2009 The Armoury, Trondheim, Norway - WW2 section

The Armoury at Trondheim near the Cathedral was a surprise find for me. It covered Norway's military history from the dark ages to today and was full of weapons, uniforms, pictures and dioramas. The family enjoyed it too but as always they didn't enjoy my slow pace as I drunk every section in.

 

The following photos are roughly sequential as I went around and taken from 2 galleries, one on the Norwegian military and the other covering WW2.

 

I'd highly recommend it.

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.