tackle Model Soldiers This Way (Stanley Paul, 1963) :

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/featherstone-simple-ww2-rules/

Blogposted by Mark, Man of TIN blog, 15 September 2018.

Simplest Featherstone rules ever?

This very short back of postcard  rules featured in a very short chapter on Wargames by Donald Featherstone in Henry Harris’ book How to Go Collecting Model Soldiers, first published by PSL in 1969.

They seem a great distillation of his own rules and H.G. Wells, presumably as good for 54mm military models / conversions  as for smaller figures.

“Simple, isn’t it?” as Donald Featherstone puts it.

Posted by Man of TIN, June 2016.