A WARGAME FIRST ? CAMPAIGN CHARACTER CREATED & COLOURISED

Comrade Colonel Professor Winters, the "Great Leader" of the Presteigne Soviet, was (for once) not in  command of the Communist "raiding forces" recently engaged along the A438 to the west of Hereford (Spring Big Game 2024). Having suffered a severe defeat at "The Disaster at Dinmore" (Spring Big Game 2023), Winters only narrowly escaped subsequent liquidation, and was wise enough to leave the raiding forces in the hands of a junior commander, Captain Izny Stroganov.

A rare photograph of Winters before the start of the Very British Civil War has recently been auctioned at Bonhams:

Professor Winters in his rooms at Cambridge, 1935. 
During this year, Winters started his famous "Dialetical Debate" with Raj Palme Dutt,
chief theoretician of the CPGB. See HERE

As admirers of  contemporary colourised photographs we are, of course, delighted that the "Bonhams Portrait" has now gone through this process:

Professor Winters 'colourised'.

Along with the rest of us, Professor Winters now waits anxiously for news of Captain Stroganoff's "A438 Encounter" with the enemy:

Comrade Colonel Professor Winters "Field HQ" outside Presteigne.
When will that phone ring ? What will be the news ?

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Note: For those readers who appreciate a firm distinction between reality and fiction (hardly anybody in the Hereford VBCW), it should be noted that Winters' photograph was created by Rob B using an AI programme. For more AI generated images of the VBCW, including some by Rob B, see HERE. AI is clearly a massive boon for the wargame campaigner and RPGr - now it is possible not only to create a campaign character, but also create his or her portrait photograph. Could it be that Winters' "Bonham Portrait" is a wargame first ?