MODELLING CHALLENGE 2021 - UP YOUR MORALE!

With the Spring Big Game 2021 fast approaching, its time for the Modelling Challenge 2021 - create a model on the chosen theme and the Umpires will allow you to score over your 1938 VBCW enemies and play it at the next Big Game as a free addition to your usual "Went the Day Well?" sized force.

In 2018, we got our feet wet with the Maritime Modelling Challenge. In 2019, we swapped keels for tracks with the Armour Modelling Challenge, which challenge duly expanded (courtesy of "Bearwoodman" of the LAF) from Herefordshire into the 40K Universe. In 2020, we returned to earth (or at least a few thousand feet above it) with the Aircraft and Anti Everything Challenge, with lots of VBCW "air fleets" being created from some "cheep Chinese plastic" toys picked up from Ebay.

Usually, we'd distribute the chosen "cheep Chinese plastic" donor toy at the Spring Big Game for use at the Autumn Big Game, but for some unaccountable reason (after all, precious little else has been going on) this year the Chinese plastics industry has lamentably failed to come up with a new 1930s(ish) war toy in 1/55 scale(ish) at a price of close to zero. Hence, instead of a cheep piece of plastic, this year we give you a high value concept - but still for free! 

Time for some morale boosting bodging in the Modelling Challenge 2021 - "Up your Morale!"

It all started when Umpire Roo, in the depths of last year's lockdown, disclosed that he was building "a 28mm Tea Van". Unarmed, unarmoured, no doubt crewed by WI ladies or similar - how could such a VBCW vehicle be of any use in a Big Game?

A Tea Van - Roo's model may or may not resemble this 1/1 scale VBCW creation.

Not to be outdone, but still at a loss as to how it might prove useful, Umpire Clive announced that he had acquired a suitable vehicle for conversion to "an Ice Cream Van" - while Staff Captain Maynard (Alan) produced the concept of - ahem - "a Coach with a not entirely respectable purpose (and even less respectable crew)". Less said about the precise details, the better, at least for now (this is the 1930s).

Weaponless and lacking any kind of defence, such vehicles could only be useful for one purpose - raising the morale of your own troops. Thus the 2021 Challenge - while the Umpires continue to work on suitable rules (which will undoubtedly involve a D6 and the back of an envelope) - can you produce a morale raising vehicle (or other 28mm model) for your Autumn Big Game 2021 force?

Clearly, the Ledbury BUF have already got in on the act with their Propaganda Van, but the field of potential morale boosters is wide - nobody has mentioned "a beer lorry" as yet, nor a mobile Pulpit (very morale raising if you're an Anglican):

while it may be that your chaps are literary types, whose morale would benefit from some suitable reading material from a travelling library:

Any concept is acceptable for the Challenge as long as it can be plausibly argued to be 'morale raising' for your force. And the wilder the concept, the more likely it is to inspire your troops!

So wild it doesn't even fit in to "the 1938 Universe" - LAF Bearwoodman's 40K take on the 2019
Armour Modelling Challenge - a "Nurgled Super Shoddy" 

Note : the Mobile Pulpit and BUF Travelling Library are the inspirational work of "6MilPhil" whose (sadly no longer updated) blog is HERE.