A Yank needs some VBCW help

[commissarmoody]

Off to a great start.

[6milPhil]

You could of course play purely with stereotypes. An American Anglophile who has bought a manor house...

Only just read this suggestion, a good one and reminds me of George MacDonald Frasers "Mr American"... so a solid excuse to read a cracking book. More on that title; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_American

Of course there's a lot of scope for which type of American any visitor might be, a gangster on the lam, a rich playboy playing with fascism (like a lot of Brit Aristocrats), etc. Perhaps a way to make it your own?

[Arlequín]

Joe Kennedy was ambassador to the UK during this time, so you've scope for his machinations as appeaser and gangster, while his adult sons; Joe and John were cut from somewhat different cloth. Joe was at the LSE in 1938 and John spent 1937 touring Europe before joining Pa at the embassy. Daughter Kathleen married William Cavendish the heir to the Duke of Devonshire at this time. If there isn't a story there to be teased out, I don't know were there is.

 

[commissarmoody]

Thats alot of intresting stuff to work with.

[Arlequín]

I had Joe senior flirting with the Royalists (which he did in real life to the max) and associating with the BUF etc, while John was involved with the Chamberlains and Socialists in Birmingham as part of his 'youthful rebellion' stage. I didn't go anywhere with it though.

Interestingly Joe Jr lost his life in WW2 as part of Operation Aphrodite, which was part of the development of the first combat drones. President Roosevelt's son Elliot, who was supposed to film the mission Joe was on, from another aircraft, was also nearly killed in the explosion of Joe's aircraft.

[Cadet13]

Wish I could say that I've been getting a lot painted recently, but real life has a way of getting in the way (i.e. school work, papers etc.). However, I do have a few things to share.

More People's Posties, this time a 1910 Maxim donated and shipped by like-minded postmen in the Soviet Union and crew.





And to start my BUF forces, a TK-3 tankette.





My fluff says that the tramp steamer transporting the tankette and other weapons intended for the Anglican League was intercepted by Royalist patrol craft. Not willing to let the TK-3 go to waste, the tankette was given a "panzer grey" paint scheme similar to the Germans and a few Lighting Bolts and away she was sent.

On the painting table now I have part of the Postie's reece element & Lady Lough-Downe, Jervis, the butler and two thirds of the Woodlington-on-Green Amateur Cricket Association, all from the Yorkist Front.

I have decided that, not knowing much of the particulars of "real" Britain, that I am going to be gaming in a ficticious little corner of England surrounding the equally ficticious Woodlington-on-Green and the surrounding countryside. As far as location within "real" England, I'd say it's Lincolnshire-ish. But, as my forces and games (and thus, campaigns) are so small and in such a small area it really won't be affected by the big picture all that much.

C&Cs welcome, thanks for looking!

Cadet13

[6milPhil]

Oh I like the tankette. If you want to give up painting the BUF flashes you might try the BUF flags up for grabs on my humble blog. They're from flag to armband size. If you do use them once you've cut them out you might want to run around the white edge of them with a red marker so it matches.

Click on the image in this post http://6milphil.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/buf-flags/ to get a hi-res 300dpi version

[Cadet13]

A small update: another People's Postie.







I'm rather proud of this chap. He is one of the members of the Postie's recce element, and he's an amalgamation of a bunch of different things: Warlord Games donkey, BTD German motorcycle rider body with equipment cut off and resculpted with green stuff, rifle from the Reaper 20th Century weapons pack, head from the Wargames Factory Zulu War British sprue and an old Bolt Action helmet.

More reece on the way!

Hope you like,

Cadet13

[jp1885]

A  guy in a tin hemet riding a donkey - that pretty much sums up what VBCW is all about!

Excellent work - You'd do well to show off your work on the Gentleman's wargames Parlour sir! 

[Republicofalnwick]

Let me echo JP on that one. The chap on the donkey is brilliant.

Some fantastic work there. As good as anything on GWP.

[Cadet13]

Wow, thanks for the compliments gents! I thought that Donkey Rider looked pretty neat myself, and he just sort of came together the way he did by accident, really.

Meanwhile, another reece Postie:







And the current reece group together:



Looking at the pictures, I just noticed that I forgot his armband (doh!). I'm planning on adding a motorcycle and sidecar to the group at a later date.

Also, I just registered for GWP, so I'll be posting my stuff there as well, but I won't neglect you guys here at LAF either. More will come!

C&Cs always welcomed, thanks for looking.

-Chuck

[Traveler Man]

They're both excellent figures - the chap on the horse is full of dashing motion - but my favorite has to be the fellow on the donkey.