Tuesday, 29 December 2020

20mm British Pioneers and Home Guard

I recently ordered a mixed lot of figures from Raventhorpe, which included a couple of packs of WW2 British pioneers (three figures per pack).  The figures are armed with a flamethrower, Bangalore torpedo and pole charge, making them really useful for lots of battlefield engineering tasks.





I also ordered a "special" Raventhorpe pack of familiar Home Guard infantry.  A pack of 9 figures, including an ARP warden, officer, medic and youthful Tommy gunner wearing a scarf, plus rifle armed volunteers with fixed bayonets and a Lewis gunner.


The officer.


Young Tommy gunner.


ARP warden.  Put those lights out.


Guard.


Medic.


Assorted troopers with rifles, Lewis gun and Molotov cocktail.  Just realised the guy with the Molotov appears to be smoking a fag, which makes him look like bit like a spiv.


All nice figures with good raised detail and easy to paint.  I shall need to source quite a few more Home Guard types to make up a platoon, so will scan the manufacturers to see what is on offer.

Thanks for looking.


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4 comments:

  1. Tales from Shed HQ1 January 2021 at 18:14

    Excellent! Always fancied a pack of the Home Guard after playing the Incident at Fearnley Whittingstall game at Richard C's last Christmas. These look great and I will definitely have to pick a pack up at some point.

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    1. Andy Canham2 January 2021 at 20:03

      Thanks Mr P. Sealion would make a great campaign or weekend game.

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    2. Tales from Shed HQ3 January 2021 at 10:07

      Sounds like a plan 👍 Been looking at 20mm options for some of the stuff in that Bad Squiddo CoC book. Things like the Sgts Mess Scout Group in place of the Girl Guides.

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    3. Andy Canham3 January 2021 at 19:09

      I was thinking about nuns in 20mm for 5th columnists or paratroopers. Some of the Irregular armed civilians would work well as 5th columnists or early LDV volunteers.

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