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Good afternoon all!

My lovely trip to Eden Camp earlier today has put me in the mood to spend some money on toy soldiers. I've got a few ideas in mind, and one of them is my own flavour of 'A Very British Civil War' with BKC.

I've looked at Mr Harwood's 10mm Pendraken miniatures and that's the way I want to go, but I'm a little at a loss as to what miniatures he has used and what would be suitable. I know Pendraken have a growing AVBCW on their webstore but there are only a few packs listed under that, I imagine the rest will need to come from either their WW2, WW1 or Inter-war collections.

Just to give me some ideas, which of Pendraken's miniatures would work best for:

Union and/or Communist worker-style militia?

and

[B] Fascist government-supported Blackshirts?


For the Blackshirts, I was thinking of representing the infantry with WW1 British troops in caps, for that fascist uniform look. For the worker's militia, perhaps a mixture from the Spanish Civil War ranges? I just don't want them to look too, well, Spanish!


Thanks,

Fletch

Hi Fletch - you're right - I've used a mix of WW1 & 2 as well as SCW figures in all my forces. The Socialists [not painted yet] were largely WW2 Russians from the bits box together with some SCW; the BUF predominantly WW1 Germans with a few WW2 thrown in for good measure; Nationalist Yeomanry [also not painted yet] are WW1 Brits with some WW2 as well - including Home Guard & EW figures.

My lists look like this:

Luttrell Yoemanry:
CO, 2 x HQ
6 Regulars, 1 Sniper, 3 A/T Rifle
1 Lanchester A/C
1 Whippet
1 Vickers MkII
1 Vickers Mk Vi
1 MkIV male 6 pdrs
1 MkIV female MGs
2 Cavalry

BUF:
CO, 2 x HQ
6 Regulars, 2 Snipers, 3 A/T Rifle, 1 Mortar
2 PzI
2 L3/35
1 Erhardt A/C
2 Cavalry

Socialists:
CO, 2 x HQ
12 Militia
2 T26
2 Cavalry
[armoured train to be added at some point]

Anglican League:
CO, HQ
6 Militia
2 ATG

Brigands:
CO, 2 x HQ
4 Cavalry
2 Snipers
6 Militia
3 Quads
3 Motorcycles
2 Rolls Royce A/C

If you're after codes I can post my orders if you like...

That would be useful

I'll second that would be very useful

Okeydokey - I'll dig 'em out tomorrow night...

Right - bit of a dealy, but better late than never...copied below everything I ordered for my AVBCW stuff - which was supplemented by the odd thing from the bits box:

1 x BP1 Infantry in cap
1 x BP5 British cavalry in cap
1 x BP8 Whippet tank
1 x BP11 60pdr crew in hat
1 x BP21 Trench raiders
1 x BP25 MkIV Male
1 x BP26 MkIV Female

1 x ME18 Lanchester A/C
2 x ME20 Rolls Royce A/C
1 x IW3 Vickers Medium MkII
1 x WW1 - despatch rider
1 x ITA2 C33/35 Tankette

1 x BR63 Humber staff car
1 x BR106 Vickers MkIVb
4 x BR110 Early War Quad
1 x BR142 BEF Officers
1 x BR144 Boyes A/T
1 x BR155 Home Guard, rifle
1 x BR157 Home Guard, Lewis gun
1 x BR161 Home Guard/Civ, rifle, side cap, firing
1 x BR162 Home Guard/Civ, rifle, side cap, kneeling
1 x BR163 Home Guard/Civ Officer, pistol

1 x GP2 Infantry
1 x GP6 Storm troopers
1 x GP9 21cm Morser Lang How
1 x GP14 German cavalry in helmet, lance
1 x GP18 Trench raiders
1 x GP32 Erhardt A/C

1 x GR77 PzI
1 x GR213 Officers
1 x GR226 A/T rifle

1 x SV57 Motorcycle despatch riders
2 x SV58 T-26

1 x SCV1 1920s/30s truck
1 x SCV3 Armoured Republican Truck
1 x SCW8 Miliciano, standing, firing, mono

1 x SCW65 NCO, waving forward, zcazadora, jerkin, beret
1 x SCW 118 Mounted with rifle on lap, leather jacket, Durruti cap (5)
1 x SCW 120 Foot, standing firing, greatcoat, blanket roll, balaklava

1 x SCW128 Gen Miaja
1 x SCW129 Lt Col Copic
1 x SCW130 Gen Franco
1 x SCW131 Gen Yague
1 x SCW 143 Officer, capote manta, walking
1 x SCW 144 Holding rifle, capote manta, walking

Cool - thanks for that Nik (despite the dealy )

Yeah - dealy's are a nightmare...Deeley's on the other hand, are lovely - especially those of the Cat variety:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3wJVAXfYigA/SSrZ_91FV...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5RfBlwSI5Cc/R89OK0TnR...

Nik - thanks for the info and for Cat

Will you be coming to the Pendraken 20th bash in the North East?

Nik - thanks for the info and for Cat

Will you be coming to the Pendraken 20th bash in the North East?

Yep - certainly planning to...am busy deciding quite what game to put on [too many choices!]

Excellent - would love to see you put on an AVBCW game but anything will do if you are using BKC2

Look forward to meeting you and thanking you in person for all the help you offer us folks on the forums.

If you do it in 3mm, you can use pretty much whatever infantry you like.