Huey lands to pick up a platoon in a Vietnam War demonstration game.
Category: historical
54mm D-Day
The final set of photographs of the evocative 54mm scale D-Day model at the Nothe Fort in Weymouth.
In the depths of the Nothe Fort in Weymouth (as well as a civillian nuclear bunker (now abandoned)) there is a really beautiful 54mm scale model of the D-Day landings. Lots of different models in there including an Horsa glider.
It is a representative model and does not reflect an actual beachhead.
Russian Helicopter Mil Mi-8
Russian Mil Mi-8 from a 20mm moderns demonstration game from a show that I can’t recall from the 1990s.
More 54mm D-Day
In the depths of the Nothe Fort in Weymouth (as well as a civillian nuclear bunker (now abandoned)) there is a really beautiful 54mm scale model of the D-Day landings. Lots of different models in there including an Horsa glider.
Here are some more photographs that I posted earlier. It is a representative model and does not reflect an actual beachhead.
Russian Tank
Russian tank from a 20mm moderns demonstration game from a show that I can’t recall from the 1990s.
54mm D-Day
In the depths of the Nothe Fort in Weymouth (as well as a civillian nuclear bunker (now abandoned)) there is a really beautiful 54mm scale model of the D-Day landings. Lots of different models in there including an Horsa glider.
It is a representative model and does not reflect an actual beachhead.
UN Vehicles
These UN vehicles on patrol in an undefined African country.
Moving slowly, hoping that their highly identifiable white paintwork will protect them as much as camouflage would.
These photographs are from a demonstration game from a show in the 1990s.
World War Two Game
This photograph is from a demonstration game from a games show in the 1990s. I remember at the time thinking what great scenery and models, however I don’t recall the actual show… could have been Fisticuffs?
Normandy
This World War Two Normandy game was a demonstration game at a games show in the 1990s.
Looking back at my old photographs, I wish I had made a few notes as I now have no idea about the game, the background or even which show this was…
Back then I was using film and I would take only a few shots at a show. These days with digital I might take two or three hundred!
Cromwell
This Cromwell is at Bovington, well the photograph was taken fifteen years ago I think, so it was certainly there back then…
The Cromwell tank was one of the most successful series of cruiser tanks fielded by Britain in the Second World War. The Cromwell tank, named after the English Civil War leader Oliver Cromwell, was the first tank in the British arsenal to combine a dual-purpose gun, high speed from the powerful and reliable Meteor engine, and reasonable armour, all in one balanced package. Its design formed the basis of the Comet tank. However by the time the Cromwell first saw action in Normandy in many ways it was already out of date.
I am the process of painting some Cromwells for Flames of War.
I remember when I watched episode 4 of Band of Brothers
Overall the Cromwell was a welcome addition to the British, but as with many allied tanks, they were under armoured and under-gunned when faced with the German tanks of the same time period. Where the allies won out was in sheer numbers and probably more importantly logistics.