Like almost all older wargamers, I have a stack of old wargame magazines squirreled away. My collection includes three complete volumes of MINIATURE WARFARE that I acquired some years ago courtesy of David Crook.

The volumes that I own are:

• Volume One (Issues 1 to 12): Issues 1 to 5 have card covers and are priced at 4/- and Issues 6 to 12 are printed on glossy paper and priced at 3/6.
• Volume Two (Issues 1 to 12):: Issues 1 to 4 are priced at 3/6 and Issues 5 to 12 are priced at 85C (US cents). All issues are printed on glossy paper.
• Volume Three (Issues 1 to 12): All priced at 4/- or 20 np (New Pence) or 85c (US cents). All issues are printed on glossy paper.

.John Tunstill was the editor and publisher, and the magazine was available from Benares Road, Plumstead, London, SE18 … which is just over a mile from where I live! (The last issue of Volume Three included a note that the publication address was changing to Burnley Road, Stockwell, London, SW9.)

Flicking through these magazines, its interesting to note that names of some of the contributors to the first three year’s issues: Phil Barker, Tony Bath, John Davis, Andy Grainger, Charles Grant, Peter Gilder, Paddy Griffith, George Gush, Bish Iwaszko, Duncan Macfarlane, David Nash, Bob O’Brien, Charles Reavely, Stuart Reid, John Sandars, Jack Scruby, Ed Smith, and Malcolm Woolgar, It’s quite some list of early wargamers who all played their part in the development of the hobby in the UK!

The content was somewhat different from the sort of stuff one finds in the three modern mainstream glossy wargame magazines, and included some quite technical articles.

I have several articles clipped from later issues of MINIATURE WARFARE, including three by the late Bish Iwaszko about an imaginary Allied invasion of the Cherbourg Peninsula. Looking at the photographs, I remember how inspired I was by them when I first saw them.