The Humberstone Militia Have a Brand New Shiny Thing

Yes indeed the Humberstone Militia of Leicester with the help from the Leicester City Council have been awarded for all their hard work and dedication to the defense of Leicester and the fact that they are the closest Militia force to the Duke of Rutland's Edwardite forces, a lovely and recently decommissioned, now brought back into service, Vickers MkII Medium tank. Still in its ex employers, the British Army, camouflage, this help them to carry on giving the Duke a bloody nose and bringing the fight to him. The only thing left to do is to find a name for this beauty with such names of "Richard III" and "Dicko" being mentioned but the Humberstone Militia commander wants to name it after his wife Marjorie Paget. Well here is the beauty.

This is the first tank, real tank that is, for my VBCW game, yes the arms race has started. To me it is the very VBCW tank, a pop gun, paper thin armour and the size of a house. It even has a full size door on the back of it. I forgot to say the tank is from Reiver Castings and its a heavy beast, being a resin body and metal turret and tracks.

The Tigers get some Heavy Support

Now I love this weapon when I first saw it on Mutton Chop's website and actually got it straight away. Now that was over a year ago and with me getting some regulars I thought it was time to paint it up and add it yo my force. Unlike my regulars who are wearing battledress these chaps are actually in service dress but thats fine as the British Army was changing over at the time from SDs to BDs and I rather like SDs anyway. So here is the finished 20mm Oerlikon Cannon with crew.

Here is what it looked like back in the day

Here Comes the Leicestershires, Up the Tigers!

Having painted all manner of militias and irregulars over the past few years I thought it was time that I actually buy and paint for regulars of the Leicestershire Regiment. So to this end I got me a section of BEF Infantry and a Command pack for Warolrd to see what they were like and to fill in the missing gap in my forces. Firstly having looked on Warlords website I ave to say I was not totally impressed with their BEF Infantry for some reason, it was something to do with the way they looked, but at Partizan I got to see them in the flesh and I have to say They looked rather nice. Now they come with separate heads and in the pack you get a full 10 section. I now that at the start of the war the British section was not ten men, in fact it was either eight men or eleven men, but still it is a good number to be going with. Once the heads where added to the figures the models really came to life and I have to say they are sculpted with the best SMLE MkIII I have seen on any model. They are rather nicely sculpted with a good variety of poses that look rather natural and the uniform and webbing looks rather spot on. Here are a couple of photos of my chaps painted up.