My Home Guard Mini Problem

[carlos marighela]

Well since we are doing photos....

My grandfather being inspected by George VI and unidentified senior officers. It must have been June or July 1940 as he went into the RAF to do his pilot training not long after, having joined the HG while waiting to be called up. I do love the look on the on the officer to the King's right. He's looking away as if to say 'Who is this horrible man that's dressed like a bag of shit with a string tied around the middle?'. 

[Listy]

Eventually, I will be doing a big book of the Home Guard, because every single topic I do seems to end up back with the Home Guard, so I've amassed a large chunk of material already.
The plan for it is to follow 3-4 Regiments through the war, and using those as the vehicle to discuss the various topics surrounding the subject. The trouble is, selecting which HG units to follow.

[Red Sveta]

Sounds interesting. I did some research on the local HG regiment a couple of years ago but hit some dead ends. It seems they were organised into battalions of a regiment all responsible for designated areas. One dead end that i hit was that, what would have been my very local battalion and numbered on the map had designated areas/checkpoints and lookout posts marked on a period map of the area, but the number of the battalion does not appear in the historic and registered list for HG Battalions, I couldn't find it anyway. I started to make me wonder about the stay behind sabotage units that were supposed to appear in the German rear areas if the invasion had taken place.

[Listy]

So I return, 10 months on. The bad news, the 1st Corps Range, which is meant to have P.17 has yet to show up on their website. Which means we're back to square one.

One advance is there's this P.14 model in existence now:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/low-poly-p14-enfield-cdb54214b346421187800b991fc1c702

I'm about to go ask my 3d Printer friend if he can print from that. If not, well I guess I'm bang out of luck and need to consider either the converted M1 Garand or the find a WWI US plastic range (with separate arms) and go with that. Unless anyone else has any ideas?

[Old Billman]

Could you modify a kar98k to do the job? Lots of those around in plastic.

[Harry Faversham]

Old Bill's nailed it for yer Listy. Bit of tickling up with the rear sight housing/guard thingy, and...
hey presto, P14!
 

[manchesterreg]

Well seeing we have a picture up with the King, heres mine Dad in Kilt, whilst being inspected as part of London Scottish AA 1940, later got commissioned in Indian Army with the 1/19th Hyderabad Regt in Burma, note the Kilt

[Listy]

Could you modify a kar98k to do the job? Lots of those around in plastic.

Isn't the shape of the stock, especially round the action end the bigger problem? The logical answer if not is to use Springfield 1903's as they're essentially just a K98, and you can get US models with them en mass.

[Rick]

I read somwhere that, during WW1, the most common helmet supplied to the American troops in France was the Adrian helmet, not the British style tin hat, and that the most common rifle was the Enfield pattern 1914, not the Springfield 1903 as most people seem to think.
Does anyone make WW1 Americans with Enfields that you could use as a basis for conversions?