Author Topic: Yesteryear... (Read 11244 times)

Harry Faversham · « **on:** February 02, 2021, 11:21:08 AM »

Yesteryear: I seem to be spending more time there than in the real world these days. Saturday night's swirling mist of Tetley's Best Bitter fumes revealed a vision, that takes me back again, maybe never to return!
Neil Thomas is a ruleriter who I believe was cloned from the DNA of Donald Featherstone and Charles Grant so his 'One Hour Wargames' rules are nailed on, for mi' next braynwave.
Using the book's unit stats, two units will be created, one British the other German. The units will all be Airfix models from the dawn of time, painted as we did in the sixties...

British.

One Infantry Company (British Infantry Combat Group)

Two anti-tank guns (6pdr. and carrier)

One Artillery Battery of two guns (25pdr. and Quad)

Tank Troop (Churchill and Sherman)

German.

One Infantry Company (*)

Two anti-tank guns (Stug 111 and SDKFz.234)

One Artillery Battery of two guns (88mm Gun and Tractor)

Tank Troop (Tiger and Panther)

(*) Them vintage Airfix Germans with the drainpipe bazooka thingy and that little anti-tank cannon?

That should make a nice collection of the crappest looking figures and vehicles still in existence. When they're done we'll fight all the OHW scenarios in order (there's twenty odd, I think?) and find out who really did win WW2 in yesteryear!

Truscott Trotter · « **Reply #1 on:** February 02, 2021, 10:53:14 PM »

Once upon a time I had everything on that list apart from the Churchill and the Stug
Are you going to use the 1st Ed Brits too?

gamer Mac · « **Reply #2 on:** February 02, 2021, 11:15:33 PM »

sound interesting

Will bring back old memories

Blackwolf · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2021, 12:57:18 AM »

Nice,incidentally I have a Airfix squadron of Churchill for Normandy,probably my fave tank

Harry Faversham · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2021, 02:32:56 AM »

Quote from: Truscott Trotter on February 02, 2021, 10:53:14 PM

Once upon a time I had everything on that list apart from the Churchill and the Stug
Are you going to use the 1st Ed Brits too?

Yep, these lads. Painted just as I did 'em back in the day...

green uniforms and khaki webbing, just like their Crescent big brothers...
about as wrong a depiction of WW2 British Infantry as it's possible to get!

Ash · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2021, 11:27:46 AM »

First off; where on earth did you find those? Are they carrying SLRs?

Harry Faversham · « **Reply #6 on:** February 03, 2021, 01:14:39 PM »

A few survivors from the 60s that I discovered in the bowels of the Emporium, the rest gleaned from fleabay. They look to be SLRs on the box art, but on the actual figures themselves, you can't distinguish the weapons at all... they look like matchsticks with the ends chewed into a bayonet. Their big brothers are Herald British Infantry, looks like they too went to the same dodgy arms dealer!

Some of these lads now serve as U.N.I.T Troopers in our Doctor Who games...

Here's a review of the little brethren. As the 'big 'un' I had these lads and our kid got stuck with the Germans... that kind of changed when we discovered Tiger Tanks!

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=53

Truscott Trotter · « **Reply #7 on:** February 03, 2021, 10:17:41 PM »

Actually they look like M-16's
This was my second ever box of Airfix, the Germans being the first. Even at age 6 the wargamer came out in me as the Germans had Schrecks and a 28mm cannon

Ash · « **Reply #8 on:** February 04, 2021, 03:22:22 PM »

Some of those rifles look like the EM-2.

gamer Mac · « **Reply #9 on:** February 04, 2021, 04:45:46 PM »

God they are bad
Thank god they were before my time
I do vaguely remember the germans they had an anti-gun with a crewman that sat on it

Harry Faversham · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2021, 10:29:34 AM »

Staying with the 'old skool' theme I've added some armoured support. The last time I built this kit was the year England won the World Cup!

gamer Mac · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2021, 11:17:37 AM »

I remember that kit all those horrible little road wheels
Good luck with that

Oldgamer · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2021, 11:21:58 AM »

Do you have a stash of those old school vac formed terrain pieces to use with them, no table would be complete without some Bellona bits and pieces!

Harry Faversham · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2021, 11:32:43 AM »

Yep, got a binbag full from the dawn of time. Might drag 'em out when the action reaches the table, I'm thinking they'd kind of fit with OHW's minimalist terrain needs.
Got some of them model railway ancient oaks too!

Harry Faversham · « **Reply #14 on:** February 15, 2021, 06:45:16 AM »

What's the best Vallejo yellow base coat (I'll be brush painting it on) for German tanks in Normandy please?

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