Tag: Plastic Soldier

• BGC – Part 2 – The RCA Are Having None Of it

  

  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…

  Dick Stein

  May 7, 2018

  1:72 scale, Military models, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  bren gun carrier, Plastic Soldier, RCAF Wet Dog

• BGC – Part 1 – And Now Something For The Squaddies

  

  Or to be more particular – for the Royal Canadian Artillery. My research into airfield defence finally paid off when I discovered that there was a standard way on the prairies to provide cover for training bases – or rather there were two standard ways: Either do nothing at all or call in a semi-autonomous…

  Dick Stein

  May 6, 2018

  1:72 scale, Military models, Scale Models

  airfield defence, bren gun carrier, Plastic Soldier