Wednesday, October 30, 2013

BEF Engineer Company

Been doing quite a bit of work on my early war British collection lately, and this is the latest result. Each battalion in an infantry regiment has a platoon of engineers attached to the support company but they can be brought together to form a fully independent unit like this, which speeds up the time it takes to build field fortifications, bridging, etc


Except for the radio figure in the command platoon (Airfix), these are standard Zevezda figures modified to suit the engineer role.


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  1. Dave ROctober 30, 2013 at 5:25 PM

    very good Al .. You like the Zevezda range ?

    Dave R

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    1. AlOctober 30, 2013 at 7:06 PM

      Thanks Dave. I think Zevezda make excellent figures, and the BEF ones are well overdue in plastic. A few more poses would be nice though.

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  2. Paul FosterOctober 30, 2013 at 7:59 PM

    Tasty Al. very tasty!

    Nice one.

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  3. Luca TempestaOctober 30, 2013 at 9:37 PM

    good squad!
    bye

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  4. The Angry LurkerOctober 31, 2013 at 1:22 AM

    Very nice Al!

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  5. Joakim StrömOctober 31, 2013 at 3:52 AM

    Very nice conversions.
    I'm with you regaridng availability of BEF in plastic. I want more BEF!

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    1. AlNovember 1, 2013 at 5:50 PM

      Me too, the HaT additions seem a long time coming

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  6. PMDMOctober 31, 2013 at 8:38 AM

    Nice! And nicely painted, which I can appreciate; I'm a recent 1:72 convert courtesy of Stuart Asquith's Wargaming World War Two, and all of my 1:32 painting skills don't count for much! Still, nice to have so much armour to choose from, and it doesn't half make it easier to find space to wargame.

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    1. AlNovember 1, 2013 at 5:52 PM

      Thanks, I like 1/72 because you get a lot more on a small table space, nice getting to use your whole Tiger collection now and then :)

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  7. BirdyOctober 31, 2013 at 1:16 PM

    Supreme!!!

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  8. MikeOctober 31, 2013 at 10:33 PM

    Looking good; this company should come in handy in any number of scenarios.

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  9. Bill SlavinOctober 31, 2013 at 11:20 PM

    I could have used those in my Cassino Railway Station scenario, instead of enlisting a bunch of PIAT carriers! There's a full company (2 in reality) of engineers in play for that one. Nice work!

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    1. AlNovember 1, 2013 at 5:56 PM

      Cheers lads, know what you mean Bill, started converting figures a couple of years ago to achieve the sort of variety we needed for some of the scenarios we were playing.

      Thoughtful comments gang, cheers

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