Wednesday 11 January 2023

Great War Spearhead II in 20mm. The support weapons of the British Infantry Corps in WW1.


I´ve just finished rebasing a full British infantry division and supporting artillery and waiting for the arrival of a few boxes of Hat Canadians to make the missing division. I´ll show you these in a next video. In the meantime, and as an appetizer, here goes some tanks, command  and mortar stands. 


The Mark I tanks are Airfix with no change but the anti-grenade cover for the one in the middle. 


For a staff car this old timer will do. I already found a few in the local fish market that were converted for French and Belgian WW2 staff cars. The only serious change was the wheels, replaced by 3d printed ones (even if not correct).


The figures are Airfix artillerymen for the seated figures and Emhar for the officers. The one to the right got some Evergreen in its shorts and became a proper Western front Officer.  


For a much better model of a true British staff car you have the Roden Vauxhaull D-type.


The 6" Newton mortar is Hat and crew comes from converted old Aifix and Emhar artillery box. 


The Emhar mortar doesn´t have a bipod and got an Evergreen one...


...as well as all the others, based on the Airfix Stokes, the one with the ugly triangular with full plastic piece as a bipod.


The crew are all sorts of plastics, Emhar, Airfix Infantry (including the medic) and Airfix Horse Artillery. 


Emhar Brigade command stands with the helmeted figures converted from shorts to trousers. 

Next: Maybe the video of the WW1 British Corps.  

4 comments:

  1. Fabulous mate, I regularly convert the old cars myself!

    Cheers
    Matt

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  2. Thanks Matt. I´ll try to grab some more.

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  3. Excellent conversions. They look so good once painted and based too.
    Regards, James

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  4. Thanks James. I got recently two boxes of Hat Canadians and, with a few Emhar, they will be the basis of the rest of the corps.

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