Major offensive in the works for a Flames of War style campaign

 So I've finally gotten a Flames of War rule book from Battlefront Miniatures. Now while the scale for the game is 15mm, and most of my collections are 1/72, I'm still going to use them in this gaming system as my collection is so large.

Henceforth when I want to fight big battles I will use Flames of war, and skirmishes with Bolt action.

Should be fun 

Battlefront Miniatures Soviet Armoured Regiment starter

oh I'm so giddy

 Like the British, I have bought a late war Soviet Armoured force. My main goal is to turn the kits into units for the Korean war as well as some Arab wars and earlier cold war scenarios. 

I have built a 76mm gun. 

Battlefront Miniatures British Armoured Division

 So I took the plunge and bought a British Armoured starter set from Battlefront Miniatures. The store I get my Team Yankee kits from had an over abundance of starter sets. The first one i have picked up is to start an Armoured force.

It includes lots which i have wanted and will build up. I will consider making this force late war and also to be used for The Korean War as well.

One of the other ideas I have is to fight the campaign for the Schelt, and over the Rhineland in 1945.

Tanks from this force will also be used as the basis of a Jordanian force as well.

Juno beach exhibit Halifax Citadel summer 2020

 

German pin ups

the inside of a bunker

Part of Hitler's Atlantic wall, which Rommel did his best with what he had 

Barbed wire

What my grandfather saw a lot of

A box of what were probably grenades 

Breached wall

As the Third Division troops saw as they came ashore

About to disembark 

How they managed to do this, they were lucky if they made it to the bunker.

53rd Welsh Division takes on 9th SS past Caen July 1944

covering both sides, I'm wearing my Luftwaffen Field cap and my British Army Desert DPM

the battlefield, some town in Normandy

one of the objectives is the church. Right off the bat, the British open fire on the church tower taking out the sniper

Cromwells, Churchills, and Comets begin to advance

a solo Dailmer advances up the road

British HQ

German forces consist of a 9th Waffen SS group 

while the unit is small, its powerful with very heavy tanks.

Thoughts on factions for A Very British Civil War

I recently bought the film, The King's Speech and got to thinking that the factions I am going to field are going to be interesting.
First The Royalists: these are troops with the title Royal in their name. However, the Artillery may fracture.
British Union of Facists: Mosley's troops, who as the new British prime minister will have his Blackshirt support with an Expeditionary force from German and Italy.
The Albertists: Monarchy support for Prince Albert, I am going to have a large Canadian 8Australian support there.
The Anglican League: Chirch of England supporters who will support a monarch who truly represents the best I interests of the church.
The Scottish Army: Scottish Regiments who have deserted the British army and have sworn to support a government which will give Scotland her independence or a special form in a revised union.
Tje Socialists: Social and Communist inspired units,
I'm going to be fielding a game shortly on the subject

The Anglican League and the Albertists faction are holding on to a town.

Albertists from Alberta!

Albertists assault the Italian provided armoured cars, destroying them with grenades

German Expeditanry Force attempt to take the church

BUF with German and Italian supplied weapons

Royalist and British Union of Facists

The Royalists and BUF kept up an aggressive attack on the town but were badly beaten by the Anglicans and Albertists. Despite lacking heavy weapons, they used what they had and grenades to take out the Facists tanks. Seeing as to the damage inflicted, the Facists fell back.

The uprising continues!

Cromwells in Normandy 1944

 I will get my painted one up shortly 

So I've been slowly building up my kits that my Navy veteran buddy passed over.

 painted, decals and hedge cutter

Before I left Japan, I had bought and built a Cromwell MkIV which had decals for the 7th Armoured Division and the Cromwell kit from Airfix had decals for the 5th Royal Horse Artillery.
Now I got to thinking. Why would an Artillery battery have a tank. I believe that they were used as observation vehicles.
However, for my own force, I'm going to use both as infantry support as medium anti tank self propelled guns.
The extra decals for the 11th Armoured Division I will put on other tanks I have.

and since I now have this set, I shall take a second look at my collection to see how I can do them up

Between 1/72 and 15mm I'm all set

To which I've decided that I will decal both Cromwells as 7th Armoured Division marked as C Squadron of the lead Regiment..