Researching Richard Marsh's "Rapid Fire" Aircraft Carrier threw up these shots of a very different type of aerial transportation - scratchbuilt Fallschirmjager DFS 230 gliders landing (in the alternative history timeline) somewhere in Crete in 1941:
Although nominally 20mm or 1/72 in "scale", these gliders actually adopt the same "cartooned philosophy' (see Major General Tremorden Rederring's thoughts) as the "Rapid Fire" ships previously featured (i.e. as the gliders cannot be made absolutely "scale realistic" for table space reasons, "we have to settle for making [them] visually appealing and useful as game elements...") Even better, an ancient Wargames Illustrated magazine provided a simple "How To" illustration for making these very same gliders:
Having lost a considerable number of precious Fallschirmjager at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross (Autumn 2019 Big Game) through the vagaries of the 'Elefun Machine', Reichsmarschall Goering's staff officers are now eagerly exploring local manufacture of similar gliders at various sawmills within Herefordshire:
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| Gliders? The Reichsmarschall approves! |
Note: it used to be that scratchbuilding was the only way of obtaining a Fallschirmjager glider. Nowadays, of course, you could just head over to Sarissa Precision and buy some pre-made kits. But they take up a lot more table space - and somehow it wouldn't be quite so much fun:
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| Sarissa Precision's 1/72 DFS 230 gliders |
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