the winter of 79

[swiftnick]

Chaps can I draw you attention to an interesting new blog charting the history of the British civil wars 1979 onwards.
http://winterof79.blogspot.com/

[Captain Blood]

That'd be ECW4 then 

Interesting idea indeed...

[Thunderchicken]

A very interesting idea indeed. That's tonight's reading sorted. 

[commissarmoody]

Oh! this might just be what I need to get my Punk friands in on some Gameing. 

[Westfalia Chris]

"A Very British Coup!"





So when are Moscow's Peace Troops scheduled to move in?

[gloriousbattle]

I keep telling myself I'm going to do something along these lines:



Wouldn't be too hard, I think.  Take some WWII British, and make removable Yorkist and Lancastrian decals for them, maybe even a couple of flags to give a nice Hollywood impression, and I'd be set to go.

[Red Orc]

I've got some Warzone figures like these guys:





that I'm thinking of using for a McKellern 1930s Richard III style VBC thing, but not for a late '70s version. That would be more flying squads of miners in Ford Cortinas battling it out with police in Panda cars and the odd Jag. Like The Sweeney meets Boys from the Blackstuff. What a whacky concept, I might have to do it now.

Thinking about it I remember a manufacturer in the 1980s had some figs for Unemployed Class Warrior and Evil Thatcher Clone and a Scargiloid, or similar... I'll have to try and find out who it was.

[abhorsen950]

Looks superb to me

[gloriousbattle]

I've got some Warzone figures like these guys<SNIP>

Definitely nice figs, but I'm not sure what you are planning to do.  Some kind of Post-apocalyptic English Civil War?  That'd be pretty cool!

[Red Orc]

It's for an alternate-universe 19th/20th century timeline. It's 'like' VBCW but as if that 20s-30s period follows on from a steampunk 19th and deiselpunk early 20th. It's a kind of grimy Pulp 1930s if that makes any sense.

But I fear we're derailing the 1979 thread - sorry!