Latest book received

[YPU]

Found this for a quid in a local second hand shop:




Lots of full colour plates of fantastic machines and terrain for looking at and planning to build and then not doing it.

 

Ooh, that movie was a guilty pleasure before I started visiting here. Let alone once I realized how big a inspiration it could be. 

[Doomhippie]

"Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress"

A wonderful book written by Shelly Mazzanoble that desrcibes her getting into D&D-games at the age of 30 something. A "girl's guide" to rpg, a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor but at the same time really raising the banner for the hobby. the perfect gift for all the girlfriends and wives who never understand or understood what it's all about.

[YPU]

"Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress"

I agree to all that, it got my girlfriend into DnD. 

[Helen]

Armour in Vietnam by Jim Mesko a Squadron and Signals publications.

Lovely pictorial of armour used in Vietnam and super colour plates.

Helen

[Plynkes]

I've had that Jim Mesko book since I was a teenager, ham-fistedly modelling Tamiya armour in 1/35 scale. Some great pics in there.

[JollyBob]

Dan Dare - Safari into Space as a present from my folks. Belting boy's own story aside, I could spend all day just looking at the luminous Frank Hampson/Frank Bellamy artwork. Beautiful. 

[Blackwolf]

"Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress"

A wonderful book written by Shelly Mazzanoble that desrcibes her getting into D&D-games at the age of 30 something. A "girl's guide" to rpg, a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor but at the same time really raising the banner for the hobby. the perfect gift for all the girlfriends and wives who never understand or understood what it's all about.

 Did Mrs Doomhippie read it ?

[Steve F]

Modesty Blaise: Death in Slow Motion by Peter O'Donnell and Neville Colvin, the latest (17th, I think) volume in Titan Books' reprints of the newspaper strip.  What a shame that the Artizan/Copplestone "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" ranges died out before they made a not-Modesty and a not-Willie.

Also Henry Moore On Being a Sculptor.  Says the great man, "There is a size to scale not to do with its actual physical size, its measurement in feet and inches - but connected with vision."

I'll have to remember that the next time someone asks what scale 28mm "is"!

[Doomhippie]

Did Mrs Doomhippie read it ?

No, not yet. However. when I quoted some parts she could definetely relate. But probably from a more "feministic" point of view. I'm afraid fantasy just isn't her cup of tea.

[Plynkes]

"Bert Trautmann is famed as the goalkeeper who broke his neck in an FA Cup final and played on. But his early life is no less extraordinary: He grew up in Nazi Germany and fought for them in World War Two. In 1945 he was captured and sent to a British POW camp. He embraced England as his new home and before long became an English football hero."

Seems to concentrate more on his war service than football career, which is good, as that's the bit that I know almost nothing about.

War and football, seems tailor-made for a British boy of the 1970s. 

[Plynkes]

I'm trying to paint giraffes, baboons and various other African things right now. Got to keep the inspiration going somehow.

[General Roos]

Found on eBay.

An excellent account of the first air war. Knights of the Air from 1980.

[duhamel]

good book to me    with full-color photos, I think it's a very good book (in French: )

[Helen]

The Malayan Emergency Revisited 1948 - 1960 by LtCol (R) Mohd Azzam Mohd Hanif Ghows.

An excellent Pictorial History of the emergency.

Helen

[YPU]

good book to me    with full-color photos, I think it's a very good book (in French: )

I’ve got a strong feeling I know where that picture on the cover was taken; does it happen to mention the specifics on the inside?