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Offline Hu Rhu

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Re: Communist Party of Great Britain Infantry Platoon.. (My VBCW) 19/11
« Reply #75 on: 21 November 2015, 12:37:24 PM »
Looking good Paul.  Might I suggest that the various docks around the Medway could suit your purpose as a base.  Might Chatham be the answer??

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Re: Communist Party of Great Britain Infantry Platoon.. (My VBCW) 19/11
« Reply #76 on: 21 November 2015, 02:52:02 PM »
Looking good Paul.  Might I suggest that the various docks around the Medway could suit your purpose as a base.  Might Chatham be the answer??

Cheers, Gary.
Chatham is certainly a possibility but I may use that option for a base for the Anglican League Naval Platoon featured earlier.
 ;)


Here is a closer shot of the Command Section of the CPGB platoon...



....although I think the chap on the right may well be moved over to lead an infantry squad as he has the same kind of aesthetic as the other two squad leaders that I have located.



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Re: CPGB Infantry Platoon Command Section.. (My VBCW) 20/11
« Reply #77 on: 22 November 2015, 10:18:42 AM »
 :-* cracking figures and paintwork there mate

They would make a good cast for a pantomime too  ;)

Cheers
Matt

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Re: CPGB Infantry Platoon Command Section.. (My VBCW) 20/11
« Reply #78 on: 22 November 2015, 12:57:35 PM »
Excellent work!! ;)

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Re: CPGB Infantry Platoon Command Section.. (My VBCW) 20/11
« Reply #79 on: 22 November 2015, 01:03:19 PM »
:-* cracking figures and paintwork there mate

They would make a good cast for a pantomime too  ;)

Oh no they wouldn't!

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Re: CPGB Infantry Platoon Command Section.. (My VBCW) 20/11
« Reply #80 on: 22 November 2015, 08:07:50 PM »
Oh no they wouldn't!


Oh yes they would!

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Re: CPGB 'Vezdekhod'. (My VBCW) 21/11
« Reply #81 on: 23 November 2015, 08:14:32 AM »
 lol lol
Thanks, chaps!
That did make me chuckle.

Fair point, though, Bertie, they do look a little camp like that.
Maybe they need separating.... ;)



Back to the CPGB.
This time it is the Platoon support armour, in the form of a Vezdekhod....







More info on this curious little beast here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vezdekhod

How this little beast ended up in the hands of the CPGB is anybody's guess, but it has and is not the only form of srmour that they will take to the field with them....


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Re: CPGB 'Vezdekhod' (My VBCW) 23/11
« Reply #82 on: 23 November 2015, 11:09:43 AM »
That's a cool little model.

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Re: CPGB 'Vezdekhod' (My VBCW) 23/11
« Reply #83 on: 23 November 2015, 11:13:41 AM »
Nice weathering Pablo, the stuck grass in the chassis is a nice touch 8)

The operatic ladies on the left must know a good number of songs from the motherland to sing and encourage the workers forward.

Might you make as 'fiddler on the roof' figure from your banjo player? ;)

Cheers
Matt

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Re: CPGB 'Vezdekhod' (My VBCW) 23/11
« Reply #84 on: 27 November 2015, 12:46:15 PM »
That's a cool little model.

Nice weathering Pablo, the stuck grass in the chassis is a nice touch 8)

Thanks, chaps!
I picked it up on the Bazaar recently or would never have known anything about the model.
Very quirky, which really appeals for my VBCW setting.
I just removed its base, added a little more weathering and 'mud' and debris and scrawl the lettering on the side.
I think that I will leave it just as it is as I am happy with it like that.



The operatic ladies on the left must know a good number of songs from the motherland to sing and encourage the workers forward.

Or maybe just 'Knees up, Comrade Brown...' as it is a very British civil war.
 ;)



Might you make as 'fiddler on the roof' figure from your banjo player? ;)

You have given me a couple of ideas with that comment.
Cheers!
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Re; Communist reinforcements... (My VBCW) 03/12
« Reply #85 on: 03 December 2015, 08:23:11 AM »
Some reinforcements for the Communists....



Two Lewis gun teams and section leaders. I still have another LMG to do for the other infantry squad.
And I must get a new bulb for the lamp as this one gives a rather strange colouring to the figures.



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Re: Communist reinforcements... (My VBCW) 03/12
« Reply #86 on: 03 December 2015, 11:19:13 AM »
Maybe give the CP command squad a proper revolutionary banner? The lady with red bandanna seems to able to hold one? :)

That armour looks vicious! :D

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Re: The Penge Local Defence Force (Watermen Section)
« Reply #87 on: 03 December 2015, 04:04:21 PM »
More detailed historical information on the Almshouses:


I've been wondering what that building was by the crooked billet since I was a kid, Thanks Paul   :)

Great paintwork Jeff. 8)
Well I've lead an evil life, so they say, but I'll outrun the Devil on judgement day.

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Re: Communist reinforcements... (My VBCW) 03/12
« Reply #88 on: 03 December 2015, 11:49:59 PM »
Maybe give the CP command squad a proper revolutionary banner? The lady with red bandanna seems to able to hold one? :)

That armour looks vicious! :D

The CPGB have a banner in the works but I am afraid that the lady with the red headscarf is most likely defecting to the Penge WI as their banner bearer so the CP will have to look elsewhere.
 ;)



I've been wondering what that building was by the crooked billet since I was a kid, Thanks Paul   :)

Glad to be of service.
Another helpful tip is that is where to get off the bus when you pop round for a game in future....hint, hint... ;)



Great paintwork Jeff. 8)

Jeff has turned out quite a few lovely paintjobs earlier in this thread, but I have managed to actually paint quite a lot of the last few posts myself, ya know...?
 ;D



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Re: Communist reinforcements... (My VBCW) 03/12
« Reply #89 on: 04 December 2015, 12:07:16 AM »

Jeff has turned out quite a few lovely paintjobs earlier in this thread, but I have managed to actually paint quite a lot of the last few posts myself, ya know...?
 ;D


So you did, especially the redhead with the Mauser, just about my favourite Copplestone woman  ;D

 

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