#avbcw

So earlier today I got my 28mm scale WW1 British Army QF13-Pounder from Great War Miniatures, via North Star Figures.

First time I built an artillery piece cast out of metal. Lots of the little bits of flash I remember the old metal GW models having, so I had to remove them. The worst bit though: no instructions. Not even online. I had to go around Google Images looking up pictures of the actual QF 13-pounder to find out how everything went.

The fretting was worse than the actual construction though. Everything went together pretty damn easily. Had to wiggle the gunshield around the barrel though, but nothing too tedious. I have somehow lost the handle bar that goes onto the rear beam, though I can fashion an ad hoc one out of a length of paper clip.

Sandbags are simply from Renedra and the wall is going to get progressively higher once I get the crew in.

I forgot to post a picture of them last week, but (barring the BA-6 armoured car in the middle) these are the four diecast metal cars I bought at the local car boot sale last Sunday.

Throughout the week, I was slightly panicking because I was really unsure whether their size would be right for 28mm gaming, even though I’d had a 28mm model next to one of them for scale, but now I see that my worries were pretty unfounded. Now I just have to superglue the wheels properly so they don’t roll around and maybe repaint the vehicles a bit. I know I can use the two green vehicles as transports for the different forces in 1938: A Very British Civil War.

Had a little extra time before I needed to leave for work, so I decided to do a bit of a repaint on my Warlord Games’ BA-6 Armoured Car for the Communist/People’s Assault Column forces in 1938: A Very British Civil War.