The Loose Association of Wargamers

Many years ago, I played cricket with a guy called Mike who'd been an erk in his NS days and had been out in Malaya. One day, a senior NCO asked for one volunteer, and told the rest of the group they would be moving the station's piano for a party in the officers' mess that night. Despite being aware of the warning never to volunteer for anything, he reckoned "anything" would be better than moving a piano so he volunteered. He was introduced to a "wizard prang" type who sat him in the back seat of a training aircraft and advised him that at some future point, he (the pilot) would ask Mike to hit the big red button just above his left shoulder. They took off and flew over jungle for some time, before the pilot said "OK, now!" Mike hit the big red button and, whilst doing to, happened to glance behind. To his astonishment, the sky was full of Lincolns and Stirlings, and he could see the trail of the signal rockets he had just launched. He had just given the order for the one and only RAF bombing mission over the Malay jungle, which turned out to be a major mistake in terms of friendlies killed.injured etc and was never done again (a fact that Templar later imparted to the CIA when they came to see him in the early stages of the Vietnam War and was one of the many pieces of advice he gave them which they chose to completely ignore).

We seem to have wandered a wee bit off-topic here, don't we......

At the moment my worktable looks to have been the victim of a Bomber Command strike. I'm sorting out an old 'bits and pieces' box, mostly plastic models and scenery. Broken vehicles, walls, dismembered bodies and debris everywhere.

A few years ago I discovered my old bits box. All sorts of stuff, bombs, missiles and drop tanks in a dozen scales and headless bodies with a length of balsa with heads from head swaps. It was all a bit bizarre.

Just finished off some additional Winter vehicles for my Volksgrenadiers. And a UNIC halftrack for Normandy snuck in too.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:20 pm And a UNIC halftrack for Normandy snuck in too.

Is that the one at the back that looks like it made the mistake of parallel parking between two Tigers?

Them's rather nice.

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BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:15 am To his astonishment, the sky was full of Lincolns and Stirlings....

We seem to have wandered a wee bit off-topic here, don't we......

Surely Stirlings were out of active service by then, even with transport command?

Yes, they were - my mistake.

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:12 pm

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:20 pm And a UNIC halftrack for Normandy snuck in too.

Is that the one at the back that looks like it made the mistake of parallel parking between two Tigers?

That's the one I rather like it for it's extreme ugliness.

Isn't that the new Honda Civic?