HAT British Machine Gunners
Al from 20th Century Wargames http://20thcenturywargames.blogspot.com/ popped in for about 30 seconds yesterday afternoon. He dropped off a few figures from HAT's British Machine Gun set. I think he suggested to use them for my BEF 1940 army the other week, but I may have been a little tipsy. Not wanting to mix these 1/72 figures with my Airfix and Matchbox 1/76 warriors I think I will put them with a 1941 Greece/Crete Allied force I have been plodding on with over the last few years. As you may have noticed I have already converted one of the Boy's AT gunner's with a slouch hat from Revell's Australian Infantry set, and it was a perfect match much to my delight.
It also gave me a chance to get rid of a horrid surrender monkey contained in the Revell set, he's bad for morale you know! Cheers Al.
Al from 20th Century Wargames http://20thcenturywargames.blogspot.com/ popped in for about 30 seconds yesterday afternoon. He dropped off a few figures from HAT's British Machine Gun set. I think he suggested to use them for my BEF 1940 army the other week, but I may have been a little tipsy. Not wanting to mix these 1/72 figures with my Airfix and Matchbox 1/76 warriors I think I will put them with a 1941 Greece/Crete Allied force I have been plodding on with over the last few years. As you may have noticed I have already converted one of the Boy's AT gunner's with a slouch hat from Revell's Australian Infantry set, and it was a perfect match much to my delight.
It also gave me a chance to get rid of a horrid surrender monkey contained in the Revell set, he's bad for morale you know! Cheers Al.
Great stuff! I had to buy them! Simple, but fine conversion. Keep working!
ReplyDeleteCheers to you too. Will complete some mmg teams on the weekend, hopefully! I liked the Defiant, kind of nice to see others have issues with decals:)
ReplyDeleteA well chosen figure a fodder for a conversion project :)
ReplyDeleteThe "surrender" pose haunts many an otherwise good set of plastic figures
you could turn the surrendering fig into a casualty....
ReplyDeleteThere should only be one surrender pose in a box of figures and only a total of one casting of it provided (if there has to be one at all), not multiples surrending and/or multiples of the one surrendering pose!
ReplyDeleteI *really* want to find a use for my Boys' gunners, but I doubt I will.
ReplyDeleteYou should paint that guy up and then splash red around the neck and shoulders, then keep him on the sidelines of your games. He'll be an object lesson as to what the enemy does to prisoners and your men will fight the harder for it.
Cheers for the comments.
ReplyDeleteTotal agreement on the surrender poses, I must sort out a competition of making good use of crap figures.