Blitzkrieg and Bicycles - How Belgium Was Rudely Interrupted in 1940

[Lee_Robertson]

Well, its been a long time coming but Bayonets & Brushes are finally releasing a new range of miniatures.

Over the next four days we’ll be publishing four blogs, in the first we’re going to introduce you all to the plucky Belgians and their going on’s in 1940. A 15,000 word monster that should be more than enough to convince even the most cynical of you how hard Western Europes underdogs fought against the Nazi hordes.

We will all take a walk around the mighty Eben-Emael fortress and discover how one of the most secure places in the world fell to the Germans in a single day.

We will explore the Belgian arsenal, perusing all of the vehicles and artillery that Bayonets & Brushes is bringing to the table and at the same high quality and reasonable cost that we are becoming known for and finally we will sign off with a post about the Belgian air force. Perhaps an afterthought in history but they made a fight of it nonetheless… and with an air force that was probably better suited to the first world War…

But today ladies and gentlemen, let us give you some light bed time reading. Let us introduce you to the 18 day war! Belgium 1940!
https://bayonetsandbrushes.co.uk/blitzkrieg-and-bicycles-how-belgium-was-rudely-interrupted-in-1940/

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[HerbertTarkel]

Nice - this period of the war is perhaps my favourite: the early Blitz, and all the wonky Allied kit that was not even close to being up to task. Those tankettes!!! Wonderfully weird and bizarre. Does anyone even make models for those?!?

Bicycles at war!

[fred]

Early war is a great period, I've got a very colourful French 1940 force, that often does pretty well at a tactical level vs the grey hordes.

Lovely pictures on the blog post, but I'm afraid the words are literally unreadable, white all caps on a dark yellow background, this is really really hard to read. And for some reason how the blog is setup defeats Reader view.

Herbert - if you want to go small scale Pendraken have a few of the Belgian tankettes https://www.pendraken.co.uk/10mm-world-war-ii-belgian and I'm sure Pithead will have a bunch too.

[Vis Bellica]

Brilliant to have access to all that early war kit, and I shall definitely be buying the Belgians in due course, but I have to echo Fred's comments about the website being really difficult to read: all block capitals and sometimes on a heavily patterned background.