Royal Engineers go to war

[Bullshott]

Although the the Prussians have occupied Kent and parts of Surrey and Essex, they have been unable to surround London. The war has now entered a new phase, with the Prussians controlling most of the area south of the River Thames, together with some eastern parts of London to the north of the river. Both sides cling to the fortified ruins they occupy, neither willing to give up the parts of the city under their control. The battle for the city has now reached a stalemate. Prussian and British offensives and counter-offensives have only served to demonstrate the stupidy of sending your new reinforcements against fortified positions occupied by an enemy equipped with the latest 19th century technology.

In an attempt to break the stalemate the Royal Engineers have commandeered a large part of the Great Weatern Railway workshops in Swindon. Here Major Percy Ironside-Hobart RE has set about creating new vehicles and improving existing designs  to help sweep the Hun from London.

Foremost of the new vehicles is the Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE). With its heavy armour, forward-firing heavy gun and sponson-mounted light guns it would be a formidable opponent anyway. By the addition of the dozer blade makes this a truly remarkable design. Although the blade was designed for clearing a path through  rubble and barbed wire, the AVRE crews soon learnt that not only does the blade make an effective ramming weapon against other vehicles but it also provides significant additional front armour protection for the vehicle.

AVRE photographed with members of its crew and its inventor, Major Percy Ironside-Hobart (wearing his prototype Mk2 impervious suit):


Top view:


AVRE is a heavily modified GW Leman Russ tank
Major Hobart is a converted Westwind SOTR British Steel suit with Boyes A/T rifle.
Crew are converted Wargame Factory plastics.

[DFlynSqrl]

Very nice Bullshott.  I like the Mk2 impervious suit. 

[Skrapwelder]

Very nice.

[Mancha]

I like the coal hopper at the back of the tank.

[Wirelizard]

Nice - always liked the look of those SOTR suits. (must resist WWW2, must resist...) Give it a wash of black or very dark grey, though, it looks very flat currently.

[Hitman]

Nice looking figures, and the tank with the coal chute at the back is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman
 

[Malamute]

Wonderful Stuff Sir Henry.
Love the RE chaps too.

Looking forward to seeing these in action. we must arrange another bigsaturday game at the Grotto soon, perhaps before BLAMif you can make it. Then we might have ago at the big seige of London game.

[Plynkes]

Diced bands on R.E. glengarries? You crazy VSF kids, what will you dream up next?


Sorry about that - bad form, what? Lovely job. Those conversions are really full of character. You can just tell that whenever anything mechanical goes wrong, that fellow on the left's answer is to just give it a clout with that massive hammer of his. 

[argsilverson]

Admiring them for some time, I decided to:

congratulate you, very nice job. Particularly I liked the Royal Engineers!

You can just tell that whenever anything mechanical goes wrong, that fellow on the left's answer is to just give it a clout with that massive hammer of his. 

Good!

[twrchtrwyth]

Liking them.

[Chairface]

Fantastic! 

I may have to get around to finishing my WF plastics.... Yours look great!

[Bullshott]

Fantastic! 

I may have to get around to finishing my WF plastics.... Yours look great!

I particularly like the WF British as they are very easy top convert and have the additional heads with glengarries - perfect for converting other figures like my Impervious Suit. I might have to get some of Ramshackle's heads in pith helmets and gasmasks to convert a full unit 

[Chairface]

Fantastic! 

I may have to get around to finishing my WF plastics.... Yours look great!

I particularly like the WF British as they are very easy top convert and have the additional heads with glengarries - perfect for converting other figures like my Impervious Suit. I might have to get some of Ramshackle's heads in pith helmets and gasmasks to convert a full unit 

Hell yeah! That would be awesome!

[Gluteus Maximus]

Well done that man. It's about time we saw some Sappers in LAF.

"Ubique" and "First in - last out" etc etc 

[Doc Twilight]

Well done, Bull! The coal hopper is particularly inspired.

Good show, old chap.

-Doc