SnapForce Motorised Column

Lieutenant Colonel Snapcase's motorised column arrives at Kashgar.

The Cheka arrive in Jhamjarhistan

I have set up the scenery for Jhamjarhistan. The village on the left is Gummibad (where the missionaries are), in the centre is the archaeological dig site (Lemmers, Streppers and Bunty Hamster-Crust, Vagger’s heart-throb) by the old watch tower and top right is where the Emir of Jhamjarhistan hangs out in Djelibad. This is just a set-up for photos, the real game will be on a bigger table later in the year.

Jhamjarhistan

Also, a Cheka unit for the Bolo player. They will be no good for fighting but ideal for torture and execution of prisoners! I sent this photo to Doug (who is playing Trotsky in the game) and this is his reply:

"They are certainly the boys to send tremors of terror through all counter-revolutionaries, traitors, imperialists, priests, revanchists, social-democrats and similar offal and pig-dung. The People’s Revolution is well guarded by such heroes."

Of course, they arrive on site singing their traditional Cheka anthem:

Meet the Cheka ’cause the boys are here —
The boys to persecute you.
With torture and slaughter to help you on your way —
To raising the rafters with a hey-hey-hey!
With knives and skewers and whips old and new —
With us about you won’t feel blue!

So meet the Cheka ’cause the boys are here —
The boys to persecute you!
B – O,  B – O – Y – S, boys to persecute you!

The Cheka

WRAFs in Peshawar

Part of this project has been to paint figures I already owned. I bought quite a few 'Home Front' figures in Annie's kickstarter (Bad Squidoo) and wanted to include them in this project. It's a rather tenuous link but that's just me!

So, we have already learnt the following from a previous post:

“That’s it in a nutshell, Tuffers”, replied Agnew, “and the thing is, engines are tricky blighters on the best of days. We need a performing troop of your oily-rag mechanics led by your good self to see us in clover, as it were”. “Ah, I see old horse, you may be in luck there, it just so happens that I have some drivers and mechanical types on loan from the crabs, just arrived off the old banana boat and raring to go, just need some more of the old throat oil to seal the deal, as it were”, offered Tufnell. “Take them with you and everything in the garden will be oojah-cum-spiff”.

Well, the Engineers Captain wasn’t wrong. He did indeed have some highly qualified bods in mind. The bods in question had arrived in Peshawar, somewhat bemused after their long journey. They were all members of the Women’s Royal Air Force and had not been expecting to be posted abroad, let alone to the dangerous environs of the North West Frontier. Upon their arrival, Tuffers had telegraphed back to blighty to see what the devil was going on. It transpired that some loathsome oik in the clerk’s office had made a typing error after a night on the tiles. The WRAF types were required at RAF Peshawar, an aerodrome in the vicinity of Walthamstow. The dozy oik had typed in Peshawar as the destination and here they were in British India. Tuffers had no idea what to do with them until Aggers had turned up out of the blue, looking for oily rags. Serendipity or what, he had thought.

Inset: Leading Aircraftwoman Honeysuckle Weeks and Aircraftwoman Perdita Weeks.

Main photo L to R: Aircraftwoman Gina Bellman, Leading Aircraftwoman Suranne Jones, Corporal Joanna Lumley, Squadron Leader Philomena Cunk, Aircraftwoman Liza Goddard, Aircraftwoman Liz Fraser and Leading Aircraftwoman Lynda Bellingham.

An unexpected arrival in Peshawar!

The Diggers

No, not the Australians! Diggers for Lord Creosote's archaeological dig outside Djelibad.

I Won a Prize!

I have won a prize! Can’t bloody believe it.

Wargames Illustrated ran a competition for painting one of their Giants in Miniature range.

https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/gimcomp/ 

https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/product-category/giants-in-miniature/

I entered my GiM Flashheart which I painted along with Blackadder etc, for my AshLAM ’19 game, ‘Gentlemen, We Will Stand and Fight’.

Captain Edmund Blackadder,  Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh,  Driver Parkhurst and  Squadron Commander Lord Flashheart.

I was the runner-up in the Best Unit/Scenic category. I have won three months access to the on-line mag and my choice of three GiM figures.

I can't remember the last time I won a prize in a competition!