Winter Of 79 / Anarchy In The UK 🇬🇧

[HESH]

Thanks Mate 👍

[Ben Waterhouse]

SAS / Corps Recce Patrol / Honourable Artillery Company

Loads of uses for these figures throughout the Cold War period : 28mm 1st Corps Miniatures:

Oh Hello! 

[HESH]

Deffo 👍👍👍

I’m just chasing  some Warsaw Pact kit for them to target !

[carlos marighela]

There's a 1/48 Arii Scud out there and i just recently came across a 1/56 printed version.

[HESH]

I like the  way you think! 👍

[HESH]

Managed to devalue another Dinky .

Made the IED in the form of a fertiliser bag as was common back then - full of nitrogen.

[Rickf]

Made the IED in the form of a fertiliser bag as was common back then - full of nitrogen.

Cheeky monkeys

[carlos marighela]

Now you need to find a figure of some twat in a boiler suit trying to light the fuse with a lighter, which is really, truly, how the Loughall bomb was initiated. Even the waiting SAS ambush party were gob smacked by that one. Next you'll need a blue Toyota van that looks like a Swiss cheese. 

[carlos marighela]

Oops... not an ambush party but a... er.. OP/React party. 

[HESH]

Now to get that written up as a game scenario .

[carlos marighela]

Bit one sided to be honest. The only real risk was to the three RUC officers and part of the SAS group who were at the rear and the other end of the building and or/behind the blast wall. There was a low wall in front of the station that effectively prevented the ASU from getting the digger much closer to the station beyond the gate. The only reason there was anyone in the station anyway was essentially as a way around the Yellow Card, as anyone attacking the station could be said to represent a threat to those inside. As it happens a couple were slightly injured when the bomb demolished part of the station. It was a fucking big bomb after all.

The main killer group with the 2 X GPMGs were stationed up the road in a copse. Once the twats got out to fire their shots at the station it was really game over, as they were right in the middle of the killing ground. Save for the poor innocent sod who got caught in the firefight, it's pretty much a textbook ambush.

Only two of the group survived and they were the scouts that had preceded the rest recceing the village. I read an interview made 30 years on in the Irish Times and one of them claimed that they had driven back towards the station after it all kicked off, with a view to picking up any survivors but claims that they were stopped by the SAS cut off group. He also claimed that they were later stopped at an RUC VCP but inexplicably allowed to go. Who knows?

[HESH]

More diecasts ….

The James Bond range has figures seated as standard .

The coal truck is a Dinky . I wanted a rough looking thing and as a consequence got this one very cheap. Coal sacks by Skytrex , added the cab roof sign and glued a few pieces of loose and scattered coal to the flat bed .

[AKULA]

some nice additions...love the coal truck, and every game should have a cortina

 

[carlos marighela]

some nice additions...love the coal truck, and every game should have a cortina

 

Indeed. Mine will have a couple of Asconas as well. 

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Many hanks for the tip off to the James Bond range. I was vaguely aware of them because of the pimped out T-55 but did a serious search after seeing your Landy. Worked out well as I now have a nice period appropriate taxi and BMW police car for Berlin. Just need 'N's changed to 'B's on the number plates and a slight mod to the police badge and they are good to go. Good enough as is to be honest. The Land Rover requires a bit more work and due to screw placement mine was a bugger to open up. Bit of minor pimping and de to get painted up.

By way of returning the favour, look out for the old Solido 1/43 kits, both the white metal and plastic ranges. The plastic range has some useful models from the 1940s through to the 1970s including a Mini and a Beamer along wit various Citroens and other French types. The metal range has some useful European late '70s and '80s types. Most tricked out as rally cars but easy to make into standard sedans. Because they are kits, they are easy to have opened up and easy to add battle damage, open doors, bullet holes etc. The plastic ones can even be turned into burnt out vehicles or the residue of  car bomb if you fancy. Very easy builds. My local stockist is knocking them out between $10 and $12 AUD a piece but they aren't that pricey on fleabay.

[HESH]

Great stuff mate - cheers for the steer!