It took me significantly longer than I hoped, but I finally finished nineteen of the remaining twenty LDV figures.
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| Scottish Republican militia squad. |
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| LDV rifle squad. |
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| Close assault section. |
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| Command section. |
I had to do more conversion than I thought here. There are only enough P14/17 Springfield rifles in the kit to arm one LDV squad, which is why I ended up making an assault section with the Thompson SMGs, and added a mortar to the command team. A couple of the rifles also required some messing about with alternate arms, as the same left arms are used for both types of rifles and I had used all of the necessary ones on the first Enfield-armed unit. The left arms end at the wrist and there are hands already attached to the rifle barrels - I prefer kits where the arms and hands are entirely separate from the guns, as with most 40K kits. Too used to the conversion potential of 3rd edition 40K, I guess!
I also haven't based the prone figures - I should have bought oblong bases for them. I may put them on the round ones just to match the others, or I may let my brother figure it out. The next step is to box them up (safely, somehow), and ship them off to him. I haven't added much equipment, in part because I'm not sure where most of it goes, but "home guard" types may be assumed to be close to home to begin with, and in the universe of VBCW can probably call it off and go home for tiffin anyway...!
I've been slowly working my way through Playing At the World - currently in the very comprehensive section on the history of Kriegspiel. I have to send it back by next Friday, so will need to ask the Interlibrary Loan department to ask the other system if I can keep it longer. I'll be travelling next week and even if I wanted to bring it with me, it's too big! A packed tome with few illustrations, it invites careful perusal.
Have also been reading some Rosemary Sutcliff - a coworker checked in about a dozen of her books and offered them to me to check out before they return to their original branch. Finished The High Deeds of Finn MacCool and partway thru a volume on the Holy Grail.
I'm still waiting on a VBCW book and a pack of event cards for Went the Day Well?.
Til next time,
