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One of Donatello’s most important bronze statues is being restored: should it ever be shown outdoors again? “Gattamelata”, one of the most important bronze sculptures of the Renaissance, has been brought inside for restoration—and it may never return to its piazza in Padua

Interesting
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Fantastic

Wow

Very good book but strange how it claims to ‘reveal’ who won the Hyboria campaign - which T Bath had revealed himself in the last part of his magazine series on the campaign in (by then) Military Modelling. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think the Old School vibe comes free with SYW games

Photo of a Seven Years War wargame, in the middle of which, one of our black cats, Morgan, has curled up and gone to sleep.

If the Prussians take that hill, they’ll have the surprise of their lives

Would be confusing in Hull, where toad is pronounced turd…

😢

Like I need this temptation…

Where is your Mediterranean household?

Aerial view on Google Earth

@caseshotpublish.bsky.social !

Lidl Italian operations and its crisp production are weirdly focused on the sites of Napoleon’s victories

👆🏻What he said

Scorpion in the bottom of a packing box

The great unboxing has commenced (after nearly two years). Found this fellow (about 5cm long when on the move) in the bottom of a box of boxes of 1/72 figures
‘Come and visit for some games’
[some hours later in A&E]
‘Well that went well…’

“Whenever you want to buy something stupid you say it will be a teaching aid”: my then girlfriend.

Currently he is most interested in the horse and (especially) cart - in line with his general obsession with lorries, diggers, tractors, etc

🤣

Have I set him off towards becoming a wargamer?!

Painting of the Battle of Santa Cruz, featuring British Warships bombarding one of the town’s forts, a sinking cutter, rowing boats going ashore under fire.

The playground from the Spanish ‘castle’ showing ‘canon’, and climbing franes based on a British battleship, the sinking cutter, rowing boats…

The playground ‘castle’

The ‘sinking cutter’ climbing frame with a ‘rowing boat’ in the background

1:1 ‘wargaming’ for kids. In Santa Cruz de Tenerife there’s a whole kids’ playground based on the battle of Sta Cruz (1797 a where Nelson list his arm) and specifically on a particular painting of it. It’s insane - it’s fantastic. Esp if you have the excuse (eg a 2-yr-old) to explore it!

Mr Humbert d’Umpty, a prominent local purveyor of pies.

Self-aggrandisement beginning ‘most people think…’ has a familiar ring to it

The ‘British battleship’ climbing frame.

British soldier

Lord Nelson - depicted inaccurately as already having lost his arm. Tut tut

Spanish commander - Guttierez

Spanish gunner

More photos of boards with cut-out faces to look through

Painting of the Battle of Santa Cruz, featuring British Warships bombarding one of the town’s forts, a sinking cutter, rowing boats going ashore under fire.

The playground from the Spanish ‘castle’ showing ‘canon’, and climbing franes based on a British battleship, the sinking cutter, rowing boats…

The playground ‘castle’

The ‘sinking cutter’ climbing frame with a ‘rowing boat’ in the background

1:1 ‘wargaming’ for kids. In Santa Cruz de Tenerife there’s a whole kids’ playground based on the battle of Sta Cruz (1797 a where Nelson list his arm) and specifically on a particular painting of it. It’s insane - it’s fantastic. Esp if you have the excuse (eg a 2-yr-old) to explore it!

40 minutes on the train from us!

Mine was Bruce Quarrie's Airfix Napoleonic Wargaming book/rules.

Thought I recognised it. I read all of the Howard Conan stories when I was in my early teens.