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Title: the winter of 79
Post by: swiftnick on 10 July 2010, 11:40:06 AM

Chaps can I draw you attention to an interesting new blog charting the history of the British civil wars 1979 onwards.
http://winterof79.blogspot.com/

Title: Re: the winter of 79
Post by: Captain Blood on 10 July 2010, 12:59:07 PM

That'd be ECW4 then  ;)

Interesting idea indeed...

Title: Re: the winter of 79
Post by: Thunderchicken on 10 July 2010, 01:17:56 PM

A very interesting idea indeed. That's tonight's reading sorted. 

Title: Re: the winter of 79
Post by: commissarmoody on 11 July 2010, 12:34:25 AM

Oh! this might just be what I need to get my Punk friands in on some Gameing.  lol

Title: Re: the winter of 79
Post by: Westfalia Chris on 11 July 2010, 12:29:36 PM

"A Very British Coup!"

(http://www.channel4.com/assets/programmes/images/a-very-british-coup/5298e59e-d56c-47cc-94e2-63deb5668c22_625x352.jpg)

;)

So when are Moscow's Peace Troops scheduled to move in?

Title: Re: the winter of 79
Post by: gloriousbattle on 14 July 2010, 02:42:01 AM

I keep telling myself I'm going to do something along these lines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_j3sgfaGg

Wouldn't be too hard, I think.  Take some WWII British, and make removable Yorkist and Lancastrian decals for them, maybe even a couple of flags to give a nice Hollywood impression, and I'd be set to go.

Title: Re: the winter of 79
Post by: Red Orc on 18 July 2010, 06:33:16 PM

I've got some Warzone figures like these guys:

(http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm219/redorc01/warzone_soldier4.jpg)

(http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm219/redorc01/warzone_soldier3.jpg)

that I'm thinking of using for a McKellern 1930s Richard III style VBC thing, but not for a late '70s version. That would be more flying squads of miners in Ford Cortinas battling it out with police in Panda cars and the odd Jag. Like The Sweeney meets Boys from the Blackstuff. What a whacky concept, I might have to do it now.

Thinking about it I remember a manufacturer in the 1980s had some figs for Unemployed Class Warrior and Evil Thatcher Clone and a Scargiloid, or similar... I'll have to try and find out who it was.

Title: Re: the winter of 79
Post by: abhorsen950 on 18 July 2010, 06:42:43 PM

Looks superb to me

Title: Re: the winter of 79
Post by: gloriousbattle on 18 July 2010, 11:49:57 PM

Quote from: Red Orc on 18 July 2010, 06:33:16 PM

I've got some Warzone figures like these guys<SNIP>

Definitely nice figs, but I'm not sure what you are planning to do.  Some kind of Post-apocalyptic English Civil War?  That'd be pretty cool!

Title: Re: the winter of 79
Post by: Red Orc on 19 July 2010, 11:47:13 AM

It's for an alternate-universe 19th/20th century timeline. It's 'like' VBCW but as if that 20s-30s period follows on from a steampunk 19th and deiselpunk early 20th. It's a kind of grimy Pulp 1930s if that makes any sense.

But I fear we're derailing the 1979 thread - sorry!