My 20mm interwar armored might...

[Vintage Wargaming]

Thanks Arlequin. The autogiro was a surprise and I liked the Carden Loyds towing 3.7" howitzers on trailers.

Alan - sorry, I missed your question about cavalry. They are on the way but may take some time.

I hadn't realised before this morning that if you track the clips down on the Pathe site rather than YouTube you can view them as stills, which helps a lot when identifying kit etc

[Vintage Wargaming]

I am pressing on with my version of !st Battalion Durham Light Infantry in theur role as an experimental MG battalion from 1934-6.

They had a headquarters company, three MG companies and an anti tank company. In addition to Tractors GS Light MK1s they had the first MG Carrier Mk1s - the close ancestor of the Bren carrier.

In the picture above, B Company (Tractors Light GS on left front), second MG Coy with MG Carriers MK 1 (actually Bren Carriers) front right, third MG coy truck borne at rear. A/T company front extreme left. HQ coy vehicles - radio truck, car, m/c combination at right rear.

First up in detail:

B Company



These are Tractors GS Light Mk 1s. I've made them from Giesber's KNIL Vickers Utility Tractors from Early War Miniatures, with various extra parts from the spares box and MGs from Sgts Mess

Next up the anti tank coy:



Giesbers Vickers tractor again. The 20mm Oerlikon a/t gun has tracks from David Reasoner, and gun barrel from Rolf Hedges. i have enough of these to make up to another 5. The gun mounting is made form an Airfix pak 40 gun cradle reversed, which makes a reasonably credible match to the mounting of the real thing. However I don't have any more of these in the spares box so will need to come up with an alternative. SHQ drivers and vehicle crews have just arrived today to decorate this unit further.

Then the collected Ack Ack assets:



I thought I'd try sticking all these together. Starting at rear, left hand side, then anti clockwise:

Matador Models GS Searchlight body on a Matchbox Retriever chassis I think (from Monty's caravan)
Unknown Morris CD 6x4 Battery Staff Car
Oxford Diecast Scammell Pioneer
Raventhorpe 3" AA gun
Raventhorpe Thorneycroft Hathi
Sound Detector on Dyson Trailer (Early War Miniatures)
Heavy AA gun (Skybirds)
Searchlight is by Matador Models
2 pdr QF Mk !11 pom poms -now out of production, from David Reasoner

And the detection equipment together

[tradgardmastre]

More glorious models and figures! Fantastic modelling again.
But who will they fight !
Alan

[Vintage Wargaming]

More glorious models and figures! Fantastic modelling again.
But who will they fight !
Alan

I think the photography must be better than I thought as my modelling skills are minimal.

Most likely opponents are still themselves - I quite fancy "fighting" some of the big army exercises of the 1930s. Other than that - maybe French - hordes of FT17s early on and all that cool kit in the second half of the 1930s - or Franco's Spain. Difficult to come up with an historically convincing European scenario so it might have to be a colonial adventure instead.

[Dent]

The French try to annex Belgium, to protect itself from Germany?

[Arlequín]

... or Flemish & Dutch nationalists try to create 'Dietsland' and the French move to protect the Walloons? A British force could be sent to Antwerp to keep it secure for trade, or something like that.

[Vintage Wargaming]

Some recent odds and ends

Crossley Kegresse half tracks:





These are Matador Models Crossley BGVs with  EWM Kegresse units. It took a very long time waiting for Scale Link to have the models in stock (I have pretty much given up on seeing my order from Matador) but they went together very quickly once they arrived. I've just finished 40+ SHQ BEF vehicle crew (they are single figures, doubles and triples). As usual I have plastidipped them so they should stand up to swapping around between vehicles as required - only a few are/will be glued in.

The half tracks are important for the 1925-30 ish version of my interwar force - the idea is that by swapping some vehicles around it can stretch between about 1925 and up to 1940. The earlier version has Burford Kegresse and Crossley Kegresse half tracks, and Austin 7s, for example, while the later has Vickers Utility Tractors and Morris 8s.

Second up (showing some of the passenger triplets) Raventhorpe Hathi



Then Wespe Morris Commercial Reconnaissance Car



and finally the Early War Miniatures light sound detector. This had disappeared so as soon as it resurfaced I got it finished. (In the meantime I have also done the heavy version on Dyson trailer)

[Lluís of Minairons]

Enviable collection, certainly 

[Vintage Wargaming]

Here are the uber panzers



Morris-Martel tankettes. The first and third are two man versions, two and four the one man ones. Only about 8 in total bought by the WD, I believe, so insignificant in numbers compared to the Carden Loyd. But cool. Lovely Giesbers resin models which took an awful lot of tracking down, thanks to Paul at EWM for these. Each set contains one of each type (so two sets here)..

I also bought some Vickers 6 tonners from First to Fight. Never expected to see these in a fast build; incredibly useful vehicles



I think this just about completes my interwar British kit. I have a 60 pounder gun on its way and am struggling with a very poor limited run Cierva autogiro kit. I may manage to cobble something usable out of it but I am not holding my breath.