Brand New Women of the Home Front by Bad Squiddo

[Annie]

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.



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

[aircav]

Superb 

[DintheDin]

Great vignette and moving story!

[SABOT]

Brilliant!

[Annie]

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!

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Very good.

[DintheDin]

Cracking paintjob on excellent sculpts! The faces and the clothes look so real! 

[Gazjones]

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

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

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.   

[Johnnytodd]

Beautifully done!  I'd love to have a WASP pilot for one of my airplanes  Hint

[Helen]

Beautifully painted by Andrew. Love them all!

[SABOT]

Terrific job on that last batch.

[Guillotine]

These are wonderful, looking forward to picking them up at Crisis!

[Annie]

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

[SABOT]

I ordered them as a complete lot . Great casting quality and cannot wait to paint mine up.