Building the Borsetshire Brigade - Fire brigade volunteers added 30.07.24 (VBCW)

[Doug ex-em4]

Excellent work, Doug. I really like this section and a great fire engine.

I recognised straight away your depictions of Captain Flack, Fireman Pugh (one half of the Pugh twins), Fireman Pugh (the other half of the Pugh twins), Fireman Barney McGrew, Fireman Cuthbert, Fireman Dibble and Fireman Grubb!

Cheers, Martin

I really like the Borsetshire Fire Brigade - a potentially dangerous force - my great grandfather (and great great uncle) were RM/Chatham Lights through the early 1900’s until the ‘22 demob and then joined the Fire Brigade. I now need to find a similar squad in 15mm (having seen yours) for my smaller VBCW.

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain

Thanks, Andrew - I’d like to see what you can do in 15mm. I have a family connection to the Fire Service also - my dad was in the National Fire Brigade in Liverpool during the war. He saw a lot of intense action and also returned from duty early one morning to find his own house destroyed by bombing and no-one about. Luckily my mother and brother escaped but he didn’t find out for several hours. So this section is a nod to him.

Lovely work there.  I like the truck.  Perhaps the Borsetshire Fire Brigade in on the cutting edge of fire-fighting technology, or maybe they are just ahead of their time.  Most importantly though, and I ask this as a tactical matter, does that thing have a water cannon at the end of that ladder?  I can think of a number of uses for something like that, in both anti-personnel and anti-barricade roles...particularly if it has on-board water storage.

Thanks Jim and thanks for the idea which I hadn’t thought of. I’m pretty sure they did carry onboard water but I’ll check that. Adding a hose to the ladder won’t be difficult.


Doug

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Thanks, Andrew - I’d like to see what you can do in 15mm. I have a family connection to the Fire Service also - my dad was in the National Fire Brigade in Liverpool during the war. He saw a lot of intense action and also returned from duty early one morning to find his own house destroyed by bombing and no-one about. Luckily my mother and brother escaped but he didn’t find out for several hours. So this section is a nod to him.

Doug

Doug that must have been an awful moment for him, thank god they were OK.

My great grandmother and grandma were also members of the NFB during the war in Birmingham (sadly my great grandfather died in ‘29 rescuing children from a particularly nasty fire in Brum - he got them all out but didn’t make it himself as a wall collapsed onto him). My Grandma was a renowned tender driver, known to be fast and daring. Unfortunately she also had a nasty habit of not caring about low bridges if it was the quickest route and was moved to down south and a place with less height restrictions (I want to say Portsmouth or Plymouth).

Just have to try and find suitable 15mm heads…….. maybe I can ask Martin at Peter Pig if he doesn’t already do them. I’ve recently found someone that actually wants to play VBCW so that’s help motivate me to give it another go.

Thank you again for the inspiration.

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain

[CapnJim]

Thanks Jim and thanks for the idea which I hadn’t thought of. I’m pretty sure they did carry onboard water but I’ll check that. Adding a hose to the ladder won’t be difficult.

Glad to be of service!  That engine can be their secret weapon!  The other guys' response to seeing it can go from "Oh look.  They brought a fire truck..." to "Oh shit, they brought a fire truck!"...