Emmett Dalton & Henry Starr…Bank Robbers and Movie Stars

Actor Justus D. Barnes in "The Great Train Robbery"

I was reading up on Henry Starr just recently and just thought that it might make for an interesting blog entry.  Before I get into more about Henry Starr, I thought I would share why I was reading up on Henry Starr.  At work, we got talking about the movie, “Tombstone” (1993), with Kurt Russell and one of the guys mentioned that he heard the at the old time silent movie scene at the beginning of “Tombstone” was an actual bank robber from the Old West.  I knew that was wrong, but I remember hearing that once before too.  So I went on to explain that was an actor from the first real Hollywood blockbuster, “The Great Train Robbery” (1903.) (Yeah, I have some great useless trivia knowledge.)  I also explained that he was not totally wrong in thinking that Hollywood of that period did use actually known convicted criminals to portray criminals in the movies.  Two famous 'Wild West' bank robbers that I am aware of that Hollywood used in making ‘Wild West’ movies were Emmett Dalton and Henry Starr, both from the Indian Territory, later to be Oklahoma. 

Emmett Dalton

Emmett Dalton, the youngest of the Dalton brothers, was part of the Dalton Gang that would be infamous for attempting to rob two banks in broad daylight at the same time in Coffeyville, Kansas (1892). He was the only survivor of the five gang members with 23 bullet wounds from that attempted robbery in the gun battle with the armed citizens of Coffeyville.  After serving his time, eventually went to Hollywood, wrote a book about his life than eventually played himself in the Hollywood movie, “Beyond the Law” (1918), which was based off of his autobiography.  Emmett Dalton also played in some bit roles and was an adviser in some other movies as well.  It appears that Emmett Dalton lead a straight life after his time in prison, but the same cannot be said about Henry Starr.

(I actually got to visit Coffeyville and see the Coffeyville Defenders’ Museum, the banks, and the bloody alley where the Dalton Gang fell.  Below is a few pictures of Coffeyville.)

One of the two banks that the Daltons attempted to rob

The interior of the bank from above

The alley way that the Dalton's met their end with the outlines of roughly were their bodies laid after the battle

Henry Starr

Belle Starr

Henry Starr was a more interesting character than Emmett Dalton.  Henry Starr was a part Cherokee native that was also a relative to the infamous bandit queen, Belle Starr who was associated with the James-Younger Gang (incidentally, the Daltons where related to the Youngers from the same gang.)  Henry was interesting for several reasons, first was that he is one of the few men to escape being hung by the famous Judge Isaac Parker, “The Hanging Judge”…not once, but twice!  Both times he was not hung were due to legal technicalities.  Later, he created a gang of outlaws in Arkansas and committed a large number of bank robberies, including being credited with the first bank robbery with an automobile as get-away car and using automatic weapons in the USA. (The first to use an automobile and automatic weapons in robberies were the Bonnot Gang in France, 1911-12.  They are also have an interesting read about their criminal activities too.)  Henry Starr may have robbed more banks then any man in history, at least in the US, with 21 banks confirmed and possibly over 30 in total.  He got caught in 1915 and then served time in prison only to be paroled in 1919.  During his time in prison, Henry Starr wrote an autobiography and moved out to Hollywood right out of prison to become a movie star.  Like Emmitt Dalton, Henry Starr starred himself in his autobiographic film, “A Debtor to the Law” (1919) and he was also in a couple of other movies too.  

However, unlike Emmitt Dalton, Henry Starr couldn’t shake his old ways.  On February 18, 1921, Henry Starr and three other men drove out in a Nash car, along with some automatic firearms, to Harrison, Arkansas, to rob the Peoples National Bank.  After robbing the bank of $6000 (almost $83,500 in 2015 USD), Henry Starr was shot in the back by the former bank president, WJ Myers, as he was trying to escape.  The rest of the gang escaped unharmed and never have been caught or identified. Henry Starr died four days later.  His mother, who was there at this death bed, probably said the most fitting epitaph for Henry Starr after she was told that he died, stating, "Henry has always been a trial to me, but thank God, I will know where he is tonight. I believe his character was being moulded even before his birth." 

Saddle up, posse!

Sapper

End of February Updates

Well, first off I am sure by now that you have heard about the passing away of Leonard Nimoy.  What a shame.  I really liked his voice and he seemed to have been a very nice guy.  I saw his last twitter message to everyone in the news and it was very moving.  Unlike many people, my first real exposure to Leonard Nimoy was not through Star Trek, but the TV show, In Search of…, which I enjoyed greatly as a kid.   I was too young to have seen the original series when it was the first run, never really got into them either, but I did watch about a dozen of them.  It was the movies that got me into Star Trek, but I am by far not a Trekkie in any means.  The closest I can say to being a Trekkie is that I did watch all of the movies and the first four seasons of the Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as that series final, plus the dozen or so episodes from the original series.  Oddly enough, the same holds true with my introduction and liking William Shatner came not from Star Trek but either in a rerun of the Twilight Zone episode, Nightmare at 20,000 feet, or  the movie The Horror at 37,000 Feet or Big Bad Mama (I am not sure which one I saw first) and later, TJ Hooker.  

Below is a YouTube link to the Bermuda Triangle episode of In Search Of...

In the area of books, I have knocked out some more James Bond books since my last entry.  I am now just starting, You Only Live Twice.  This is the third to last book in series, so I will be finishing the series soon.  Overall, I really am enjoying the series, but I didn’t really care for The Spy Who Loved Me.  So, it looks like I will be starting up the Bruce Nichols’ four volume set, Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, sometime in April or early May at the latest.

I also just finished the unabridged audiobook, Gallipoli, by Peter FitzSimons.  It is very good.  While it is mainly over the ANZAC, it does touch quite a bit on Turks too, and to lesser extended the rest of the Allied powers.  The narrator for the audiobook, Robert Meldrum, was also very good, including doing accents to narrative accounts in the book.  I am really forward to listening to more by this narrator.  Luckily, he does narrate one other FitzSimons’ book, Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution, about the revolt at the Eureka Stockade in Australia.  Next up on the listening queue is the ‘Alien Voices’ radio plays Star Trek:  Spock vs. Q and Star Trek:  Spock vs. Q: The Sequel performed by Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie in honor of Leonard Nimoy.

I have been getting some figures together to send off to be painted and will hopefully have them sent off in the next week or two as I am typing out the painting instructions.  Now with the house paid off plus I am not planning not to spend much of my regular hobby allowance on new stuff, I will be shipping more figures off to be painted on a regular basis to get some projects done.   This first batch is going to be odds and sorts.  But after that, I am going to focus on one project at a time on what I will get painted.  I probably will start with my 15mm French & Indian War project again.  I probably should send in my 15mm Canadians for the Ridgeway project instead, but I really want to paint those myself.  I plan to get back to painting them next week as I probably will not have much time tonight and Thursday night I have to go through a CPR class in the evening until 8pm, then I fly home for Friday and the weekend.  With any luck, by the end of next week, I will have the figures done for the 13^th Hamilton done and needing to be based (and which I still have not completely decided on how I will do yet.)

This weekend, I hope to work a little more on my basement to clear off my table.  The last time I was home, I didn’t put stuff up but instead threw more stuff on to the table to sort through.  This time I am just going to start boxing stuff up and not worry about sorting for now.  I have seem to have mis-placed my excel file that created to list all of the stuff that I plan to depart with soon.  I have to search around for it as I really don’t want to have to recreate it and recount every all over again.  I plan to start putting stuff up for sell this summer.  I plan to offer stuff to my closest gaming friends first, then on my blog next, followed by TMP’s (The Miniatures Page) Market Board, and then Ebay.  I might try to get rid of some of it at a local game auction or maybe at a local con if they have reasonable table rates.  Otherwise it they will most likely go to the landfill after a year of trying to get rid of the stuff.  I hate to do it, but I need to clear stuff out.

Cheers,

Joe

A good year for solitaire board games

So I was looking at the Strategy & Tactics Magazine website because I remembered that they had recently released a game on the chase of the SMS Goeben in 1914.  After listening to the audio book, Kaiser’s Pirates, my interested was peaked on the subject of the German raiders and was hoping that it was a solitaire game so I could play it when I am out of town working.  With luck, it is a solitaire game.  But was I also found that S&T had recently and will be release quite a few solitaire games through all three of their magazine titles (Strategy & Tactics, Modern War, & World at War).  A large number of them have perked my interest for topics.  It really is nice to see more games coming out for solo gamers or gamers like me that can’t be around my usual gaming friends most of the time.

So I will be putting an order out for several of them now and plan to buy some more later as they are release.  Below is a list of the various solitaire games and a brief description that I “cut & paste” right from the S&T website.  I hope this listing will be really useful for some.

Already Available Games:

From Ra'anana Gamer (link)

Strategy & Tactics #287 – Goeben

“Goeben, 1914 puts you in command of the SMS Goeben, the German battlecruiser that made a historically epic voyage through the Mediterranean during the opening days of World War One. This is a solitaire game in which the player must accomplish a specific “objective” to win the game, which will be generated at random at the start of the scenario. The player must manage the various outfittings and functions of the SMS Goeben and its escorting light cruiser, the SMS Breslau. As you fight your way through the Mediterranean, you will encounter various Allied warships, merchantmen for raiding, and unexpected opportunities and objectives. These are represented by “Incident” chits.”

Modern War #10 - Target Iran

“Target Iran is a solitaire simulation of a hypothetical US-Coalition-Israeli attack on Iran to destroy weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and other critical targets. The game begins with a "strategic" phase wherein the player conducts reconnaissance, cyberwar and mobilization (the purchasing of assets) for the actual attack, and then an "operational" stage, which is when your attack is actually executed.”

Modern War #14 - Carrier Battlegroup

“Carrier Battlegroup puts you in command of a US Navy carrier task force operating against the Soviet fleet in the North Atlantic in the 1980’s. This is a solitaire game, played in scenarios. The player must accomplish the scenario’s Objective, which will be generated at random at the start of the scenario. You, the player, must manage your carrier, its air group, and your escorts. As you operate your battlegroup, you will encounter various Soviet warships, aircraft, missiles, and unexpected opportunities and objectives. These are represented by Incident chits.”

World at War #10 - Coral Sea Solitaire

“A purpose-designed one-player wargame covering the aero-naval battle that took place between the US and Imperial Japanese Navies in May 1942. It was the first of the Pacific War.  CSS is based on the game system used in World at War number three Solomons Campaign; however, there are significant differences owing to the smaller scale of this operation and the systemic necessitates inherent in a solitaire design.”

World at War #37 - Bloody Ridge: Decision on Guadalcanal, 13 September 1942

“A purpose-designed solitaire wargame of low complexity simulating the climactic Japanese night attack of that date. The attacked was aimed at nothing less than the capture of Henderson Field and the annihilation of the entire US ground force on the island.  You are on the offensive, commanding the Japanese attack force that’s attempting to break through the US Marine defense.”

World at War #38 - Ghost Division

Ghost Division is a solitaire game in which you, the player, takes command of General Erwin Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division during the drive across Belgium and France in those heady days of May and June of 1940 (there are four German formations in the game that drive the events of play: The 7th Panzer Division, a regiment of the 5th Panzer Division, a regiment of SS-Totenkopf Division, and the 15th Motorized Corps’ non-divisional units, also representing OKW non-divisional units).

World at War #40 - Rampage & Stalingrad Cauldron

“Rampage is purpose-designed solitaire wargame that covers the fighting in northwest Europe from the time of the Argentan-Falaise encirclement in mid-August 1944 through the end of September. You actively command the Allied forces, while the rules system directs you in the handling of German forces. You win by accumulating victory points via seizure of key areas on the map.”

“Stalingrad Cauldron (SC) is purpose-designed solitaire wargame that covers the fighting in the areas of German Army Groups A and D on from the time of Sixth Army’s encirclement late in November 1942 through to its destruction at the end of January 1943. The single player actively commands the Soviet forces, while the rules system directs the player in the deployment of the Axis (German, Italian and Hungarian) forces. The player wins by accumulating victory points by achieving the destruction of Sixth Army’s component corps and the seizure of key areas around the map.”

Future Releases:

Modern War #17 - Dien Bien Phu

“Dien Bien Phu (Solitaire) is a wargame covering the decisive battle of the First Indochina War in which elite French Expeditionary Force units defended an air-land base against the communist Viet Minh. The game covers the critical period of Viet Minh assaults and French counterattacks of March to May, 1954. Historically, the Viet Minh won the battle, overrunning the base. This led to the collapse of the French position in Indochina and eventual US involvement in Vietnam.”

Modern War #18 - Green Beret: Vietnam

“Green Beret: Vietnam (Solitaire) gives you command of a Green Beret team in the Central Highlands before and during the Vietnam War. Your duty is to lead your men on a variety of randomly generated missions (representing orders direct from high command), choose weapons and equipment that are best suited for the mission, decide on how to posture your team, plan your approach, and a method of extraction.”

Modern War #20 – Drive on Baghdad: 2003

“Drive on Baghdad: 2003 is a solitaire game in which the player takes command of Central Command Forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Your goal is to defeat Saddam Hussein’s forces in such a manner as to prevent a post-campaign insurgency from breaking out.”

Modern War #21 – Kandahar: Special Forces in Afghanistan

“Kandahar: Special Forces in Afghanistan (Solitaire) gives you command of a Special Forces team in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2013. Your lead your men on a variety of randomly generated missions; you choose your weapons and equipment, decide on how to posture your team, and plan your approach and method of extraction.”

World at War #43 – Patton’s Third Army

“Patton’s Third Army is a solitaire game system where the player takes command of General George Patton’s Third Army during the campaign across France in 1944. The game begins immediately following the Falaise Battle and continues through to 15 December, at which point Third Army was sent to fight In the Battle of the Bulge. Your goal as a player is to surpass Patton’s original record, thereby possibly forestalling Germany’s Ardennes Offensive and thereby gaining glory as a great general.”

World at War #44 – Night Fight: Solitaire East Front Tactics

“Night Fight: Solitaire East Front Tactics is a solitaire wargame in which you command a Kampfgruppe group of German panzers infiltrating and attacking Soviet forces at night while the system runs the Soviet forces. The first scenario is based on an actual night action from the Battle of Kursk during elements of 6th Panzer Division infiltrated behind Soviet lines. There are also several other scenarios representing other night fights on the eastern front in 1943.”

World at War #45 – Panzers East Solitaire

“Panzers East Solitaire (PES) is simulation that covers the advance of Germany’s Army Group Center, starting on the first day of Operation Barbarossa and potentially extending to the last day of August later that same summer. The design supports both strict historical and alternative history explorations. That is, at the end of July, when the AGC offensive was historically shut down in favor of supporting extended drives by the flanking army groups, it’s possible that, if you’ve done better up to then than your historical counterpart, Hitler may authorize a continued and immediate advance on Moscow. You command the German forces while the system directs the handling of Soviet forces. You win or lose based on the timely seizure of key areas on the map.”

Be seeing you

Sapper

Whimsical Wednesday - Mickey Mouse Riot Police

I don't know if I should be laughing or be worried....

By Bopchara (Link)

2015 Commitments

So, let’s look towards my goals and hopes for my 2015 commitments.  Part of my issues on some of these will be that I probably be working out of town most, if not all, of the year with one or two weekends a month home.

Personal Related:

• Change my diet / eating habits to lose weight and become more health oriented.
• Try to exercise more, mainly by walking
• Try to clear out more items from my aunt’s house and get a Building Inspector to find what needs to be corrected for possibly renting it out or selling it
• Go back to cleaning up my basement
• Try to get rid of more books and start reducing my CD & DVD collections

Entertainment Related:

Read / listen to a minimum of 24 books by the end of the year, especially since I am not planning to read many novellas or essays this year.  Specially, I want to finish reading the current Ridgeway book that I am reading and finish off the other two that are on my list to read on the same subject.  I also plan to read a couple of books on WW1, some books on the Argentine side of the Falklands conflict, and to finish off the Ian Fleming’s James Bond series.  After that, my main goal is to read the four volume opus by Bruce Nichols’ Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri (just over 1600 pages including notes & indexes!)

I play to track on my blog’s 2015 Commitments page also all of the radio plays / dramas and movies that I watch as well.  I am sort of interested in see how many different things that I watch / listen to as well.  The catch will be that I will only list it one time if I listen / watch it multiple times. 

Traveling to site-see or visiting local sites will be at a minimum this year as I plan to spend most of my free time and time off working on my aunt’s house or my house.  However, I do plan to go to the Missouri History Museum to see the Utopia: Revisiting the German State in America exhibit.  Otherwise, anything else will not be planned.

Gaming Related:

Here is where I am going to make up a bunch of wild and out-right lies.  I know that I am lying to myself, but here we go!

My basement gaming table is one of my top priorities for 2015.  I want to get everything cleared off that I got on it, which really is not much, but I need to sort, inventory, and bag it for selling instead of just sweeping it in to a trash can.  I think I can realistically do it in two days, if I can only commit myself to it when I am back at home.

Continue on with my 15mm Ridgeway project in painting my Canadians and start repainting my Fenian figs.  Next I am going to lay out a scale map and see what I need for terrain to make this a playable game prior to the 150^th anniversary of the battle in 2016.

I am planning to restart my 15mm ACW project this year too.  I am going to try to mirror it when I start reworking on my Fenians for Ridgeway. 

If I get my Ridgeway project near completion, I might start back up my 1/6000 Falklands Conflict naval project.   This should be an easy painting project due to the smallest of the models.

I plan to start working / buying up more terrain.  This will be pretty restrictive as I will really only be able to do it the weekends I am home since I will be limited to how much space I can pack of gaming items that will need to  be transported back with me in my car at the end of the out of town project.

I am hoping to run at least three games this year: a 20mm Falklands game, a 10mm Vietnam game, and the third to be determined later, but I am thinking of running an ACW game using paper figures from Billy Bones Workshop until my 15mm ACW figures are done.

Due to other commitments for spending free time on cleaning out my aunt’s house and other projects around the house, I am not planning to attend any gaming conventions this year.

I will start back up on my downsizing of my dead gaming projects and try to get back to selling stuff off, but if I am out of town for most of the year, I might only try to sell off only a small amount periodically as I will be limited to what I can carry with me in the car along with all of my important items (clothes, cooking ware, etc.)

One thing that will be good this year is I will have my house finally paid off!  So now I have what I have being using to pay my mortgage can be spent on other things.  Most of it will go to making sure my aunt’s house will pass inspections, increase in my insurance for a second home, extra property taxes, etc. and another large chunk will go to savings, but I should have extra cash for gaming.  I am probably going to start buying more pre-made terrain, especially snow/winter as I really don’t have any of that.   Then I probably start sending stuff off again for painting commissions. 

Finally, new projects – I am planning to avoid doing any new projects this year.  Yeah, I tend to break this one every year, but I am trying to really mean it.  I am going to only buy things to finish off or add to existing projects.  The only exception that I might make is breaking down and buying the 28mm Perry’s ACW / British Intervention figures to do Ridgeway in a larger scale.  I guess one could argue that this would be a new project, but I am looking at it as an extension to my existing project…but there are no plans to buy the figures now.

As always…cheers!

Sapper

A Year in Review: 2014

Well, another year as come and gone and a lot of broken resolutions from 2014 were never made.  So with tears in my eyes, lets cover what I resolved in January of 2014, copied right off from my entry in January in Italics, and my end-of-year answers in red:

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Personal:

Weight loss: To weigh 10 lbs lighter by the end of year, but to strive for more. Yeah, this was an epic failure.  I gained weight.  I have since lost some of it, but not the 10 lbs that I wanted.

Orienteering Society:  If I am relocated to a major city that has an orienteering society, I will join it and be involved in at two events, more if possible  Never even tried...sigh

Clearing out the house:  I will take a week off in March/April/May, weather & job dependent, and get a “Got Junk” dumpster delivered to get the old furniture out of the basement & garage, then go to my aunt’s and do the same in her garage.  Sadly, this came too true.  I did get a truck load of junk out of my basement and garage in the Spring (roughly 400 cubic feet of crap!)  However, with my aunt passing away during the summer, we also had to get rid of a lot more at her house then what I was planning.  I still have much more to go through.

Inventory / Sell books:  Complete my inventory and sell/give away to charity at least two banker boxes of books Sadly, again this was not completed in some ways, but like the one above, it was more than what I wanted to do.  I did not complete my inventory, but did give away one banker box of books to troops overseas.  My aunt was avid reader too and we have been giving away most of her books.

Record with books I read:  Record which books I read over the year for a review at the end of the year. Done and also started to add audio books & plays to my list later.  I read / listen to a total of 52 books, essays, thesis's, novels, and novellas.  Of which 33 were Non-Fiction and 19 were Fiction, which almost gives me a 3:2 ratio, which is highly unusual for me as it normally more like 5:1.  I think that it was mainly due to the fact that majority of the Fiction books were novellas, instead of novels, making them a much faster read.

Blog:  Make at least one post a month, but with the goal of doing three a month.  The subject and length is not important, get me to keep with some regular activity is important. Sort of made it.  Some months were less than 3, others were more than 3.  As an overall goal of 36 entries for a year, I had 37 total.  Unfortunately, several of them were about my aunt's illness and death, followed by the rioting & looting in Ferguson only 2 to 3 miles away. 

Sight-Seeing/Events: Go to the 150^th Anniversary of the Battle of Pilot Knob, Missouri.  Also visit the Cahokia mounds.  Take one week off to travel to both western Missouri and eastern Kansas for the 150^th Anniversary of the Civil War’s Price’s great raid, plus Bleeding Kansas sites, or travel down to eastern Arkansas and western Tennessee and Mississippi to see various Civil War sites.  If the finances and work are good, take one week off to go to New England to see American Revolutionary sites and Lovecraft’s territory. Happily, the main event was successful and I did get to go to Pilot Knob to see the 150th anniversary with Steve H & Pat L.  I also did get to see a battlefield for Black Jack in Kansas and the 150th anniversary reenactment at Fort McAllister, GA.  Besides that, I worked in Richmond, VA, for two weeks and got to visit the Edgar Allen Poe Museum & the Tredegar Iron Works Historical Site.  While at home, I got to go to the newly opened Civil War Museum in historical Jefferson Barracks; went to a Civil War book signing at the Soldier's Memorial and along with a nice historical walk of downtown St Louis with Steve H & his bother Phil H; sat on a lecture from Dr Mark A Lause about his book on Gen. Price's failed 1864 invasion of Missouri, as well as a lecture from James W Erwin on his two book series on the guerrilla war in Missouri; and finally, I went and saw the Prohibition exhibit while it was in St Louis.

Game Related:

Gaming area:  After the removal of the junk furniture in the basement, clear off my table space and run a game at my house no later than June 7, 2014 (incidentally, I am planning to run a D-Day game on that day for the 70^th Anniversary), but earlier would be better.  Sadly, another failure as I only ran one game and have not finished clearing off my table in the basement, even if it is almost done.

Inventory/selling “Lead Mountain”:  To completely sell off everything 15mm WW2 that is not specifically for my core company size forces.  To completely sell off everything of my 10mm WW2 project, except specific pieces for display.  To completely sell off everything of my 15mm Plains Indian wars.  To start inventorying and selling off my 25mm projects/figures that are not part of any project that I really want to keep. Another complete failure.  I started to redo my inventory and create an Excel spreadsheet and give each baggy of items a code number so I could keep track of who bought it, did they pay, the tracking code for mailing (if any), and a record that I did get rid of it so I would not be looking for it again if I found an old list.  But with my aunt's illness and death, that project sort of came to a stop and I never got back to it.  I did however give the 15mm Plains Indians figures over to Steve H.

Painting:  Commission out my 25mm Winter War figures and finish off my 20mm projects first.  Anything beyond that will be part of my 15mm WW2 projects. Ha!  I only painted one (1!) figure this whole year and never sent anything off to be commissioned.  Epic failure!

20mm Anarchy in the UK project:  1) Buy the needed vehicles from BW Models before they close for good.  2) Buy more civilian vehicles from Oxford / other sources.  3) Finish making my base cover for the urban environment and have enough buildings done to do a 4’x4’ game in an urban area. See above

25mm Winter War project:  1) Build the bases for the forest sections and work on game mat. 2) Paint (or commission) at less one platoon for both sides (see above) See above

Run games:  Run at least four games, at least one at my house: 1) 20mm WW2 D-Day using TFL’s Chain of Command; 2) 20mm Falklands using TFL’s Chain of Command; 3) 20mm Anarchy in the UK to be determined (could be two platoons skirmish, Gangsters/Police, Humans/Zombies, etc); and 4) 10mm Vietnam using either Charlie Don’t Surf or Tour of Duty. I only got the 20mm Falklands game off (Link to the AAR).

1/6000 Falklands project:  Paint and base the ships I really want to start crying now...see above

15mm Ridgeway project:  Read Vronsky’s “Ridgeway” and take detailed notes. OK, I am reading Vronsky's book and taking notes.  Also the only figure I finish painting is for this project.  So I give myself a successful mark here.
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Well, there you have it, my Year in Review.  I am going to try to type up my 2015 commitments later tonight. 

Until then...be see you!

Sapper