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Author Topic: A quick layout dry run.( tsg's WW2 thread)  (Read 67201 times)

Offline Ewan

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Re: Early Morris CS8 ( Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.) 17/10
« Reply #270 on: October 17, 2020, 03:45:34 PM »
You've made my day  :-*

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(30/10)
« Reply #271 on: October 30, 2020, 07:13:27 PM »
Just a quick update Simon and Mick have released some of the civilian figures.

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(30/10)
« Reply #272 on: November 06, 2020, 11:24:03 PM »
Those are terrific - I have been tossing up between BEF + ancillaries from 1st Corps, and Empress Late War...   and those are weighing the scales.
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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(30/10)
« Reply #273 on: November 07, 2020, 01:30:37 AM »
Those are terrific - I have been tossing up between BEF + ancillaries from 1st Corps, and Empress Late War...   and those are weighing the scales.
I have a platoon. Worth of Empress Late war that I plane to paint up as a BUF storm company for a Dark Britain seting were the Germans won, or the Baddies won the Very British civil war. And I ordered some of the first corp civilians to populate the table.
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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(30/10)
« Reply #274 on: November 15, 2020, 02:42:59 PM »
There's a fair few more bits to come. Including two horse and carts set's for the refugees(already with Simon and Mick.).
I'm in the middle of the next chunk of sculpts. So I've not much in the way of spare time for my hobby at the moment.
But just to keep things ticking over here's a pick of a Motley Mount on the back of the Morris. I don't have a casting of a Tilly so I can't show you one in a tilly. Or the other versions as they're prepped for casting.

Offline Ewan

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(30/10)
« Reply #275 on: November 15, 2020, 02:53:11 PM »
I do like  :-*
Do you think there will be Home Guard crew for the horse and cart. Thanks

Offline Truscott Trotter

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(30/10)
« Reply #276 on: November 15, 2020, 11:53:49 PM »
Those are terrific - I have been tossing up between BEF + ancillaries from 1st Corps, and Empress Late War...   and those are weighing the scales.

Yeah if I hadn't already got 90% of my BEF I would go with 1st Corps

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(refugees update 21/11)
« Reply #277 on: November 21, 2020, 12:50:58 PM »
There's still 10% :D

Ewan ,
There's a lot of new stuff to come yet. Including a Home Guard taxi. As for a cart for the Home Guard I'd not considered one kayaks and row boats yes.But not carts.
Simon and Mick. Have added the carts and collaborators.
Plus a runaway couple thats a nod towards the Rat Runs.

Offline Ewan

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(refugees update 21/11)
« Reply #278 on: November 21, 2020, 03:40:52 PM »
Ewan ,
There's a lot of new stuff to come yet. Including a Home Guard taxi. As for a cart for the Home Guard I'd not considered one kayaks and row boats yes.

The tow boats  :-* as even seen some excellent pictures of waterborne Home Guard units.

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(refugees update 21/11)
« Reply #279 on: November 22, 2020, 01:06:12 PM »
It wouldn't be far off the mark . To say There's an uncanny resemblance to something I've made.  ;)

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(refugees update 21/11)
« Reply #280 on: November 23, 2020, 03:02:37 PM »
Bizarrely, I saw a picture of a HG Taxi the other day and thought of you....

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(refugees update 21/11)
« Reply #281 on: November 23, 2020, 04:32:41 PM »
That'll amuse her in doors. I remind Jon of a ninety year old taxi  lol.

Here's one of the reference pictures I used.

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(refugees update 21/11)
« Reply #282 on: November 23, 2020, 04:50:03 PM »
 lol

Yeah, that's the one I saw

Offline Ewan

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(refugees update 21/11)
« Reply #283 on: November 23, 2020, 05:07:53 PM »
There is also this photo of the London Taxi Battalion Home Guard

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Re: Tin sheds Homefront & ww2.(Standard Beaverette update 13/12)
« Reply #284 on: December 14, 2020, 12:02:29 AM »
Ewan dropped me a line to let me know that Simon and Mick have released two crew version's of the. Standard Beaverette

Since I replied I've had a few more e-mail's. Of a gentle rivet counting nature.
Asking why I gave it an armoured Visor over the driver's position ? Short Answer is I didn't. ;)
I haven't spoken to Simon or Mick since it's release. But if was a modification added to several car's in several different formats either with hinges or simple horizontal sliding plate. Both methods could be inside the cab or external. It gave me a headache so Left theses options off the model.Simon and Mick have added an optional plate into the kit.
Another modification was the enlargement of the driver's observation slit.( visible in one of the pic's) and or an additional gunners port/vision slit.
I know most people only think of these being a short lived expediency in England. But they literally turned up all across the Commonwealth in the form of regional copies. So they'll work for Australian civil War games without much of push since there's photographs of them in Newzealand and Fiji .
Plus you can play fast an loose with German crew's too as one appears in the wartime movie' The Silver Fleet ' doubling for a German Armoured car in Holland. ;D
( I no longer have a copy of any images of the Newzealand versions which were local builds rather than the Standard motor car chassis . However I did come across one image on a forum so out fairness I've included as a screen shot with the original post attached.)
« Last Edit: December 14, 2020, 12:17:15 AM by tin shed gamer »

 

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