On The Day, Went The Eagle's Landing Well?

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Pez dispenser?

Nice one, voltan, I like that idea!

Nicely done and it really does show up how much better the old Wargames Foundry sculpts were than the WL versions of the same subject matter.

Quite agree carlos, I have both but the Foundry ones are just like the real thing!

Ah, my bad, I thought you meant the manufacturer of the figure. In that case, who makes Stahl?

No problem, Poiter50.  Stahl is from Warlord, the Blood Red Skies ace figure, Adolf Galland.



P.S. In respect of the origins of this forum I intend not to display any forbidden symbols. I would be very happy for people to point out any omissions in my pictures, thanks.

[Poiter50]

Ah, thank you, nice imaginative use.

No problem, Poiter50.  Stahl is from Warlord, the Blood Red Skies ace figure, Adolf Galland.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Today, I have for you the Women's Land Army. As most of you will know, the WLA was disbanded at the end of the First World War but was reformed in 1939. The aim was to release male agricultural workers for military service and replace them with women. The women were usually called Land Girls. The land Girls would normally work 50 hours a week and were paid 28 shillings a week. The average wage for male agricultural workers was 38 shillings per week.



Five WLA girls have been assigned to work at Cold Comfort Farm, near Much-Piddling. Madeline Bassett thinks she has seen a Jerry parachutist (disguised as a nun) land behind the pig sty. Boldly, she leads the other girls out to investigate, armed with their shotguns.

L-R: Lady Florence Craye, Stephanie 'Stiffy' Pinker, Honoria Glossop, Roberta 'Bobbie' Wickham, Madeline Bassett.

[gweirda]

L-R: Lady Florence Craye, Stephanie 'Stiffy' Pinker, Honoria Glossop, Roberta 'Bobbie' Wickham, Madeline Bassett.

So...Jeeves won't be far behind?

...and will Spode lead a band of Nazi sympathizers?

[Volleyfire!]

Having seen the Land Girls I think Stahl is possibly having to use his inhaler?  

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Having seen the Land Girls I think Stahl is possibly having to use his inhaler?  

Yes, I think Stahl is getting a little bit over-excited about the Land Girls!   

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

...and will Spode lead a band of Nazi sympathizers?

Now it's funny you should say that, gweirda!

Down at the Old Mill on the outskirts of Much-Piddling, Spode's Black Shorts are having a clandestine meeting. Well about as clandestine as you can get with red armbands and footer-bags! Spode's latest policy is to ensure that every citizen at birth be given a British–made bicycle and umbrella. Now that invasion has become a reality, Spode's Black Shorts are an illegal organisation but the Flying Squad have not caught up with Spode, yet!

L-R:  Lord Haw-Haw (awaiting flag), Unity Valkyrie Mitford, Sir Roderick Spode (Lord Sidcup), Diana Mitford, Sir Osbert Molesworth (with abject apologies to Plynkes).



Spode has chosen black shorts (or skirts) for his followers because, as Gussie Finknottle says, "by the time Spode formed his association, there were no shirts left".

Bertie Wooster has some choice words to say about Spode and his Black Shorts "It is about time, that some public-spirited person came along and told you where you got off. The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?'"

[Plynkes]

How dare you! I'm calling my effing lawyer! That's defamation, that is!

 

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

How dare you! I'm calling my effing lawyer! That's defamation, that is!

 

My abject apologies, Sir! I was having great difficulties finding miniatures wearing footer-bags!   

[Plynkes]

No, I love it. I was going to do the same with one of mine. I always thought he looked that sort. But I don't need to now, as you've done a top job yourself.


The moustache is a lovely touch, I hadn't thought of that. I have in the past briefly left myself a toothbrush moustache when shaving, just for a few minutes. Simply because seeing yourself with one is just about the most hilarious free laugh you can get. Who would have thought that the simple act of cutting some of the hair off your face could leave you in hysterics for several minutes.


Went the Day Well? was shown at my local volunteer-run old-timey picture house a couple of years ago. I went with my brother, thinking we would be the only ones there, but a busload of re-enactors showed up, all in costume and in a 1940s bus. Civvies, Home Guard, ARP wardens, coppers, the lot. It was fantastic. Great film, too.

[Silent Invader]

This is coming along great Martin 

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

This is coming along great Martin 

Many thanks, Steve. More to come soon...............

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

No, I love it. I was going to do the same with one of mine. I always thought he looked that sort. But I don't need to now, as you've done a top job yourself.


The moustache is a lovely touch, I hadn't thought of that. I have in the past briefly left myself a toothbrush moustache when shaving, just for a few minutes. Simply because seeing yourself with one is just about the most hilarious free laugh you can get. Who would have thought that the simple act of cutting some of the hair off your face could leave you in hysterics for several minutes.


Went the Day Well? was shown at my local volunteer-run old-timey picture house a couple of years ago. I went with my brother, thinking we would be the only ones there, but a busload of re-enactors showed up, all in costume and in a 1940s bus. Civvies, Home Guard, ARP wardens, coppers, the lot. It was fantastic. Great film, too.

I do have to say that when I trim my beard I always leave a pair of mutton-chop whiskers! Makes me laugh but my wife hates it!

Went the Day Well? is one of my favourite films (along with Ice Cold in Alex) and is one of the inspirations behind the scenario I am building for this game. It must have been great watching it with re-enactors in costume, great stuff. Two other films are contributing as well.

[Wellington Bonaparte]

This thread is amazing, love the minis you've painted (particularly the black shorts) but the joining together of such iconic films as the Eagle has landed,  went  the day well with dads army is sheer brilliance. Can't wait to read an AAR and see some photos of how it played out. My money is on the land girls sorting out Spode and the black shorts 

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

This thread is amazing, love the minis you've painted (particularly the black shorts) but the joining together of such iconic films as the Eagle has landed,  went  the day well with dads army is sheer brilliance. Can't wait to read an AAR and see some photos of how it played out. My money is on the land girls sorting out Spode and the black shorts 

Thanks, you obviously have the same eccentric sense of humour as myself!   

The game takes place in late November and the AAR will indeed appear here afterwards.

The Land Girls will be a formidable force at close range with their shotguns. If Spode enters their line of sight I suspect his black shorts will be peppered with shot!