I am going to apologize up front for not having done any serious research ahead of time. I do not typically do any figures.

Are there any 1/35 figures that either accurately represent or could easily be made into Home Guard ? I am building the AA Bedford OYD Armadillo and would like a Home Guard (LDV) crew ... I do have a reference on uniforms & equipment to work with ...

TIA,
John

Hi John

Home Guard uniforms were generally the same as the regular army, except that they were issued with the denim version of battle dress rather than the khaki serge. The denim is a much greener colour. Webbing and stuff was similar too, though sometimes with different cartridge carriers to reflect the fact that the Home Guard often got .30 rifles rather than .303.

As a quick source of photos, just stick 'Home Guard' in the Subject box and select Second World War in the Period drop-down. Plenty of photos to look at! By a strange coincidence you get a picture of the Home Guard outside Springfield Church on the first page of results, and it's not far from where I live!

IWM Collections

Weapons might be a sticking point as the Home Guard got obsolete stuff like the P14, saving the SMLEs for the regular army.

Or you could look for stuff on the old BBC series 'Dad's Army' which went to a fair bit of trouble to get the right look....

David

Hi John,

Early or late war? There are no specific figures that I can think of but there are one or two that might fit in. Try Hornet and Wolf:

http://www.greenwichgateway.com/hornetandwolf/index.htm

There's a figure in there in early DB best I can remember, standing hands on hips with an SD Cap

and Accurate Armour do a chap sitting down drink beer!!!

If it's very early you could use some civilians with broom sticks or shotguns :-) :-) :-)

The home guard didn't have uniforms or kit until some time after they were formed so civilians with appropriate arm bands would do.

The kit they had was also difference from regular army stuff, smaller ammo pouches and the later BD might have been slightly different. I'd have to check back.

The Regular Army took on the roll of Home Defence after Dunkirk, the Tamiya kit with the long bayonets would make suitable figures, you'd have to look at the ammo puoches though if you wanted Home Guard

Try the IWM site for photo's:

http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/

Best I can do at the moment.

Cheers

Al

Dad's Army used binocular pouches from the '37 web set instead of ammo pouches, which I don't think the real home guard did, apart from that the uniforms are spot on.
Tamiya British Infantry with no pouches maybe and with Springfields from the tamiya allied weapons set might look the part.

Thanks guys, as I said, I have several HG/LDV references, I was just hoping for a quick solution to some base figures to use ... Guess it won't be that simple ... I don't think the civilians will work with the Bedford OYD Armadillo ...

John