Hi guys,

I signed up to this one late but thought I still might be able to complete in time.

I picked up these figures in the everything for a £ box form a vendor at the Milton Keynes Model show a coulpe of years ago. Manufacture is unknown to me but as they were priced at £10.00 and I bargined for less and got them for £2.50p I though that was OK.

Don't know specifically when or where I'll use them, probably when I get around to some WW1 armour or vehicles, Maybe the RR? Anyway here's the set:






Consisting of an Officer, Tanker and Crewman (?)













I'l see how they turn out.

Al

With some glue on.





Might try and add some legs onto the 3/4 figure.

Al

Hey Al,
Not much out there in the way of WWI vehicles, a sorely ignored era !!
Interesting figures, I don't recognize them at all, no clue here as to who made them.
Emhar did a small range of British tanks, a Male, a Female, a Hermaphrodite (their Mk. #'s escape me) and a Whippet.
IIRC, the detailing on all the kits was soft and the vinyl tracks were the worst feature of the kits.
I believe Accurate Armour or Cromwell did replacement track sets.
The Whippet was apparently the best kit of the bunch, not sure if the company still exists though ??
Tauro from Italy used to make a couple of A7V German tanks and a range of figures, OOP by now I believe.
ICM does/did a couple of figure sets, British and German but I've never seen a build of them.
Interesting idea for a Campaign though !!
Cheers

jjumbo

update: Here's a few kits available in your neck of the woods:
ICM's British Tommies
ICM's Stormtroopers
Emhar's Whippet

and on this side of the pond:
Ehmar's range

Hi John,

WW1 is something I'd like to get into sometime in he future. Just bought these chaps on the spur of the moment.

Added some legs to the tanker, he comes with two heads one with a tankers helmet and face mask. They wore a blueish or black set of tankers coverallls. Need to tidy up the legs and remove pockets etc but I prefer him with legs.

Al

Hey Al,
They look good, could be used as pre or early WWII figures.
Check my first post for the updates I found on WWI kits.
Would that RR you mentioned be the Roden Rolls Royce ??
Cheers

jjumbo

Hi John,

I have both the Roden and the Resicast Versions. I'll await further developments on the WW1 tank front to see if anything new comes along. A whippet might be fun, but If I remember correctly replacing the tracks would buy about 10 vehicles lol, lol.

Al

Hi Guys,

My apologies here, this is actually a campaign in the figure forum I joined thinking it was one being run here I had missed!!!

Anyway progress so far on the figs.



Al

Hi Alan, in the last pic the driver looks like he's doing a Tommy Cooper impression " just like that", maybe there is a caption somewhere.

Hi Phil,



Your right . I assume he was made for some specific vehicle but I have no idea which one, needs a tool or something in his hands, Legs look OK I think although they need a little more work.

Cheers

Al

Hi folks,

These two are about done, the standing tanker needs more work on his coveralls and maybe a change of arms . But I'll leave him for now:











Al

Hey Al,
Your figures get better and better with each posting.
I don't know why you M & B about them, I wish mine looked half as good !!
Cheers

jjumbo

Thanks John, but I don't quite get that one?

Al

Hey Al,
Sorry about that, I was using some local Canadian slang.
M for moan[ing] & B for b*tch[ing].
You tend to put down the quality of your figures.
I only wish mine would turn out as nicely.
Cheers

jjumbo

Thanks!

Always room for improvement John, that's all The 3rd chap, the tanker needs more work on the coveralls as I didn't clean up the new legs well enough and some of the pixi suit detail is still showing through. The other 2 I'm pretty happy with.

Cheers

Al

Al this is really just practice for the Sherman Campaign isn't it ?

Paul

Hi Paul,

Practice is already underway in the M32B1 build lol, lol. I just discovered some LionMarc 1/35 bolt heads for the Sherman boggies so can fix a few of my previous efforts.

Cheers

Al