My butterfly mind has alighted upon another succulent flower. (Would it be succulent? Note to self - look up dictionary definition of "succulent".)

Last night I was watching a program about the sinking of the US battleship Maine off Cuba in 1898. The US press whipped it up as a attack by a Spanish mine. The US went to war, Teddy Roosevelt ran up a hill with some uncouth gentlemen, and America took an empire in the Pacific off the Spanish.

Turns out (accoprding to this film I was watching) that the Maine may have blown up because of a explosion in the coal bunker - which was right next to the magazine.

The Hamlyn book of "fighting Men and their Uniforms" (1971) had a section on the Spanish-American war, which intrigued me as a child.

So, Moderators, Gentlemen and Lurkers of the Forun,  has anyone essayed the Spanish American war in 10mm? Any hints or tips? I'm thinking Boers or even ACW for the figures?

Quote from: fsn on 30 January 2017, 08:14:42 AM
My butterfly mind has alighted upon another succulent flower. (Would it be succulent? Note to self - look up dictionary definition of "succulent".)

Definitely!  Whilst vegetative propagation is more common in horticultural terms, all plants commonly referred to as succulents (eg cacti, aloes, euphorbias, etc) are capable of flowering under the appropriate condition 

Cheers!

Meirion

The chap second from the right looks like a German tart who lived opposite the barracks, specialised in 'correction', I could look out my old polaroids and see what uniform she was wearing ... or have i picked you up incorrectly ?

May have missed the mark somewhat.

But if you could find the polaroids, my butterfly mind my alight elsewhere.

Venus Fly Trap ?

No thanks, I've given up!

Speaking of succulent American warships this headline recently caught my eye:
https://news.usni.org/2016/12/21/interview-capt-james-kirk-uss-zumwalt

Quote from: cameronian on 30 January 2017, 01:57:38 PM
Venus Fly Trap ?

Beautiful petals the Venus Flytrap - and you should see the anthers 

Ah! If only there was someone on the forum who knew about carniverous plants  

So, not a lot further on my Spanish-American War request then?

"Space, the final front ear. Theeeeese are the voyages of the starship Zumwalt .."  Loses something, doesn't it?

I have some interest in pre-dreadnaught battleships and a Teddy figure with a toothy grin (like Disney's version of the Cheshire Cat) would be interesting to own in 10mm. The American adventures in the Phillipines and Nicaragua could also be covered. Still too many interested and to little time left. Do not want to lose my focus on - dare I say it - Aztecs! 

Oh I think that's a focus you can easily lose!

This is your history, Man! You have so little of it, you don't want to be wasting your time on some stone wagglers.

Quote from: fsn on 30 January 2017, 04:35:37 PM
Ah! If only there was someone on the forum who knew about carniverous plants  

What do you want to know ? (Or have I already told you I used to grow them, as a hobby ?)

How it takes two triggers to be 'tripped', for the trap to close......and then yet more triggering before the leaves actually flatten together to 'squish' what's in the trap.
(This lets small insects, like ants, escape.....'Cos it's a waste of the Venus Fly Trap's 'energy' to bother 'eating' something so small.
I used to buy oodles of small carnivorous plants......Get them up to a decent size, and then sell them back to the Garden Centre, at a good profit.

Cheers - Phil

I am doing it in 1/3000 scale.....well the naval side anyway 

Not just going to refight Manila and Santiago de Cuba as too one sided. S and T did a good campaign style game in the 1980s (issue #108) and I am going to use that to do some what if games.

Quote from: fsn on 30 January 2017, 05:11:00 PM
This is your history, Man!

True, but I take a long range (some would say "adoptive") view of History. This means that "your" History is "our" History from say the Iron Age hill forts in Wiltshire to a hot and humid July afternoon in Philadelphia in 1776. 

In the same way, as a West (by God) Virginian, "our" History goes back to the establishment of the Jamestown colony in 1607.
By adoption, we can include in "our" History also  the Adena Mound Builders which pushes things back to as early as 1000 BCE.

So as you can see I am quite in the midst of things 

I have to admit that the late Victorian/Edwardian is endlessly fascinating, just as the T-35 model nearly seduced me into armored fighting vehicles!

No one's going to shift me from BC and AD - take offence all you like, but Europeans came up with it based on Christianity, then stamped it worldwide with running lapdog imperialism. It happened, we got there first, tough turnips!