Comrade Colonel Professor Winters has become increasingly worried by the Government's rapid introduction into service of "Elstree Industries" tanks, apparently now being produced by his sworn enemies within the County (and the Automobile Association) on an industrial scale. Determined neither to lose face nor the Civil War, and following anxious consultations with Comintern, Winters has therefore established a "shadow factory" for new model tank manufacture at a secret location "behind the Black Mountains", based on a "flatpack assembly line" sent to him by secret freighter from Leningrad:
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| If Comrade Colonel Professor Winters had actually believed in Christmas, his secret delivery from Leningrad might have given him that "warm Christmas morning feeling". As a militant Atheist, however.... |
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| ......he was concerned only to establish the number and utility of the tanks contained in "the Leningrad package".... |
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| and the speed with which they could be assembled. With a maximum of only six pre fabricated parts per tank, there was yet hope that the County Communists might catch up and even exceed the "Elstree Industries" output. Winters noted that a variety of tank marques could be made: |
Comrade Colonel Professor Winters' Soviet flat pack factory was assembled in record time, and was officially christened the "Popular Revolutionary Organisation Light Engineering Yard No.1" (or, in Comintern records, "Narodnyy Revolyutsionnyy Organizatsiya Svetlyy Inzheneriya Dvor No.1"). Soon enough, Winters reckoned, his new assembly lines would be churning out "PROLEY" tanks in vast quantities, enough to bring the Hereford VBCW to a swift end in his favour.....
Following manufacture, only field testing of the PROLEY tanks would remain, and Winters was supremely confident of Soviet manufacturing techniques.
Notes
(1). The "PROLEY" tanks are in "approximate 1/48ish -1/50ish scale" and look fine next to 28mm figures, being almost exactly the same size and height as "Elstree Industries" tanks. They were obtained from this Russian Ebay Seller ("kotofeykotovich") and are made of hard plastic, costing about £4.00 each (INCLUSIVE of Postage & Packing from Russia to UK). Not quite as (ridiculously) inexpensive as the "cheep Chinese plastic tanks" from Elstree Industries used in the Modelling Challenge 2019, but of much better material and modelling detail - and you don't have to source an alternative tank turret for any of them!
(2). Unfortunately, it appears that Ebay seller "Kotofeykotovich" has temporarily shut his shop by reason of the Covid crisis, but no doubt he will be back, once things return to normal, for anyone wishing to order. Just as well that Winter's planning staff had the good fortune to have already "laid in" a goodly supply of PROLEYS....Onward to Hereford, Comrades! Death to the Fascist Beasts!
Following manufacture, only field testing of the PROLEY tanks would remain, and Winters was supremely confident of Soviet manufacturing techniques.
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| Field testing would no doubt demonstrate the unique capabilities of Winters new PROLEY Tanks (Mks.1 - V) |
(1). The "PROLEY" tanks are in "approximate 1/48ish -1/50ish scale" and look fine next to 28mm figures, being almost exactly the same size and height as "Elstree Industries" tanks. They were obtained from this Russian Ebay Seller ("kotofeykotovich") and are made of hard plastic, costing about £4.00 each (INCLUSIVE of Postage & Packing from Russia to UK). Not quite as (ridiculously) inexpensive as the "cheep Chinese plastic tanks" from Elstree Industries used in the Modelling Challenge 2019, but of much better material and modelling detail - and you don't have to source an alternative tank turret for any of them!
(2). Unfortunately, it appears that Ebay seller "Kotofeykotovich" has temporarily shut his shop by reason of the Covid crisis, but no doubt he will be back, once things return to normal, for anyone wishing to order. Just as well that Winter's planning staff had the good fortune to have already "laid in" a goodly supply of PROLEYS....Onward to Hereford, Comrades! Death to the Fascist Beasts!
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