Steve's Walmington-on-Sea church - interior

Steve's 'Walmington-on-Sea' church - windows

Steve has now complete his church - including guttering and glazing - and had sent me more photos.

As well as a close up of the drainpipe, this shot offers a tantalising glimpse of the interior.  More coming soon!

Steve's 'Walmington-on-Sea' church - exterior

Inspired by the use of his Dad's Army figures for a few games recently, Steve is currently hard at work building a church in 28mm scale.  Here are some photos of the work in progress - interior pics will follow soon.

The Verger (left) and Vicar look pleased with their new workplace.

The dangers of smoking... part 2

Steve has sent me some photos he took of the recent game.  Unlike mine, these were taken with a proper camera...

A fine view of the crashed He111

Mainwairing, Wilson and Godfrey.

The German crew making good their escape - note the guy at the back with a dismounted MG.

I haven't measured them, but I've no doubt that the bullet holes in the Heinkel scale to .303....

The dangers of smoking...

A few weeks ago we treated Steve's 'Dad's Army' figures to another outing, again using Jim Wallman's 'Dialogue Game' framework.
The scenario this time was that a Luftwaffe bomber had crashed and the Platoon had been sent to search for the crew.  The platoon was split into 3 sections and wile Capt. Mainwairing oversaw the inspection of the aircraft, Jones searched the village and Sponge the local farms.

Steve's rather impressive 'crashed' 1/48th scale He111, with Mainwairing, Wilson and Pike in attendance.  The photos aren't great as I forgot my camera and had to resort to the Blackberry.

Walker tries to steal one of the geese - and has his cigarette stolen by the goose instead!

Sponge's section arrested an Italian POW working as a farm labourer.  He was clearly up to no good...

Mainwairing is surrounded by angry geese while Sgt. Wilson tries to find a way into the 'plane and Pike offers to 'fill it full of lead'.  Stupid boy.

A mystery ambulance arrives - under the control of a nasty Nazi!  But he is soon overpowered.

Two of the Luftwaffe's finest on the run - just before they surrendered.

The finale came just after the last Germans surrendered when the goose which had stolen Walker's (lit!) cigarette strayed a little too close to a pool of petrol under the Heinkel...

We're all doomed!

Wednesday night saw us play another Dialogue Game using Steve's Dad's Army figures.  The cast was as follows:
Captain Mainwaring (short, bespectacled, bossy) - Dave
Sgt. Wilson (softly spoken nice chap) - John
L. Cpl Jones (easily confused and prone to panic) - Martin
Pvt. Walker (dodgy geezer, frequently disappears for a smoke) - Gunter
Pvt. Pike (stupid boy) - Steve
Pvt. Fraser (cantankerous Scotsman) - your humble correspondent....

The action opened with the platoon arriving in a small hamlet to investigate a report of an unexploded bomb.  A great deal of milling around ensued with Walker cadging cigarettes and Fraser disappearing to make a telephone call.  Meanwhile Pike has spotted a hole on the roof of one of the houses but everyone is ignoring him..

ARP Warden Hodges then appeared grumbling about it being "an ARP matter".  While the argument raged, Jones accidentally discharged his rifle and shot Hodges's helmet off!  Eventually Jones bribed Hodges with some sausages and he buggered off. 

While part of the platoon was searching the timbered house a large dog appeared and ran at Walker.  Walker then ran off and tripped over a metal object which turned out to be a bomb!  As Mainwaring tried to restore order, Wilson went to ring GHQ and Jones flung himself on the bomb which promptly began ticking...  As the episode ends, cut to a close up of Fraser - "we're all doomed...."