Back then there was no internet, no Digital Cameras! This was I think a Minolta SR101 with a close up lens.
My first painted figures were D&D figures followed quickly by GHQ micro Armor and exposure to Historical Wargaming. The Game below was my introduction to “Tank Charts” written by HMGS/PSW chapter founder Brian Stokes. Brian ran this game at one of the early Los Angeles Airport conventions. The trees were “nails” pounded into Plywood!
My first Historical Wargame. The Russian commander ponders his move options after my “Tiger 1” destroyed the first tanks in his column!
The German AFV’s made short work of the Russian column, if I remember the Russian side gave up at this point!
This is perhaps the first photograph of some of my mini’s taken around 1984? GHQ WWII micro armor!
This is a one of my first efforts at doing terrain boards back it the 80’s. Ceiling tiles with paper mache hills, valleys, ridges, ect… all covered with fiberglass resin to help durability. Also some of my plane stands. Pretty common now, but ground breaking stuff back then when most folks were using old sheets and tape roads!
A German JU88 attacks a Russian armored force.
Back in the early 80’s we had a very active group of Micro Armor guys playing at the “Last Grenadier’s” in both Glendale and Reseda. I built the first sand table used at the Reseda Grenadier and later moved to the Glendale store.
Some of my GHQ 1/285 scale tigers advance on the Reseda Sandtable!
I went on location with my job working on Magnum PI in Hawaii, There I met some local military guys who did Mustangs and Messerschmidt’s at Wheeler Air Force Base Library. To build my plane I bought my first airbrush there a Badger 200 that after several rebuilds is still serving me well today!
Paul J. Baker runs the JU52 in a Mustangs and Messerschmidt’s at Wheeler AFB in Hawaii
Some of first and fondly remembered games. This was I think “Shoot down the Fuhrer”
I Think the Spitfire is mine, my first plane in a M&M game.
They were a great group, I’ve forgotten many
names…..
These were the early days of M and M and we loved it!
This is what we did before Computers to simulate WWII air combat! It’s still fun for many reasons!
