AVBCW and 1940 maps and ideas

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

I'm idly thinking about AVBCW around where I was brought up (and not far from where I now live).   I've ordered a (slightly battererd) cheap 1940 1 inch map of part of the area off ebay and will think about other 1920s-40s maps in due course.  There's lots of countryside (still) and in 1940 quite a few defences against invasion were put in place.   So I can use the material both for AVBCW and a hypothetical 1940 invasion.   

I was brought up near an RAF station that by then flew Javelins (then helicopters) but in the late 1930s was new and flew army co-operation Hawker Audaxes then Hectors (before conversion to Lysanders in 1939).  So in AVBCW a mobile column of less than enthusiastic RAF personnel backed a by a random RAF armoured car and biplane air support?   

The Audax was a Hart variant but I've no idea if anyone makes a 1/300 - 1/150 model of a Hart?

Regards

Edward

[nikharwood]

For vintage maps, have a look here:

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html

http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html

No idea on the Hart though 

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi

The only Hawker aircraft I know of in 1/144 is the Hawker Fury by Don Schmenk in the US. It's a resin kit and you can see pictures of it http://kampfgruppe144.blogspot.com.au/2008/04/1144-sopwith-snipe-bristol-bulldog-by.html - 4th & 5th pictures down. You can contact Don at the following site - http://userpages.bright.net/~dschmenk/Welcome.html. He makes other interwar aircraft as well. Note you have to supply and fit your own struts.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Ben Waterhouse]

Hi

The only Hawker aircraft I know of in 1/144 is the Hawker Fury by Don Schmenk in the US. It's a resin kit and you can see pictures of it http://kampfgruppe144.blogspot.com.au/2008/04/1144-sopwith-snipe-bristol-bulldog-by.html - 4th & 5th pictures down. You can contact Don at the following site - http://userpages.bright.net/~dschmenk/Welcome.html. He makes other interwar aircraft as well. Note you have to supply and fit your own struts.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

That's a top set of links, thanks very much.

[Steve J]

You could always go down the 2D route as shown on my Blog below:

http://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.co.uk/

[Ben Waterhouse]

You could always go down the 2D route as shown on my Blog below:

http://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.co.uk/

Cor! There's clever. I like it.

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

My 1940 map has arrived - as expected it's a bit battered (but good value at 75p + p&p).  I was amused to find it doesn't mark the late 1930s RAF station at all :-).  It covers a goodly area and is enough for now.   Obviously a lot of the new roads, bypasses etc have changed things but there's a lot the same.   

Looking at the Defence of Britain database on Google Earth there were a lot of pillboxes, AT ditches, field gun emplacements etc a few miles south and east of where we now live.  Few now remain (although we did find some field positions in the woods over the winter after some tree felling). 

Regards

Edward

[Steve J]

A couple of links to sites that might give you an idea of the defences that were in place in your area in 1940.
http://www.pillboxesuk.co.uk/
http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/sitemappage.htm

[robert]

Steve J - as usual you have supplied some excellent information - thank you very much for the pillbox links - I had no idea these sites existed.

I was also going to direct the enquiry to your blog about 2D planes but you beat me to it

[Steve J]

Thanks for the kind comments Robert . The pillbox links came about by searching for info one lunchtime at work so that I could scratchbuild some for myself.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi

Cor! There's clever. I like it.

Actually if you like the idea of 2d planes, I've got a Hawker Demon for this style at http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,4522.msg40368.html#msg40368

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Ben Waterhouse]

Ta very much