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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Annie on October 02, 2017, 09:17:19 PM
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Hello folkies!
Bad Squiddo Games is exceedingly proud to present a brand new range as part of the 28mm Women of WW2 collection - Women of the Home Front. Dedicated to my late grandmother Jesse Norman, who served in the Women's Land Army.
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We have six new packs to start, three Women's Land Army, two Women's Home Defence and a set of Field Medics.
This is a pre order that is available to collect at Crisis, Antwerp or delivery anywhere in the world at the start of November. There are a couple of pre order bundles as well to get you started on your home defence force.
Sculpted by the ever so talented and much adored Alan Marsh, with some beautiful paint jobs coming to you soon.
These fit with all popular WW2 ranges perfectly.
Available to pre order now
http://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Pre-Order-the-Ladies-of-the-Home-Front/c/25226639/offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc (http://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Pre-Order-the-Ladies-of-the-Home-Front/c/25226639/offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc)
"But when the war is over, and peace at last restored, I shall always remember the Land Girl, who made her hoe her sword",
Thanks for reading,
Annie Norman
Bad Squiddo Games
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They are fantastic Annie :-*
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Brilliant, just what I wanted and didn't realise lol
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Lovely work and a bloody brilliant idea! You just need a young Liz driving an ambulance and Perry already have you sorted out with the vehicle.
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That is a great range.
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Thanks all, I have huge plans to expand this, just gotta sell these first!
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I think I would rather face your Russians than that one with the handbag lol
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Will be ordering the whole set Annie soon as my bonus comes in...
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Beautiful miniatures. Well done to you and Alan.
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Wonderful. Those Land Army girls are a must.
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Well done on this.
Lovely idea and great sculpts. I am sure that you have enough ideas but I would second the opinion of the young Elizabeth plus drivers- transport drivers / bus / tram etc and any 'defiant Londoners' would be great. Ammunition workers? Anything based on the classic movies like 'Went The Day Well' etc.
To add my little bit of support I have just preordered the 'all of them bundle' and look forward to November now . Well done again!
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Way cool.
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Lovely work and a bloody brilliant idea! You just need a young Liz driving an ambulance and Perry already have you sorted out with the vehicle.
One freebie from Partizan a few years back.........
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Great figures! WWII era civilians are always welcome and the Land Army ones are a very good idea for Home Front scenarios.
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One freebie from Partizan a few years back.........
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That's a must have!
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They are really beautiful! And a great tribute to all those brave women!
Well done! I wish you all the best for this series!
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Very good.
Hopefully I will not be too late at Warfare.
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Lovely idea and nice figures.
But my dear old nan would be mortified at the idea of putting shotguns into the hands of Land Girls. She thought they were a danger to themselves and others when given mere simple farm implements, never mind firearms. She grew up on a farm during the war, and didn't have a very high opinion of the Women's Land Army, I'm afraid. Hopeless Townies, she called them. There's your traditional warm country welcome for city types, right there. lol
Now the Italian POWs who worked on the farm, and the black GI's that used to call for tea? Oh, that was different. She liked them, all right. :)
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Thankyou so much!
The range will eventually become massive, but as always it's down to budget, these lot cost me a LOT, I had to cut my spreadsheet in half when giving the brief when I started adding it up. So they're released in waves to recoup some money before the next wave. The planned growth is for basically everything female and WW2 you can imagine! Of all the things I produce, the WW2 is where my heart is the most at, but you know what it's like, fingers in pies everywhere to maximise!
Like the the Soviets, I started with the "most likely to sell", so that when I am more comfortably cashed I can release some riskier ones that hey might not sell half as much but I personally want there to exist, so there are some fantastic plans for those. It is my hobby, passion and fascination, but also my full time job, so I have to bear in mind the paying the bills aspect, as well as caring for the most expensive guinea pig in the world (if you haven't been following it, she's had one condition after the other this year!) But really aside from living costs and the odd bowl of cheerios, it all gets invested back into new sculpts, I'm kind of obsessed...
So in a nutshell, buy these! Buy them! Go on! And the faster you buy them, the faster there will be more :D
Anniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie
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We all know about Dad's Army, but what about Mum's Army? Well it was indeed a thing, set up with the help of feminist campaigner "Flossie Bang Bang" - Dr Edith Summerskill. Women weren't to use manly guns or anything though, of course not. Not at all. Oops. Here we can see a serjeant drilling some civilian Women's Home Defence Corps members. There was no official uniform, just a badge.
In this particular pack, we kept the design loose so that they could either be trained WHDC or simply civillians. It opens up a lot of potentials scenarios. Perhaps the Germans have finally landed, or perhaps it's just a randy bovine in the woods, either way, it requires some investigation and prompt improvisation! Jesse has strung up her kitchen knife to a broom handle while Timmy has found one of her husband's Zulu artifacts to be a useful weapon.
The beauty of these miniatures is that are 100% historically accurate yet also work brilliantly in Pulp and "What if" type games.
http://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Pre-Order-the-Ladies-of-the-Home-Front/c/25226639/offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc (http://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Pre-Order-the-Ladies-of-the-Home-Front/c/25226639/offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc)
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I think this range is a great 'balance' for all the male figures lurking about. of course I prefer civilian figures to warriors, so perhaps i'm a bit biased coming out of the gate.
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Long may this concept continue.....Loved the Russians and while these current offerings might not fit in with what I need, I have hopes that in the future there will be some I really can't be without!
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Yep there they are. Ladies with rifles. That's the historical proof. I certainly didn't know about that. My mum volunteered in the WAAF (later WRAF) where she met my dad who was in the RAF. They married on 6 June 1942.
I don't know if she ever had to learn to shoot.
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Some amazing paint jobs from Paul Sanderson
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Brilliant :-*
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Excellent paintjob! Stunning dresses with colors and patterns of the era! They are great :-*
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They are just superb. I can understand your pride in these outstanding figures and I cannot wait to receive mine. This will rightly develop into a tribute as much as great gaming uses.
Just want to congratulate you and I will support you in this all the way. Still have a little space for a few more figures. 😄
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Excellent paintjob! Stunning dresses with colors and patterns of the era! They are great :-*
X infinity!
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Someone has been hoarding all those Butterick pattern catalogues! Beautifully painted btw.
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They are fantastically painted. I'd love to know how he did those?
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During World War II from 1939 to 1945 members of the QAIMNS (Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service) served in many countries ranging from Africa, Burma, China, Egypt, France, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Iceland, Italy, Malaya, Malta, Normandy, Palastine and Singapore.
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This vignette, sculpted by Alan Marsh and shown painted by Andrew Taylor is a tribute to those women. It can be used simply as a stand alone display but also in games to represent medics or even a wound marker.
"Many QAs made their way to Dunkirk to await evacuation. One of the last nursing sisters to leave France was Lillian Gutteridge who bravely defended her patients. A German SS officer tried to take over her ambulance and ordered his men to throw out the stretcher bound patients. Lillian Gutteridge was so outraged that she slapped the SS Officer's face. He stabbed her in the thigh with his dagger and he was killed by passing Black Watch soldiers before he could hurt her anymore. Despite her wound she drove the ambulance and her wounded patients to the railway siding and persuaded the French driver to take on board her patients. They went to Cherbourg and during their journey took on board another 600 French and British wounded troops. Several days later Lillian and her patients arrived safely in England. "
One Captain of a Hospital Ship wrote
"As Captain of this ship I should like to give expression to my admiration and deep regard for the Nursing Sisters aboard. We recently made two trips to Dunkirk and two to Cherbourg, in each case being the last Hospital Carrier to enter and leave the ports. Our second trip to Dunkirk was under extremely severe conditions, bombs and shells dropping all about us and men being wounded and killed alongside our ship on the pier. We had numerous narrow escapes and a nerve racking experience. During all this our Sisters were really splendid. Never a sign of excitement or panic of any kind. They just carried on under the able leadership of our Matron, calmly and efficiently. I feel quite sure that their magnificent behaviour was an important factor in steadying the members of the RAMC personnel with whom they worked."
Definitely more awesome than Tom Hardy.
Pre order yours here!
http://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Pre-Order-the-Ladies-of-the-Home-Front/c/25226639/offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc
Cheers
Annie
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Superb 8) :-* 8) :-*
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Great vignette and moving story!
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Brilliant!
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In it's peak in 1944, there were 80,000 women serving in the Women's Land Army in the UK. As more and more men went off to fight, many jobs were left behind, which traditionally "weren't for women". Women filling these jobs allowed more men to leave the shores, as women certainly weren't allowed to do such an "unwomanly" thing. Many meetings were held over the duration of WW2 and it was always agreed that as life givers, women should not be pulling any triggers, even when men relatively high up gave it the green light, it was seen to be a bad move that would cause a national uproar.
So thousands of women moved to the countryside, and became labourers, taking on every task you can imagine. Many were "city girls" with no experience of the outdoors, so it was quite the steep learning curve! It's hard to imagine now, but even the fact that the uniform included trousers was a very big deal - trousers were men's clothing!
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Very good.
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Cracking paintjob on excellent sculpts! The faces and the clothes look so real! :o
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You've done the serving Women proud with these figures. My Mum served on the Anti Aircraft Guns during the London air-raids. My nextdoor neighbour served as a Land Girl. She told me many stories and showed many photos.
Stunning models and painting :-* :-*
Gaz
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So in a nutshell, buy these! Buy them! Go on! And the faster you buy them, the faster there will be more
Anniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie
OK, I give in! I've bought them! Lovely-looking figures. :-*
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Beautifully done! I'd love to have a WASP pilot for one of my airplanes ;) Hint
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Beautifully painted by Andrew. Love them all!
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Terrific job on that last batch.
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These are wonderful, looking forward to picking them up at Crisis!
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Just a bump as I've been too busy to forum - they're all released and in a nice chunk of stock ready for shipping as soon as you order em! (well, in works hours)
http://badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Soviets/c/21735085/offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc
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I ordered them as a complete lot . Great casting quality and cannot wait to paint mine up.
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Thank you SABOT! And Merry Christmas all!
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Thanks - now get your feet up girl and have a deserved rest.