Prisoner

This is not exactly (well anything like) what I had intended on posting up this week....

Over the Easter long weekend The Guild hosted a speed build with the theme being "Prisoner". There were basically no limitations but it had to have at least 2 figures in it.

I looked through all my stuff, and the only "Prisoner" related stuff I could come up with came from this Revell soft plastic infantry box:



Three figures really suited what I had in mind - which was a prisoner (obviously) being lead by an armed soldier -

- to an officer like figure for questioning

(PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE EXCELLENT PLASTIC SOLDIER REVIEW WEBSITE)

Due to the nature of the German figures I decided to title my entry as "Person of Interest" - somewhere in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

So without further stalling - this is how it turned out:























That's all for now - hope you all had a great Easter break

Have fun...

Richard

Last Flight of the Harrier

Now I know this doesn’t fit in with my standard Cold War timeframe – but this news is just to sad for any long term Harrier Jump Jet lover to not comment on.

I was at high school in the 1980s and interested in all things military, so was probably heavily influenced by the success of the Harriers involved in the Falklands War. About this time we had a teacher who loved planes and showed us instructional movies on the Harrier that I found simply fascinating. I one point I was already to join the Royal Australian Navy because we were going to buy the HMS Invincible and I want to fly Sea Harriers!

Well, yesterday (my time) was the last flight of the Harrier in service with the RAF and Royal Navy. I don’t live in the UK so am a little distant from the whole argument as to why this is happening – years before the Joint Strike Fighter comes into service – and when I read comments like the following from the ABC website you have to wonder:
“Despite objections from the army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (RAF), the decommissioning of the last 16 jets went ahead anyway.
The British government claims the plane's retirement is not just about cost cutting, but many believe there is no sound military reason for their mothballing.”
So – in memory of a revolutionary and awesome plane – here’s a few more Harrier clips:








In Oz we’ve just decommissioned our F-111s so it sad all round

So have fun

Richard

Slightly out of my timeframe...

Even though this is pretty modern - like happening right now - the interesting Cold War like East vs West connotations of this youtube clip on the Russian built Club-K Container Missile System were to good not to post here.

Have a look and see for yourself what I mean:



Whenever I stumble over something like this, I'll post it up on the blog as part of my overall goal of keeping it for reference material as well as wargaming pictures...

Have fun

Richard