2009 Kristiansten Fortress, Trondheim, Norway

Kristiansten Fortress, built 1681–1684, is located on a hill east in Trondheim. It repelled the invading Swedes in 1718, but was decommissioned in 1816 by Crown Prince Regent Charles John.

We were there on the opening day for the summer season, so didn't get to go inside the tower, but the views were great.

1992 25mm Napoleonic Waterloo

In the days when wargamers could smoke heavily indoors I played Waterloo game on a 12ft x 6ft table laid out to roughly represent the famous terrain. Hougoumont was represented by club members home made church and La Haye Sainte by the Airfix fix of the famous farm. The French figures were majority Minifigs and the British I think were/are Connoisseur. I say are as they form the core of my Napoleonic armies now. We used home made rules and scaled the forces involved to fit the figures we had. In hindsight the battle probably represented Waterloo in name only but I remember we has a blast. I can't remember who won which probably means I was on the losing side, which I think was French.

1992 1st 25mm Peninsular Napoleonic game

Here are some photos of my very first Napoleonic Peninsular game back in 1992 in the Methodist Church hall. We called ourselves a modelling club rather than a wargame club just in case it upset any sensibilities.

The game was played with  house rules written by a club mate and owner of the British.

Village top left was made by my Dad, but you couldn't put anything inside the buildings. The French we'd purchased second by hand meeting up with our contact who sold them on a friends behalf at a Little Chef. So there we were one summers night as the light was fading 2 cars with their boots open swapping money and moving boxes. When we turned around we noticed we were being watched by a couple of curious coppers in a Police car. We must have looked quite suspicious.

The yellow tape is a river and the red tape fords.

The British were owned by a club mate at this time before my Dad bought them off him when he moved out of the area.