A Busy Few Days...

[Mick A]

After finishing my armoured traction engine last week-


I have now, over the last three days, got stuck in with what I else I set myself to do. Firstly the East Devon Farmers Wives Association-


Then Checkpoint Charles-


Its a set from 4ground but the hut looked to WWII for me so I made myself a more suitable corrugated iron one


Then some 28mm craters I bought at Devizes last year-


A little sign post-


And a few Devon dunnies-


All these are for the game I'm helping to put on at the UK Games Expo this coming weekend. Still to do, some cattle, finish off two bridges, telegraph poles an LDV standard bearer and a dog...

I've also finished a three vehicle commission-

[leadfool]

well done

[von Lucky]

Lovely work - prepping some stuff now for VBCW and this is motivating me.

[Mason]

Very productive with plenty of wit and imagination thrown in for good measure.
 


Love the Devon Wives and Checkpoint Charles.
Brilliant.
 



Are they the 4Ground 'dunnies', as I need some of them soon?

[Mick A]

Thanks

The dunnies are Warbases, the 4ground ones don't look the right shape to me...

[Dr DeAth]

Great stuff, what did you use to make the checkpoint hut?

[Mick A]

Last time I was in Brum I went to the Ian Allen bookshop and bought a sheet of corrugated plasticard that was in their model railway section, finally got around to using some of it

[Mason]

Thanks

The dunnies are Warbases, the 4ground ones don't look the right shape to me...

Cheers, mate.
I shall have a butchers at their stuff.
 

[aggro84]

Just as I was giggling at the ladies with the purple helmets, I saw "greater wallop" and "lesser wallop" and spat up my drink!

[Steve F]

Just as I was giggling at the ladies with the purple helmets, I saw "greater wallop" and "lesser wallop" and spat up my drink!

Actually less mad place names than the real ones that presumably inspired them: Nether Wallop, Over Wallop and Middle Wallop (collectively, "the Wallops") in Hampshire.

[Plynkes]

Being a small child in the early 1970s, a time before Star Wars when WWII still provided the prime source of entertainment in the form of books and comics for boys (and Dick Emery was our aeroplane modelling guru), Middle Wallop is one of those evocative names to conjure with, like Duxford and Biggin Hill.

For me when I hear it I don't think "Ha, ha silly name," I think "Spitfires."



I love the armoured traction engine, by the way. 

[Col. Aubrey Bagshot]

As a loyal devonian, I was wondering why the erstwhile Farmers Wives of this fair county were fighting so far from home, in Hampshire??
Surely their services would be far better employed defending hearth and home?

[aggro84]

Actually less mad place names than the real ones that presumably inspired them: Nether Wallop, Over Wallop and Middle Wallop (collectively, "the Wallops") in Hampshire.

So many Wallops?
You Brits are mad!