BEARWOODMAN'S BARRICADE - AND MORE !

As preparations intensify for the forthcoming Big Game ("Return to Little Hereford"), LAF Bearwoodman has laid down the gauntlet in the Modelling Challenge 2024 (Ladies! To the Barricades!). Not content with just one strike, our intergalactic plastic fiend has settled down to some proper (fully illustrated) barricade modelling:

Rumour has it that LAF Bearwoodman has only one VBCW figure. If true, almost as
remarkable as starting a barricade model from this piece of plastic...

Infinitely cunning cardboard modelling, plus some resin pieces, brought together with 
wooden offcuts (love the upturned bath)

painted and completed......

and the reverse, with some nifty VBCW signage...

close up......

He's back! "The Leader" never could resist a photo-opportunity...

and some discreet graffiti left by LAF Bearwoodman, no doubt
in memory of the Modelling Challenge 2023....

But there's more! This years Modelling Challenge is titled "Ladies! To the Barricades!", and Bearwoodman has produced a chunky curvaceous lovely lady in the substantial shape of Miss Gertrude Tunns ("the Weobley Valkyrie"):

Introducing Miss Gertrude Tunns.......

...with her Boyes AT Rifle.

Bearwoodman's backstory for Miss Tunns:

"A powerfully-voiced soprano noted across the County for her dominating presence (on and off stage) she was progressing steadily up the rankings of Herefordshire opera singers when war rudely interrupted her rise to international fame and fortune. Deeming her art above the grubby business of politics, she initially avoided taking a side in what would become the VBCW as constitutional crisis led seemingly inexorably to armed conflict. She was, however, unable to avoid getting entangled in the growing conflagration when her much anticipated performance of Wagner's Gotterdammerung at Weobley Village Hall was threatened by the approach of a marauding mechanised column. According to her agent, while at first her singing was able to drown out the desperate shouts and crackle of gunfire outside, mid-way through Act II a tank shell passed through the wall and shattered the ceiling mounted spotlight that was illuminating her. Incensed at the interruption, but without stopping singing and in full costume, she strode off stage, out the side door reserved for members of the cast and straight to the barricades, pausing only to relieve a gaping militiaman of his anti-tank rifle. There, firing the weapon from her shoulder, she emptied its magazine in to the impertinent tank while her voice soared to a shattering crescendo. Her intervention turned the tide of the action and the remaining attackers retreated, dazed and deafened, back down Gadbridge Road...."

And thus Miss Tunns strode into Hereford VBCW history (and folklore!). 

Note: full details of Bearwoodman's barricade build and more photos of Miss Tunns can be found HERE. Well worth a read!