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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Harry Faversham on 03 October 2023, 01:20:40 PM

Title: Oosterbeek Crossroads.
Post by: Harry Faversham on 03 October 2023, 01:20:40 PM
Could be argued, this book published before Christmas 1944, began the Arnhem saga!

The table was set up to depict Oosterbeek crossroads, members of the XXI Independent Parachute Company supported by a section of Glider Pilots, are ordered to 'hold until relieved!'

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Title: Re: Oosterbeek Crossroads.
Post by: Ash on 22 October 2023, 10:01:10 AM
Just started reading the copy I bagged on eBay.
Couldn't find an early edition in good nick/good price, so got the later revised option with the added chapters from zee German POV. So far it's a captivating read...
Title: Re: Oosterbeek Crossroads.
Post by: Tom Dulski on 22 October 2023, 12:20:11 PM

 WOW, what are those terrain pieces? Are those vacuum formed? what scale?
Title: Re: Oosterbeek Crossroads.
Post by: Harry Faversham on 22 October 2023, 02:35:05 PM
Vacform, from the sixties. Originally it was a yard square set, with roads and rubble. Like a dick I cut it up into individual ruins, and forgot about 'em.
They look so different, and better than MDF, I resurerected 'em! If anyone's interested, I've written an AAR of the action?
 ::)
Title: Re: Oosterbeek Crossroads.
Post by: Harry Faversham on 22 October 2023, 02:45:02 PM
Quote from: Ash on 22 October 2023, 10:01:10 AM
Just started reading the copy I bagged on eBay.
Couldn't find an early edition in good nick/good price, so got the later revised option with the added chapters from zee German POV. So far it's a captivating read...

Ash, wot a shame yer in faraway Londinium, if yew were a tad nearer our pokey little seaside resort...
Wot a day we'd have, your Airborne worthies, again Von Richter's SS Panzergrenadiers!

 ;)
Title: Re: Oosterbeek Crossroads.
Post by: carlos marighela on 22 October 2023, 11:40:50 PM
Was the vac-form by Bellona by any chance? I recall ads for their products in the 1970s in Military Modelling and Battle.

By the by, if you build a Dutch crossroads, you'll need a Dutch Benny.  ;) Every village needs one. Mine has a fucking surfeit of them.
Title: Re: Oosterbeek Crossroads.
Post by: Tom Dulski on 23 October 2023, 01:04:39 AM

 Thanks
Title: Re: Oosterbeek Crossroads.
Post by: Harry Faversham on 23 October 2023, 10:44:29 AM
Quote from: carlos marighela on 22 October 2023, 11:40:50 PM
Was the vac-form by Bellona by any chance? I recall ads for their products in the 1970s in Military Modelling and Battle.

By the by, if you build a Dutch crossroads, you'll need a Dutch Benny.  ;) Every village needs one. Mine has a fucking surfeit of them.

No Carlos, I do recall it wasn't a Bellona product. We had a lot of Bellona stuff back then, walls, bridges and wotnot. Hard to come by these days, even on fleabay!

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