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A place for things 20th Century, real and imagined..

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

7th Armoured division tank regiment and armoured cars 1944.

HQ
11th hussars

7th Armoured division RHA , and RE bulldozer 1944.

7th Armoured Royal Horse Artilley regiment and and the rather delightful engineers' bulldozer

HAT OP shermans and Britannia sextons
The rather delightful Raventhorpe armoured bulldozer

the very last of the Soviets!!! On to Berlin!!!!

A bit of a milestone the completion of the soviet 20mm project and the completion of   a project that has involved four   major forces  for the same person .All these are mostly  Britannia and I again  dedidcate these to the memory of Dave Howitt, who I came to know well over the 31/3 years I have have been  doing these projects.
Anyway here is  the  Infantry Brigade  Anti tank battalion. Two  57mm Anti-tank guns and tows and 5 Anti tank rifle teams.

7th Armoured division motor batt'n 1944.

Some old stuff., not all the pics  that I took as some went down the plughole in the big Imageshack hack...but not blogged before ..so now for your benefit

HQ
HQ aboard their Britannia Scout car
Rifle company
Rifle company transport
AT platoon

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Britannia Armed Trawler. 20mm

Found this pic , the only one that survived that weird meltdown at imageshack some time ago..

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Soviet Rifle Brigade , in memory of Dave Howitt

The last of the infantry two battalions and an attached 120mm mortar..all Britannia



support company

HQ

SMG and 2 rifle companies

HQ 3rd Battalion

support 3rd Battalion

SMG company 3rd battalion
Rifle company 3rd battalion

Rifle company 3rd Battalion


attached 120mm mortar

Monday, 24 January 2011

Dave Howitt

as many who view this blog  will know I have a great fondness for the models and  figures produced by Dave Howitt  of Britannia. Sadly I read in the Guild forum   the following .
Dave's daughter wrote
"Just to pass on the news that my Dad Dave Howitt passed away on saturday morning. The heart attack had caused too much damage to the heart and all though the drs tried everything in the end it was too much."
I was only ordering and chatting via email with him just before Christmas....