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Thursday, 3 January 2019

From BenitoM: British Airborne Section (45 points)

Life is returning to normal after the Christmas period, although here in Spain we still one additional celebration to go through: the epiphany day on January 6^th. This has been (still is) the traditional day to exchange presents; but as many other cultural imports from the United States (Halloween or the Black Friday just to mention the latest two), many Spaniards now has shift their allegiances to the 24-25^th December date, changing the Three Wise Kings for the fat bloke in red.

My first Thursday entry is as usual in this edition of the Challenge, related to the British Airborne project. Having completed the commanders (“Big Men” in the Toofatlardies parlance) and many supports, today I bring my first section into play.

The British Airborne Platoon composition for Chain of Command is made of an HQ section and three rifle sections. Each rifle section has a rifle team (5 men with Lee Enfields and 1 with a Sten MG) and LMG team (Bren gun with three crew) led by a Sergeant (Superior Junior Leader).

This is the rifle team…

… and this is the LMG team

The rifle team is from the Warlord British Airborne plastics box in 28mm. The quality of the sculpting is good, especially the heads and the multi-pose and gear options allow for a wide variety of poses and equipment. The number of parts is significantly smaller than in the first plastic boxes issued by Warlord (for example, the British infantry box) and the sculpting is much better too.

With regards to the LMG team, the two prone models are from Wargames Foundry and the knee-firing model is another Warlord plastic. The foundry models are truly nice. These are early-design sculpts by the famous Perry Brothers; although somewhat smaller than the Warlords, as I suspected once painted and based, the differences in size are hardly noticeable on a wargaming table.

Therefore I score an additional 45 points with this entry in the Challenge (9 models x 5 points each).

Gorgeous figures with a wonderful take on the distinctive para camo! Lovely clean painting on some very characterful sculpts, I'm glad to hear that warlord are reducing the parts in their bolt action boxes as I found them somewhat overwhelming!

45 points it is to you Benito, splendid work!

All the best Iain