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Title: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on 20 April 2010, 10:06:13 PM
I've started painting up some of the Musketeer Miniatures 'British Milita' for our 1940 Operation Sealion games. They will make up the Market Blandings LDV to supplement the Foundry figures I already have.
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030113.jpg)
Jeeves and Wooster, of course.
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh135/Yankeepedlar01/WW%20II/P1030114.jpg)
Major,The Hon. Galahad Threepwood & Serg't Beech
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: Calimero on 20 April 2010, 10:07:52 PM

Really nice bunch 8)
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: Hammers on 21 April 2010, 09:07:16 AM
Much nice. I dig these minis.
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: Phil Robinson on 21 April 2010, 09:48:43 AM
The lengths that Lord Emsworth will go to protect his prize pig, Germans beware!

Stirling work.
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: Silent Invader on 21 April 2010, 10:32:29 AM
Very nice.  Especially like the tartan on the plus fours.
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: Helen on 21 April 2010, 11:31:58 AM
I suppose they aren't dress like the grenadier guards, but they do look the part for meeting the enemy for a cup of tea.

Great looking bunch there, well done Dave.

Helen
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: dm on 27 April 2010, 08:39:14 PM
Excellent work and be certain to give Jerry a jolly good bloody nose from me old chap :)

Love all the what if Operation Sealion stuff and anyone who knows me from Steve Dean's Forum will atest to my rantings on the subject :)

mmmmm........ now you have started me off again lol now just where did i put those German Paratroopers ???
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: ushistoryprof on 27 April 2010, 09:19:10 PM
Jeeves and Wooster, I love it.  Knowing our perfect Jeeves, I'm sure that each bullet in the Lewis gun has been polished to an appropiate shine.
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: Aaron on 28 April 2010, 01:58:52 PM
Loving Bertie's trousers, though I doubt Jeeves approves. It's simply not the thing for afternoon combat, wot?
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: joroas on 28 April 2010, 02:25:55 PM
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Loving Bertie's trousers, though I doubt Jeeves approves. It's simply not the thing for afternoon combat, wot?

I think the suit is okay for the country, but you know that the tie will not survive the next laundry day...........  lol
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: Arlequín on 09 May 2010, 09:55:00 PM
Nice work there!

I am surprised that this is the first time the 'VBCW' figures have turned up in the guise of Sealionesque militia/LDV though. I'd have imagined that an invasion in 1940 would have seen far more volunteers come forward than there were uniforms for them, and with a few exceptions, the IWI and other Interwar figures would be ideal.

Colonel Blimp will however be issuing a reprimand to their CO as they are all 'out of uniform' and in breach of the Geneva Convention.

(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:BWyBwdsNbnww3M:http://www.keepmilitarymuseum.org/homefront/images/ldv_armband.gif)

 ;)
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: M Blakey on 10 May 2010, 11:20:08 PM
like the guys on the top left waist coat  great work everytime!
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: oxiana on 11 May 2010, 10:57:54 AM
Wonderful stuff.  :)

God help the invading Hun when Aunt Agatha comes into play. "When Aunt Agatha wants you to do a thing you do it, or else you find yourself wondering why those fellows in the olden days made such a fuss when they had trouble with the Spanish Inquisition."

And please say that there'll be a Gussie Fink-Nottle, to constantly lose morale tests and get captured by the Germans!
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: joroas on 11 May 2010, 11:41:29 AM
Pulp Miniatures do some suitable figures.

http://www.pulpfigures.com/catcode.php?range=Gangland%20Justice&code=PGJ&number=14&custID=62171194451273574373

Listed as:

PGJ 14 - Upper-Crust Swells :Berty Brewster, Chives, Aunty Flo, Honoria Flum & Lord Flum

.... but we know better
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: ushistoryprof on 11 May 2010, 05:06:22 PM
Wonderful stuff.  :)

And please say that there'll be a Gussie Fink-Nottle, to constantly lose morale tests and get captured by the Germans!
With the dreaded "Newt Bomb of Doom"
Title: Re: Market Blandings LDV 1940
Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on 11 May 2010, 07:27:19 PM
I bought the Gripping Beast 'Chaps at the hunt' set at Carronade on Saturday to add a little 'Upper Crust' element to the LDV. For the past couple of Christmas games in GHQ we have had a Blandings castlt 'Pig Whooooey!' game, a sort of fun-no-firearms game. Perhaps this year the 1940 theme will rear its head as 'Adolph' tries to nobble the Empress of Blandings?