The long delayed Hereford VBCW Spring Big Game 2021 is now just eight weeks away! With all Covid restrictions to be lifted by 21st June 2021, Saturday 3rd July 2021 was the first realistically available date for our usual "indoor" Big Game at our usual venue, Burley Gate Village Hall.
Some hardier sorts, however, have already undertaken an interwar Big Game - in the person of Tim Gow (and cronies) of the "Megablitz and More" blog - the Siege of Madrid, 1936, in 54mm and outdoors! Check the series of posts starting HERE and concluding HERE, all as contemporaneously illustrated on the arid plains of Civil War Spain (or TG's back patio):
While the precise inter-relationship between the Spanish Civil War and the Very British Civil War remains somewhat obscure, TG's battlefield photographs unwittingly expose a startling fact - the export of "Proley Tanks" from Presteigne to Republican Spain (and the capture of a few by the Spanish Nationalists). It seems that the cause of "International Revolution" must also be the cause of the growing "tank gap" between Comrade Colonel Professor Winters' Communist Front and the tank forces of the BUF.....
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