After Major-General Everard's incredibly early entry to the Modelling Challenge 2024 ("Ladies ! To the Barricades !), it might have been thought that a period of calm and reflection could be expected - but this was to reckon without the intergalactic CEO of Shoddy Enterprises (40K) and all round (cheep!) Chinese plastic and (stout!) British cardboard-guru, LAF Bearwoodman!
Now, give a wargamer/modeller the prospect of 28mm soft curves, bright eyes and glowing flesh tones (the Ladies !) or 28mm collections of damaged urban junk arranged into some kind of disorderly obstacle (the Barricades !), and there was always little doubt that LAF Bearwoodman would start with - a Shoddy Tank !
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| The Shoddy Tank Mk.1. Notwithstanding its appalling tendency to break down and/or blow itself up, the same basic design has seen service from 1938 to the 41st Millennium. |
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| The cardboard guru strikes ! LAF Bearwoodman's initial modifications.... |
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| a close up of the cardboard work. Hatches opened, main gun centred, MG added etc... |
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| initial conversion works done, black undercoating.... |
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| Going for a rusty paint scheme on this one....... |
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| ....rusty and broken down, suitable for "a barricade"... |
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| Rear view. Detailed conversion work (and lots of rivets).... |
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| On second thoughts, change of plan....the Shoddy in British green... |
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| ...and then "burnt out and rusted". A great paint job as ever. |
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| ...but somebody doesn't appreciate it. Remind us - who is that black clad dictator waving his clenched fist, clearly in an early episode of "road rage" ? |
LAF Bearwoodman's full (and lavishly illustrated) build thread is on the Lead Adventure Forum HERE, with the start (at the moment) of a further "junk" barricade and even the hint of a future female personality figure. Appalled at the prospect that LAF Bearwoodman might just produce a competition compliant entry on this occasion, rules lawyers everywhere are simply covering their faces in despair:
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| A typical rules lawer responds to LAF Bearwoodman's potentially competition compliant entry. Happy landings.... |
Nonetheless, LAF Bearwoodman's build thread leaves certain critical questions unanswered. Who was commanding the destroyed Shoddy Mk.1, and what brought it to a burning halt ? Reminding ourselves that Shoddy Tanks should always finish up as burning wrecks, some tentative answers can be ventured, courtesy of our courageous campaign camera crews:
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| "General" Patton, Senior Armoured Adviser to the "Bromyard Armoured Brigade" in the Hereford VBCW, disconsolate at a roadside, wreathed in smoke. Could it be from the remains of his destroyed "Command Shoddy" ? See more about Patton's involvement in the Hereford VBCW HERE. |
And as for the destructive culprits, the finger of outright suspicion is firmly pointed at LAF Bearwoodman's old, historically slightly squashed, foe (and enthusiastic experimental Anti-Tank gunners), the Irish Lilliputian Legion:
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| Begorrah ! The Irish Lilliputian Legion's experimental anti- tank rifle. A clearly fearsome weapon to rank alongside the previously featured American crotch mortar and the by now notorious Brassiere Auto - Gun. |
More blogposts follow with further news of the Modelling Challenge 2024 as and when our fearless investigative reporters have any latest developments....
Note: for the development of the Shoddy Tank in to the 41st Century, together with all of LAF Bearwoodman's "Shoddy" conversions (and other modelling enterprises), enter "Bearwoodman" in the "Search this Blog" box at the top right of this page....
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