Welcome to Cold War Gamer, a blog I am using to record my Cold War wargaming projects. These range from fictitious Cold War hot projects to historical conflicts that took place around the globe throughout the Cold War era, all modelled and gamed in 20mm. The blog includes links to various resources useful to the Cold War Gamer.

My current projects include: Central Front; British & Soviet. South African Border War; Angolans and South Africans. Soviet Afghan War; Soviets and Afghans

Army Guides - Cold War British 1980s

The Purpose of this page is to bring together all the different posts that I have written around the British Army.  The posts on this page should provide a comprehensive guide to collecting building and organising a Cold War British Army of the 1980s


The page covers

  • Orbat - Organisational and Equipment detail for the Cold War British Army of the 1980's
  • Wargames Units - Eye Candy on the units produced and details on model and figure manufacturers
  • Modelling - Posts covering general modelling topics relevant to the Cold War British Army
  • Reviews - Reviews of Models, Figures, Books, Web Resources and Products used in producing the Army
  • Bibliography - The list of refernce books I have used are outlined in the Cold War British Reference books Link below.

Cold War British Reference Books

The British Army on the Central Front

The ORBAT posts provide an overview of the organisation and equipment of the army units and suggest ways these might be represented on the table top

ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 1, Armoured Divisions and Brigades
ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 2, Task Organisation
ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 3, Equipment Change
ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 4, Recce Group
ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 5, Artillery
ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 6, Royal Engineers
ORBAT - 1980's British BG Part 7, The Infantry Battalion
ORBAT - 1980's British, Army Air Corps Aviation Regiment
ORBAT - The RAF in Germany in the 1980s
ORBAT - 1980s British Air Defence
ORBAT - 1980's British BG, NATO and BAOR Reinforcement, Part 1 General
ORBAT - 1980's British BG, NATO and BAOR Reinforcement, Part 2 The Infantry Brigades
ORBAT- 1980's British BG, NATO and BAOR Reinforcement, Part 3. Infantry Battalion, Type A, Mech (Wh) and Light
ORBAT - NATO's Northern Army Group, 1 Br Corps Deployment

Wargames Units

The Wargames units show pictures and models from my collection representing units of the British Army in the Cold War.  The units are organised for Rapid fire using a vehicle scale of 1:3.  The posts also cover the manufacturers of the various vehicles and figures used.

Wargames Unit- British 1980's Tracked Rapier Battery
Wargames Unit - British 1980's BG Armoured Squadron, Challenger 1
Wargames Unit - British 1980's BG Armoured Squadron, Chieftain
Wargames Unit - British 1980's BG Support Company
Wargames Unit - British 1980's BG Mechanised Companies
Wargames Unit - British 1980's BG Abbot Battery
Wargames Unit - British 1980's BG Echelon

Modelling

The Modelling posts cover aspects of modelling the British Army of the period including painting DPM, making representative field defences and some scratch building projects.

Modelling - British Army Field Defences, Trenches

Reviews

The Reviews cover the Models and figures I have used to build my Cold War British Army, including issues associated with their construction, painting and the decals that have been used. Reviews on Books and Web resources cover information relevant to building a Cold War British Army whilst the products cover basing material and flight stands used.

Review - Model 1/72, Airfix Harrier GR3
Review - Model 1/72, Airfix AH1 Lynx 
Review - Model 1/72, Airfix FV107 Scimitar
Review - Model 1/72, Brittania FV 4201 Cheiftain
Review - Model 1/72, Brittania FV432
Review - Model 1/76, BW Models AT-105 Saxon
Review - Model 1/76, Cromwell Tracked Rapier
Review - Model 1/72, Revell FV 4030 Challenger 1
Review - Model 1/72, S&S M548
Review - Model 1/72 Airfix, Westland Aerospatiale Gazelle

Review - Figures 20mm, Elhiem Cold War British

Review- Book, Today's Army Air Corps, P Beaver, 1987
Review-Book, Iron Division, The History of the 3rd Division 1809-1989

Review - Web Resources, British Army Units since 1945
Review - Web Resources, SSVC on You Tube 
Review - Web Resources, Fire and Furry Cold War Orbats and Modern Resources
Review - Web Resources, M136 Exercise Picture Archive

Review - Product, East Riding MDF Bases
Review - Product, Coresec Flight Stands


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