The Little World

It turns out I was reading my history wrong – the Royal Canadian Artillery  in WWll weren’t the ones with the Bren gun carriers – there were airfield defence regiments and detachments for this purpose. I still get to keep the Brens but I just have to make different unit patches.

The really nice thing about this little project is the fact that BGC’s are pretty common as restored military vehicles. I was lucky in looking for BGC’s that might have served in Alberta – there’s one parked in the rain in Edmonton and someone’s taken big clear pictures of it. Thank you, whoever you were. If a BGC was more heavily armoured it would have been tank you…

In any event, the Plastic Soldier models were an absolute pleasure to build. Really nice. As far as military models go…they are better than Airfix. Sorry to be blunt, but the fit of the mouldings and the design decisions were far better. I enjoyed the day. The results are delightful.

The BGC’s are painted in clean form. The disposition of lights and boxes conforms to the picture of the sad example sitting in the Edmonton rain. I feel for that carrier – I’ve been in Edmonton myself…

Now if I could only think up a scenario that would let me buy more Plastic Soldier models…See how it goes? This is what happens with drugs. One nickel bag of Airfix fighter planes starts you off and eventually you are snorting Hasegawa under the stairs. Beware, children.