Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

 Finishing off the Polish Recee company, with option to take these as Catagory A or B troops, by adding another BDRM-2 and 3 T-55s. By 1984, these are well outdated, but the Poles didn't have the cash to do anything else. Top view Boom! Off they go! My Pendraken sale purchases, Cold War Poles. Catagory C Heavy Reconnaisance Company. Main tanks will either be T-34s from my North Korean selection, or the T-55s on order from Pendraken, add another BDRM2 and they become a Cat A or B company. PT-76s, BDRM-2s, and a bunch of Poles who don't want to be there. The whole formation costs less than an Abrahams platoon! And certainly won't last as long! But at least this selection can all swim!

Holiday this year saw the whole Lemmey family off for a trip to York, and a quick visit to the Yorkshire Aircraft Museum at Elvington So, continuing my few and far between series of Museum write ups... Elvinton was a WW2 airbase, either RAF of Free French, but it was a Bomber Command base, and Handley-Paige Halifaxes were based here, so different to the Fighter Command bases visited previously. First thing that greats you upon entry is a 1:1 scale model of a Hurricane (which I always hae a soft-spot for, as my Grandpa flew in them), but this one is done up as a Mk2C night fighter , with four cannons. A really nice touch. Saracen armoured car . 1:1 model Spitfire , because you just have to. Tallboy bomb , without warhead, in it's transportation cradle. A big beast. Talking of Tallboys, this one stands inside the hanger (daughters for scale) alongside a WE. 177 nuclear freefall bomb , training round, but daunting to say the least. WW1 mock up, a vintage rebuild by engineering appr...