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Making my Bambu Mini pay for itself Part II	11	10 Oct 2026 4:51 p.m. PST
Forward to Richmond: The Virginia Campaign of 1862	3	19 Sep 2026 6:12 p.m. PST
Lincoln Had Almost No Navy in 1861 — So He Overruled	1	12 Sep 2026 1:59 p.m. PST
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Brown Water Navies - Roger C. Campbell rules	3	08 Aug 2026 10:56 a.m. PST
Thoroughbred Figures Reopens Website	14	24 Jul 2026 6:17 a.m. PST
Thoroughbred Figures Reopens Website f1/12	1	10 Jul 2026 9:07 p.m. PST
Clash of Arms in a Dire Strait	1	07 Jul 2026 7:43 p.m. PST
New 1/600 Ironclad KS	2	02 Jul 2026 7:41 p.m. PST
Ironclad Ambush: Confederates Strike Lincoln's	6	25 Jun 2026 4:54 p.m. PST
Late 19th Century Naval Guns in 25, 28 or 32mm?	8	10 Jun 2026 2:49 p.m. PST
USS Carondelet and City Class ships	9	15 May 2026 4:39 p.m. PST
Iron & Steel - Kearsarge	5	30 Apr 2026 7:30 p.m. PST
HMS Victory's Masts Removed	5	30 Apr 2026 8:31 a.m. PST
The Business of Blockade Running	1	28 Apr 2026 4:14 p.m. PST
Need French Warship Stats for Dahomey Wars Project at TVAG	35	25 Apr 2026 9:20 a.m. PST
The first Imperial Brazilian Ironclads	5	18 Apr 2026 4:41 p.m. PST
Sabine Pass – ACW Naval Playtest	3	17 Mar 2026 10:25 p.m. PST
Thoroughbred Figures Web Site Reopening	17	24 Feb 2026 5:33 a.m. PST
Incursion at Spencer's Farm..	1	31 Jan 2026 1:59 p.m. PST
Silent Passage	1	09 Jan 2026 10:10 p.m. PST
Scratchbuilding Protected Cruiser USS Atlanta in 28mm	14	16 Dec 2025 9:27 p.m. PST
It was a bad day for the Italian Navy...	7	11 Dec 2025 8:28 a.m. PST
Looking for some ACW riverine rules with some detail to them	12	04 Dec 2025 10:52 a.m. PST
Monitor vs Merrimack	5	03 Dec 2025 4:37 p.m. PST
What was the USN's finest moment?	43	25 Nov 2025 4:43 a.m. PST
Imperial Russian Costal Defense Monitor Novgorod	3	13 Nov 2025 8:59 a.m. PST
USS Queen of the West / Tyler / Sumter ?	6	10 Nov 2025 4:46 p.m. PST
“No Sailor but a Fool attacks a Fortress!….Again!	1	30 Oct 2025 4:21 p.m. PST
The US Navy’s post-Civil War Monitors	2	30 Oct 2025 8:42 a.m. PST
Playing surface color, brown or blue?	11	21 Oct 2025 5:29 a.m. PST
Ironclads vs. B Movies	8	04 Oct 2025 4:36 p.m. PST
Action along the Winnebago River	1	23 Sep 2025 1:39 p.m. PST
Uniform sources for Royal Navy uniforms - 1850 - 1870??	6	11 Sep 2025 9:21 p.m. PST
Thoughts on 1973 Ironclad by Guidon Games	12	05 Aug 2025 8:37 a.m. PST
Some Thoughts about Naval Wargaming	9	26 Jul 2025 4:10 p.m. PST
Looking for Rules for ACW / colonial era steam riverboats?	10	14 Jun 2025 10:53 a.m. PST
ACW Ironclads at Sea??	13	19 May 2025 4:47 a.m. PST
Is This Britain's Long-Lost Battleship?!	3	16 Apr 2025 10:17 a.m. PST
USA ships hunting CSA Raiders	7	09 Apr 2025 7:11 a.m. PST
Extra boats for my Confederate Navy	12	30 Mar 2025 6:28 a.m. PST
Good read from the CSA side	3	21 Mar 2025 10:24 a.m. PST
Brown Water Navy Miniatures?	7	18 Mar 2025 5:56 a.m. PST
What happened to Houston's Ships 1/1000 pre-Dreadnoughts?	10	31 Jan 2025 6:44 p.m. PST
Navwar - Tony Anderson	11	25 Jan 2025 9:14 a.m. PST
Forgotten American Innovator	1	22 Jan 2025 12:12 a.m. PST
Updating Ironclads	5	13 Jan 2025 4:55 p.m. PST
Huascar in 1:600	6	25 Dec 2024 8:42 p.m. PST
Dutch Ironclad Monitors	2	18 Dec 2024 12:11 p.m. PST
The Civil War and Revolutions in Naval Affairs...	7	25 Nov 2024 4:01 p.m. PST
sources for 1:1200 ironclads	9	11 Oct 2024 5:14 p.m. PST
Four different games in one day!	13	05 Oct 2024 5:01 p.m. PST
Question about speed up and down.	7	05 Oct 2024 4:23 a.m. PST
Dawn of Iron ACW Fort Henry AAR	3	22 Sep 2024 8:46 a.m. PST
More on Developing the Portable Ironclads Wargame	1	20 Sep 2024 5:16 p.m. PST
The Unfavorable Mortar Boats	1	13 Sep 2024 5:09 p.m. PST
Massive Nashcon Ironclad game!	10	02 Sep 2024 6:17 a.m. PST
Alligator Jr. located?	2	19 Aug 2024 1:41 p.m. PST
sink the Alabama	2	19 Aug 2024 1:39 p.m. PST
Civil War Ironclads lost at sea	12	17 Aug 2024 10:40 a.m. PST
‘Head Straight for the Enemy and Sink Him’	4	07 Aug 2024 11:06 a.m. PST
The Blockade of Confederate Ports, 1861–1865	3	27 Jul 2024 3:49 p.m. PST
Thoroughbred Figures Update and Delayed Reopening	12	22 Jul 2024 6:31 a.m. PST
Push on the Potomac 1863 (fictional)	3	04 Jul 2024 3:42 p.m. PST
28mm Ironclad	14	22 Apr 2024 5:54 p.m. PST
Developing the Portable Ironclads Wargame…	1	19 Apr 2024 4:43 p.m. PST
Monitor & the Turret Shield	3	29 Mar 2024 4:15 p.m. PST
Union use of ironclads on the open seas question??	15	29 Mar 2024 4:14 p.m. PST
ACW Dahlgren Boat Howitzer in 28mm	9	28 Mar 2024 12:03 p.m. PST
Trents Reach, INWarD 23	1	19 Mar 2024 4:30 p.m. PST
Mobile Bay, 5th August 1864, Dawn of Iron - DWG	5	28 Feb 2024 5:57 a.m. PST
ALNAVCO ever do a set of Civil War Ironclads rules?	5	25 Feb 2024 8:16 p.m. PST
UPDATE (2): David Manley	13	16 Feb 2024 2:34 p.m. PST
Ships vs Forts 1861: Off to the Races	5	13 Feb 2024 3:05 p.m. PST
New to the Period	7	09 Feb 2024 12:13 p.m. PST
Sail and Steam Navies Contact Information	8	29 Jan 2024 3:22 p.m. PST
About The CSS Selma	4	15 Jan 2024 3:39 p.m. PST
David Manley	18	09 Dec 2023 1:31 p.m. PST
UPDATE (1) ON DAVID MANLEY	4	06 Dec 2023 7:11 a.m. PST
Marine Corps Birthday	8	12 Nov 2023 7:14 a.m. PST
Thoroughbred Figures Temporary Closing Due to Relocating	2	02 Nov 2023 11:13 p.m. PST
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First Battle of Ironclads: Myths, Facts, What Ifs	1	24 Oct 2023 5:06 p.m. PST
navwar orders	6	18 Oct 2023 11:16 p.m. PST
The Build Goes Ever On and On….	3	11 Oct 2023 3:17 p.m. PST
smoke tutorial	5	07 Oct 2023 2:49 a.m. PST
The Soul of the Scratchbuilding Naval Wargaming Butterfly….	1	19 Sep 2023 8:53 p.m. PST
Shipwrecked Generals: Heroism, Sacrifice, and Survival	1	15 Aug 2023 8:42 p.m. PST
From Friends of the Hunley	1	08 Aug 2023 3:50 p.m. PST
Naval Campaign of the Second Mexican War	3	06 Aug 2023 3:25 p.m. PST
Robert Fulton & the First Steam Warship	1	28 Jul 2023 4:52 p.m. PST
About Naval Wargaming	9	10 Jul 2023 4:31 p.m. PST
Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives	5	03 Jul 2023 3:15 p.m. PST
Little Wars 2023 ACW Naval Games	2	02 Jul 2023 6:31 p.m. PST
1/600 Thoroughbred Ships	12	22 Jun 2023 11:33 a.m. PST
Anyone Familiar with Titan Resin ACW Ships in 1/1200?	7	15 Jun 2023 10:22 a.m. PST
The hunt for HMS Captain	4	08 Jun 2023 3:56 a.m. PST
The Battle of Lissa 1866 Review	5	02 Jun 2023 11:58 a.m. PST
A Perilous Voyage on the Kanawha: Jenkins Attacks	4	01 Jun 2023 12:24 p.m. PST
1/600 ACW Torpedo Craft	2	28 Apr 2023 12:24 p.m. PST