TECHNICALS RACE HOTS UP !

It could very well be that Autumn Big Game 2023 ("Big Trouble in Little Hereford") will come to resemble, not the usual painstakingly authentic historical reconstruction, but a warlike episode of "Wacky Races" - for the Modelling Challenge 2023 entries are now flooding in.

First up, the entry of Mr Benn of the Independent Labour Party (aka Jon), who is clearly determined not to be out-gunned:

The ILP "Technicals" - double Vickers K guns, a Lewis Gun, and what appears to be
Soviet multi barrelled AA machine guns to the rear. Good Golly...

Yes, those multi barrelled MMGs are undoubtedly Soviet in origin.
As they say of the ILP, never knowingly under-gunned...

While Mr Benn must be wondering where to find all the enormous quantities of ammunition necessary for his multiple machine guns, Umpire Roo has avoided another "Fell at the First Certificate" and produced a splendid (and extensively photographed) addition to his "King's Own Colonials" recon section:

We're told that Mickey "Chimpy" Gibbons is at the wheel of this KOC recon Technical, while John "Clown" Macdonald and Aub "Guns" Hodgson operate the 47mm AT/Gun Model 1931 "with deadeye accuracy".... 

Saturday can't come soon enough to see all the "Technicals" in action, and who knows what further entries to the Modelling Challenge 2023 might yet come to light: