15mm VBCW

Boys A/T rifle with a head swop

 Well I've started some 15mm Peter Pig figures for VBCW. I've been thinking about doing some bigger battles, 28mm doesn't look right when 10 figures are trying to be a company so 15mm it is.
I'm going to use the AK47 rules as a start point and re-write them as I see fit. I've done one of the political flow charts so far.

Gun crew for the 2lbs

Lewis gunner

 Peter Pig do a great range of figures and separate heads. I'm using pack  70. WW1/2 French Alpine troop Berets (big floppy berets)  on mix of figures to make up my first unit of Anglican League.

2lbs with crew with a head swop

The 2lbs anti-tank gun has the gunner molded on so I just cut off his head and added a new one. Iwant to do this with a Warlord 28mm gun, but that will have to wait.

Some New Work

Warlord Patizan

 Having done a lot of conversion work on Empress figures I thought I'd do some on Warlord figures. I've also used some Warlord heads on Brigade Games and Musketeer figures.

After having the work done

 As you can see from this picture I changed the rifle and gave the figure a British helmet.

Painted

 I'm going to do the other figure with an ammo box instead of the stick grenade.

Brigade Games figure with Warlord Head

 I wanted to add an Officer and LMG to the BUF Auxiliary I've already done, so used Warlord Tam heads on these 3 figures.

Musketeer with Warlord Head

Musketeer with Warlord Head

Painted Figure

Painted Figure

Painted Figure

Next up will be some more Warlord Partisan conversions.

Blasts From the Past

An early table. Not much cover.

 As I seem to have about 1000 VBCW photo's i thought I'd start to put some on the blog. These are from some of the first games I played at my old house.


BUF armoured skip.

 We started with the idea of mixing Empress and Muskeeter. Most of mine where Empress with head and weapon swops.

The Bishop of Bath and Wells.

 The Bishop is nicked named 'Trigger' because I slipped when doing the conversion and cut off the end of the first finger of the right hand on the figure.

A converted Empress figure. Love this figure leather jacket and a Tommy Gun what more do you need? 

These are Muskeeter with Woodbine heads.

More Empress with a black Cat post box to make it look more like England.

 So there you go a look at some early VBCW action.

2 from Muskeeter, the building is from Brigade Games. Their site is well worth a look.
http://www.brigadegames.com/

Sorry It's Been a While

Small gate

 Sorry its been so long since I posted anything. I got sidetracked on to the Russian Civil War. If people are intrested then I'll post some photo's here.

5 Bar gate, old wall section and tree

 We now have a VBCW website http://vbcf.freeforums.org/index.php this was setup by Ook and is doing very well. Please drop in for a look round.

5 Bare gate GW hedge

These gates where made by http://www.warbases.co.uk/ at the same time as the stiles. They are stuck to tongue depressers I got from ebay.
The next big thing will be the 2 day vbcw game at Gripping Beast at the end of October. 15+ players on Saturday! The background fluff for the players ran to 5000 words in the end. The political manoeuvreing has started. I can't say to much as most of the players follow the blog.

Boy Soldiers and Other Stuff

1 of the finished boy soldiers

 Well I finished the boy soldiers and have added some  Musketeer Black and Tans to make up the unit. All of these have been painted up as BUF Auxiliaries.

2 more boy soldiers

Stealth mortar team

 These are my SFF steath mortar team. The first 3 figures are 2 labours and a door-to-door salesmen.

With the mortar

 These are the 3 figures with the mortar. The idea is to put the first 3 figures on the table at the start of the game along with some other civvies.

Eric with the ammo

 Then swop them for the mortar team when I need the extra fire power. If I can I'll swop them 1 figure at a time during the game. All 4 figures are from Artizan, the mortar is from Empress.

Musketeer Figures now BUF

 3 more of the Black and Tans.

Converted figure, now with sniper rifle

 This 1 had a shotgun which I changed for a sniper rifle.

Sargeant and 2 more riflemen

Boy Soldiers Pt2

So here are the first 3 painted up along with 3 Musketeer figures. I've painted them as BUF Auxiliary based on Pete's illustration in the Somerset book.

Boy Soldiers

Here are the first 3 Chinese figures converted to be VBCW boy soldiers. They are along side 2 Musketeer figures so you can see the size diffrence. I used Woodbine (Gripping Beast) heads as they are smaller than Empress Minitures ones. These where the 3 easiest figures to convert, the rest will take more work.