Cherilea's 60mm 8th Army; I suspect the
were sculpted by the same guy responsible for the outrageous UN set and
slightly manic East/Central/King's African Rifles, but he was clearly improving
with each stab at the art, and these are really quite nice, a bit gawkey, while
the running guy has some Dr. Who
weapon or something, but they'll do!
I have to thank Bill from Moonbase Central
for the well-painted kneeling guy who was one of the first to join the squad
about ten years ago . . . I know I keep asking it, but where does the bloody
time go?!! It just sort of leaks away . . . whole years of it . . . while
you're not looking!
Colour variation in the prone
grenade-thrower and a re-issue to the right.
Another nicely painted one and another re-issue,
I think the left-hand one was from this year's (or last year's) Plastic Warrior
show? It's a new addition anyway, and another Brno-Enfield .303" LMG! I've
fired them, a reassuring series of steady thuds to the shoulder and a solid,
regular, heavy sound, but a 30-round magazine was no match for those
'Spandau's', they fed rounds into the field-of-battle like Satan's seed-drills!
As an aside; the old factory building for
MG34/42's was about two-hundred yards from Wavell Barracks, and you could walk
past it on your way into town, it was a slightly 'long-way' but only a minute or
so, and you could see the age and signs of the Allied bombing/Soviet finality
in what was left of the outer wall's brickwork.
Although by then it was being used for
storage or car-mechanics or something . . . I have a feeling it was the local dairy? It was a bit like an old French farm in
the middle of low-rise concrete flats, long, low workshop/stable type buildings
round a central walled yard. At least . . . we were told it was the old Spandau
machine-gun works!
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