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28mm British Tanks – Warfare 2015

Here are some more photographs from the Warfare 2015 Show in Reading. These images are from a 28mm Demonstration Game set in the latter part of the second world war.

British Cromwell tank moves along a French road in the face of a German defensive line.

Cromwell Tank

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.

Cromwell Tank

Slow and heavy, but with much better armour the Churchill was a different tank to the faster Cromwell. Probably remembered more for the variants and “funnies” that used the tank as a base vehicle.

Churchill Tank

Okay not a tank, but an M5 Half Track disembarking infantry to support the tanks in the bocage.

M5 Half Track

Overall a great looking game and some nice models.

Bolt Action Commando 3" Mortar Team

As well as my Bolt Action Partisans, I am in the process of building a Commando team to fight alongside them. I am also going to use them as UNIT troops for some Doctor Who scenarios that I have been thinking about.

As well as the plastic boxed set I also have a couple of blisters, a Mortar Team and the Vickers MMG Team.

The 3″ Mortar Team. comes in a blister pack and is made of metal.

Bolt Action Commando 3" Mortar Team

They look like nice clean castings.

Bolt Action Commando Vickers MMG Team

As well as my Bolt Action Partisans, I am in the process of building a Commando team to fight alongside them. I am also going to use them as UNIT troops for some Doctor Who scenarios that I have been thinking about.

As well as the plastic boxed set I also have a couple of blisters, a Mortar Team and the Vickers MMG Team.

The Vickers MMG Team. comes in a blister pack and is made of metal.

Commando Vickers MMG Team

The first stage will be to construct and base the models, before giving them a white undercoat.

15mm Plastic Cromwell Tanks

15mm Plastic Cromwell Tanks

The Plastic Solider Company have announced their release of a set of 15mm scale Cromwell tanks.

15mm Cromwell kit – 5 models for £18.95. Each sprue gives an option to build a 95mm howitzer close support variant and has a British commander figure and a Cullen hedgecutter.

Really quite like the idea of these models and they are very cost effective  too.

Column of Sherman Tanks

Another photograph of a column of Simon’s British Sherman Tanks move along the cobbled streets of a Normandy village.

British Shermans in column moving down a cobbled street in Normandy. Roads and buildings are from Battlefront.
British Shermans in column moving down a cobbled street in Normandy. Roads and buildings are from Battlefront.
British Shermans, pass by a fountain in Normandy. The fountain, roads and buildings are from Battlefront.
British Shermans, pass by a fountain in Normandy. The fountain, roads and buildings are from Battlefront.

Buildings and roads are from Battlefront. The fountain, outbuildings and walls were  the extras that you got if you subscribed to the Battlefront house deal.