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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: The Gray Ghost on 22 July 2010, 12:04:19 AM
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Are You painting Your non BUF forces in uniform color or in street clothes?
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I am panting mine in drag :D
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"In drag"
OOH
Vegas showgirl or housewife?
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Well I useally do the Housewife, but on holidays I will spice it up as a showgirl.....the mins not myself ::)
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It would depend on the miniatures, but inevitably there are some military style accoutrements on the most civilian of figures.
Well I useally do the Housewife, but on holidays I will spice it up as a showgirl.....the mins not myself ::)
You just keep telling yourself that... anyway it's ok to be, erm, different, I mean some guys dress up like soldiers to play their games, so it's not so strange, right? ... probably. :?
:D
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Well my gaming group also dose Civil war and Roman reenacting. And talk like a pirate day is coming up in september...Any guess as to what ever one dress's up for on that day?
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Let me guess...
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KO4lwcnBZ9A/ScssgQugADI/AAAAAAAAEVU/dBz1qXARD2M/s400/keira+pirates.jpg)
Anyway, we're digressing as usual. :D
VBCW forces of whatever faction are a mix of Regular/Territorial units in their pre-war uniforms and Militia units in various degrees of civilian/military dress. While some folk seem to separate these into units of one type, there's no reason why you can't mix them within a unit. Anything goes really, but the 'culture' seems to be that irregular units of low quality are the 'in' thing to have in preference to more military types.
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I've always imagined that the forces loyal to the govt of Edward and Mosley would have access to the resources of the British empire, so would be equipped and dressed in fairly uniform manner, with late 1930s British weapons and kit.
The anti-crown forces vary from local defence force in civilian clothes and imporvised weapons to the better soviet equipped forces known in the source books as People's Assault Columns. Some people use figures designed for the Russian Cvil War, but I don't think that is quite right. Even pro-soviet British forces would still be dressed in British working men's clothes or would try to conform with what British culture in the period suggested a soldier should look like. But that's just my view.
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While I think that would be largely true, you also have to take into account fashion and style. The BUF certainly went for a 'New Order' uniform, which had a few nods to German and Italian uniforms of the time, and certainly spivs and others aped American styles (i.e. the Zoot Suit) during the 40s. Closer to our time you can consider trendy lefties in their 'Nehru' jackets, 'Mao' caps and 'Che' berets. With that in mind you might get some people going for a look of what they imagine a 'revolutionary' to look like. On the other side of the coin, you'll get folk who like to dress in their working class Sunday Best to go to the war too, complete with clean underwear in case of an accident.
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Right,
Uniformity does not require a uniform.
If all the troops in a unit are wearing a red arm band on their left arm, that is the unifrom. Or the uniform may not look like a military uniform. A bunch of coal miners may show up in their work cloths and be perfectly uniform, and perfectly dressed for say night combat.
A unit may not want to look like a military unifrorm. If you want to blend into the crowd after a failed attack, how much better then to be able to throw away the armband.
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There would definitely be some unifying feature, be it an armband, badge or hat band, otherwise there'd be a lot of friendly-fire incidents. While men from the same village would know each other by sight, when you mix several contingents together, there would have to be some common and agreed 'sign' that separates you from the other side.
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I bet some inter-village cricket rivalry could definately lead to some "accidental" friendly fire incidents.
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It wouldn't need to be anything so recent. I was working in a village in the 80s and asked some old guy in the pub about the next village (the other side of a field) and the one line that I've never forgot was "Course they went with the Parliament against the King, so we've not had much to do with them since then." lol
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I imagine that the local football (soccer to those more used to playing baseball) team's colours would be reflected in scarfs etc worn by men in civies. I've seen photos of the Norwich contingent on the 1932 Hunger March carrying a painted plywood canary; this being a symbol of both Norwich and the local football club.
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I've bulked up my force using regular infantry, painted in normal uniform colours on the basis, that either they robbed the local TA Store or they are a TA unit which has picked a side (or more likley had there side picked by there CO ::))
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I presume that upon being de-mobbed, Soldiers o fthe Great War handed their uniforms back. Maybe helmets or Great coats were retained or marked as 'lost' for a fee. Just wondering if there would be Lcpl Jones types mixed in with militia.
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I have a mixture,
LDV are in civis with some military kit like helmets, webbing etc or none at all
Terroritial and Aux are in military uniforms there would ahve been a lot of surplus kit and factories that would still be holding old kit or making it for the regulars
I have also drafted in odd figures to represent retired troops etc who kept their kit. I am sure there would ahve been a number of outlets who were selling ex army kit, typically called the army and navy store in the UK. Many blue collar workers would buy this as work wear
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My Socialist force are in street clothes with a red armband- it's very simple to carve the armband into the mini with the edge of a file. It takes a few seconds and looks really cool. I have seen it done with green stuff, but if your not carefull it looks like they have a swimming float on.
I am also planning a Local Defence force, and to make them look sufficantly different I am going to do head swops, and use the 'tommy' heads from West Wind, with helmets on (as I am using teh same basic selection of minis for both forces. I might even give the LDF a white arm band or something too.
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Or maybe if your LDF is from a pacific place, maybe pant there armband in the coat of arms of the town, or the color of the local sports team. Just an idea
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With the Anglicans we are suggesting that units quartered on towns may well have access to pattern books and get uniforms made up locally in whatever cloth is available, making it possible to use conventional WW1 or early WW2 figures but giving them a distinctive look
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Burberry Battledress it is then!
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what color is Burberry exactly? Sorry just not familer if it.
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Burberry are best known for this particular plaid design...
(http://style.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Burberry-Menswear-Fashion-Show.gif)
There are a number of other connotations that can be drawn from Mr Dodo's choice, I'm just not going there... It's an English thing lol
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With the Anglicans we are suggesting that units quartered on towns may well have access to pattern books and get uniforms made up locally in whatever cloth is available, making it possible to use conventional WW1 or early WW2 figures but giving them a distinctive look
Lincon Green?