VBCW PAC (5)

At long last some photo's!  These show the latest progress on the VBCW PAC (Very British Civil War People's Assault Column), which has been to decorate the bases.

I'm not sure whether they look too crowded now ... anyway, the next & final step will be to spray them with a matt varnish to put a sealing layer on the basing and remove the gloss from the army painter dip.

This first pic show the standard bearer from the Empress Miniatures "Miliciana Female militia including LMG team" pack from their Spanish Civil War Republican range (pack MIL9) with the standard I concocted for her

Next, from Ironclad Miniatures, are a Policeman & Fireman

Here we have Ironclad's Miner Command Pack consisting of a sergeant and officer

L- Sergeant   R- Officer

The two banner bearers from the Sloppy Jalopy Miners pack

 Finally, a Lewis gun team; the gunner is from Sloppy Jalopy and the number two from Ironclad

As a note, my PAC originates from Portsmouth - hence the Portsmouth flags - and Hampshire has no history of mining ... well, with that said, I think there was some mining for flint in pre-history, but definitely none with any relevance to the VBCW.  So, I've taken a knife to the Ironclad miners' helmets and converted them to (resemble) bowler hats, so they won't be the same as the pictures on Ironclad's website.  If you look at my pic of the Miners' command figures above, the sergeant had a miner's helmet and the office a bowler hat

VBCW PAC (4)

I applied the dip to the VBCW PAC (People's Assault Column) last night as the game I had been going to play at the Winchester club was postponed until next week.

I did all the figures I've painted so far and there are a few photos of some of them below.  The standards all came from threads at the VBCW forum, where their creators had published them.

Standard Bearers

I applied the dip using a brush - it gives less wastage than actual dipping IMO - and painted the paper standards as well. I've not done this before and am pleased with how they've come out.

2 Sloopy Jalopy on the L, 2 Ironclad on the R

 My favourites I think are the Empress Miniatures "Miliciana Female militia including LMG team" pack from their Spanish Civil War Republican range (pack MIL9):

Yet to do a standard for the one on the R!

If I need any more infantry, I think I'll get some more from this range.

Next step is to decorate bases, then matt varnish spray. Then the vehicles and support teams ...

VBCW PAC (3)

I've managed quite a bit of painting since my post about motivation and the PAC (People's Assault Column) has now 37 figures past the first stage - next stage is applying the 'magic' dip.  The vehicle I'd been waiting for to use with them arrived at the weekend too, and I'm re-purposing a resin vehicle I've had for a while as well.

So, do I now keep going with the painted stuff to finish them, or start painting the Boyes team, HMG and vehicles?

Decisions, decisions ....

VBCW PAC (2)

Some reinforcements for my VBCW PAC (People's Assault Column) arrived over the weekend. Specifically, from Footsore Miniatures' 28mm Inter War Period 1918-1939 range, a  Militia Boys Anti-Tank Team:

and a Workers Militia HMG Team:

They should give my force some much needed punch!

I also got Footsore's 1930-40's Rural Types:

which will come in handy for some of the events on the Went the Day Well event card deck that I finished making at the weekend.

I painted the Firemen, Female Militia and made progress on the utility vehicle, but they aren't ready to show yet.

Finally, it needs to be pointed out that my PAC, contrary to fascist propaganda, are socialists and not communists!

All photos in this post are from Footsore Miniatures' website and used without permission

VBCW PAC (1)

It has been pointed out to me that my prospective opponent has a BUF (British Union of Fascists) force ready & waiting to take on my Socialist PAC (People's Assault Column).

For the basic background of the VBCW click on this link to go a post on the VBC Forum; similarly, click on this link to see a post with the list of factions.

So, with that in mind, time to stop progressing the buildings and begin on the troops. The majority of the figures I have so far, are from Ironclad Miniatures VBCW range, with most of them being Miners

Ironclad Mini's Miners

The pic above shows 2 packs of miners with rifles in the back row & in the front from left to right, the 2 miner bombers, the 2 miner command & the 2 man miner lewis team

I also have Sloppy Jalopy's pack "The Miners" which are the 11 figures in the pic below with white bases,  Most of the pack have separate heads - can't remember exactly how many though ...

Also in the pic are a pilot from the Back of Beyond pilot pack and the last figure from the Pulp Figures pack I used for my Back of Beyond White Russian command group; I may use them in the VBCW force - not sure at the moment though.

As well as the miners, I have some firemen & armed police from Ironclad, and a female militia pack from Empress Miniatures Spanish Civil War Republican range :

As you can see they have yet to be undercoated.

I've also got a couple of vehicles on the go; in the pic below, on the left is Reiver Castings' Tyneside Uitility [sic] Recce Vehicle (Tracked) and on the right is some of a partially assembled Croydon Crusher (the miner is there as a size guide)

So, painting these begins tonight!