The Imperial War Library Collection and Museum

           

My brother and I have a fairly large collection of military items that we have built up over several years and now keep together in our museum. Our collection now includes patches from  several army units including the 94^th infantry, 1^st corps infantry ,7^th corps, Patton’s  third army along with many more.  We also have service bars from world war two to the present day though we have identified only a few. Our most prized possessions however are our uniforms one of which is from the Vietnam war . Most though are more recent and are from Desert storm and Urgent fury. We have Army, Air force, and Marine uniforms though no Navy ones . My brother’s favorite uniform is a Marine digital camo circa 1991. My favorite one is from the Vietnam war and the former owner was in the third armored division. Most of our collection we got at a local military surplus store and from flea markets.                                                                              

 

      Our library consists of over 100 books and almost 150 hours of documentaries and other historical videos. Most of our books we get for 1.00 or 2.00 at our library resale room or at the Goodwill book store. Some of our books are 40 or more years old but are in good condition. We specifically collect material on World War Two and the America Civil War.

     We have built up our collection for almost five years and it has cost us a good deal but the result is pleasing and a very good source for finding out about wars and conflicts throughout the ages .  (article by Bear)

All About War Gaming

     My brother and I enjoy  different types of war games. One of our favorites is paper soldier war gaming . Paper soldier war gaming? What is that? Well, it is pretty self-explanatory. You can print paper soldiers at the Junior General website, included in this post. Junior General has war game rules , and all sorts of soldiers from Roman to modern times. Here are some picture of our paper soldiers.

Scottish Covenanters

 

Royalist Cavalry

 

German Motorcycle Troopers

      Paper soldiers are very fun to cut out and put together. Be sure to use cardstock when printing paper soldiers. It makes then stand up better.

     One thing we like about these soldiers is that they are easier to store than plastic soldiers, and we can get more variety.

     War games can be of any size from simple to complex and from any era of time. To play a game the following supplies are needed: ruler or yardstick to measure length of advancement and range of fire, dice to decide if the shooting, and an open floor or table.

                     GAME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (article by Artist)

http://www.juniorgeneral.org/

 

Centurions

     Of late, I've been making different weapons, helmets, and shields out of duct tape and wood. In this picture I am in my Roman outfit. The shield is very heavy since it is made from thick ply board. It's armbands are made from leather. The sword is made of scrap boards and duct tape. I made the helmet out of duct tape too. (article by Artist)

Prepared for Battle!



Hanging out with Tycho

     As  I said before I am interested in  astronomy and all things space related. Since I live in the northern hemisphere the night sky I see  is different from the southern hemisphere. My favorite objects to view are the moon and the big dipper constellation . Also interesting to view are the north star and the edge of the Milky way Galaxy.

      My telescope is a 50x magnification sky viewer  that I got as a “start of summer gift” . This fall I plan to get an Astroscan telescope so that I can view the planets of Mars, Venus ,and Saturn.  Tomorrow  night there is going to be an Extreme Supermoon.  If the weather is clear I plan to see it. (article by Bear)

My telescope came from Rainbow Resource

It is named Tycho Brahe!

 

Microscope Madness

On Wednesday I bought a microscope at Hobby Lobby. It was originally $89 , but I had a 40%  off coupon , and Momma  and I went half on the rest. My microscope is a Celestron . It  has  adjustable sighting and 3 different  objective lens. It’s even got a camera to take pictures of what you see inside! I plan to post some pictures when I figure it all out. (article by Artist)

My new MICROSCOPE!

I named it Anton Leeuwenhoek!
 

All Hail!

Hello!

We are two brothers , ages 12 and 13 who live in Arkansas and enjoy all things history related . Recently we have created the IMPERIAL WAR LIBRARY COLLECTION AND MUSEUM which collects books, videos, uniforms, badges and other military related items. We are also interested in botany and astronomy. In this blog we plan to show you a part of our Boyhood Days of Valor.