Ground Forces Advanced on their Objective...the Battle of Flower Bed Three began at 3:25pm - 2025@33

[bianfuxia]

Short version: this is for armour builders bewildered by all the aeroplane GBs!

 

Dateline: your childhood. Ground Forces advanced on their objective this afternoon. The Battle of Flower Bed Three began at [insert what time you got home from school]. 

 

We're serious modellers but who's to say we can't also reminisce about the days of our childhood when our tanks and little army men would clear the Nazis from Mum's flower bed, push that Zombie Horde back to the corner of the living room, or hold Godzilla at the far end of the patio until the last man? Hold your position, soldier, and don't shoot til you see the whites of his eyes!

 

This is a GB for all your Ground Forces of any era or nation, but with a twist. Build your model to your current standards, but post a few pics in the gallery of your tank or jeep during operations in the garden, flower bed, driveway, the kitchen bench, the dinner table, or wherever you think a few tanks are needed to Hold. That. Position.

 

Nothing in your stash? There are quite a few pretty cheap kits around - buy one and join in!

 

Eligibility:

 

Ground Forces includes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, armoured cars, artillery, support vehicles, troop carriers, foot soldiers, horse cavalry, IFVs, APCs, Humvees, mobile command posts, static command posts, motorbikes...these can be real or sci-fi, fantasy, what-if etc.

 

Amphibious vehicles like Amtrac, DUKW, Buffalo, Schwimmwagen, etc are also ground forces because they can drive a long way on the ground.

 

Ships and boats that can't drive on land are not ground forces, even if they are "giving you fellas a ride".  Same for battleships on the gun line. Yes, the soldier needs that naval gunfire support, but no, the battleship is not Ground Forces.

 

Close air support aircraft, helicopter gunships, troop-carrying planes, assault gliders...all these things can fly and so they are not Ground Forces.

 

Some examples of the Photo Gallery aspect of this GB (I am sure you can get a lot more creative than this, too):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signer-uppers:

1. me

2. @Keeff

3. @John Masters

4. @Hockeyboy76

5. @theplasticsurgeon

6. @psdavidson

7. @Marklo

8. @R T Fishall

9. @desert falcon

10. @Courageous

11. @Tim R-T-C

12. @JeroenS

13. @JOCKNEY

14. @Ralph

15. @2996 Victor

16. @vppelt68

17. @Beardybloke

18. @AdrianMF

19. @danbuoy

20. @sardaukar

21. @Wings unlevel

22. @IanC

23. @Bobby No Mac

24. @Pig of the Week

25.

26. @Armor Novice

27. @RevDWC

28. @flyboy2610

29. @Pedro52

30. @Trevor L

31. @robw_uk

32. @TonyW

33. @diases

34. 

Edited November 2, 2024 by bianfuxia

[Keeff]

Well as this looks fun, count me in! 

 

Keith 😁 

[Enzo the Magnificent]

On 13/11/2023 at 11:25, bianfuxia said:

don't shoot til you see the whites of his eyes!

 

They would have won if they'd kept their eyes closed.  Not a lot of people know that...

 

This proposal looks perfect for Little H   @Hockeyboy76

[John Masters]

Haha!  Yesss!  How about aircraft flying about the ceiling?  I’m in anyhow…

[Hockeyboy76]

Sign me up twice ( one for little h)

[theplasticsurgeon]

Never really did tanks as a kid, but I can still join in the fun.

Ambush position in the long grass.

[bianfuxia]

3 hours ago, theplasticsurgeon said:

Ambush position in the long grass

General, why did you let your flank be exposed to that attack?

 

Mr President, if Dad mowed the lawn more often it never would have happened!

[Enzo the Magnificent]

2 minutes ago, bianfuxia said:

General, why did you let your flank be exposed to that attack?

 

Mr President, if Dad mowed the lawn more often it never would have happened!

 

Okay...  so we've set the tone of this proposal pretty quickly.   

[psdavidson]

The Battle of Pillow Hill was re-enacted regularly in my yoof

I think it deserves to be fought one more time

 

/P 

[Rob G]

Hmm... I was a yoof wif good taste and only builded models of airyplanes. Guess I'm excluded from this'un.

 

(Nassty, nasssty tankses!)

[bianfuxia]

9 hours ago, psdavidson said:

The Battle of Pillow Hill was re-enacted regularly in my yoof

I think it deserves to be fought one more time

 

/P 

Sounds like a fierce battle - welcome aboard. 

[Marklo]

Ok plenty of AFVs in the stash that could be photographed in the wild. I’m in.

[R T Fishall]

Definitely looks like fun, please count me in.

 Bonus points for blowing the model up with firecrackers at the end?

[Enzo the Magnificent]

As a child I had a nice model railway (well...  actually a train set   ) on a baseboard.   I was never allowed to have this set up long term so when not in use it had to be dismantled and stacked against a wall in my bedroom.   My younger brother (aka Favourite Son) liked Subbuteo.  He was allowed to have the Subbuteo pitch laid out permanently in our bedroom.  If I wanted to run some trains, I had to ask his permission, which was rarely granted.   

 

So it would be nice to build an Honest John launcher delivering a bucket of sunshine to a football stadium.  Okay...   I realise it's a war crime, but it would be sooooooo satisfying. 

 

Incidentally....   I built a Matchbox Phantom with the crew sat in the jet with canopies open.  The crew were not wearing helmets...       

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

1 hour ago, Enzo the Magnificent said:

My younger brother (aka Favourite Son) liked Subbuteo.

Had to look this up never heard of it this side of the pond. 

[zebra]

Great idea, ground forces aren’t my thing though so I’ll skip this one. Maybe we need a GB for naval aircraft operating from ironing boards as well.

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

2 hours ago, zebra said:

Great idea, ground forces aren’t my thing though so I’ll skip this one. Maybe we need a GB for naval aircraft operating from ironing boards as well.

I don't think it would be restricted to ground force's. I would think a model of an aircraft posed at a real airport with real planes in the background would be good ? Along the lines of forced perspective. 

[RC Boater Bill]

What if I nosed this one into the beach?    

 

[bianfuxia]

1 hour ago, RC Boater Bill said:

What if I nosed this one into the beach?    

 

Can't see the pic

[Marklo]

9 hours ago, Enzo the Magnificent said:

My younger brother (aka Favourite Son) liked Subbuteo

He isn’t called Kevin by any chance? ( very obscure musical reference btw)

[desert falcon]

Yes please ✋

[Mr T]

On 11/17/2023 at 10:34 PM, Enzo the Magnificent said:

As a child I had a nice model railway (well...  actually a train set   ) on a baseboard.   I was never allowed to have this set up long term so when not in use it had to be dismantled and stacked against a wall in my bedroom.   My younger brother (aka Favourite Son) liked Subbuteo.  He was allowed to have the Subbuteo pitch laid out permanently in our bedroom.  If I wanted to run some trains, I had to ask his permission, which was rarely granted.   

 

So it would be nice to build an Honest John launcher delivering a bucket of sunshine to a football stadium.  Okay...   I realise it's a war crime, but it would be sooooooo satisfying. 

   

I'm pleased to see that you are not bitter about this after all these years. 

My mum once told me she I was younger that I was an accident, and they only ever intended having my brother and she would have liked a daughter (explains why I had dolls for Christmas and had to wear a drees around the house, OK only kidding). It really is a shame that parents aren't given a manual when children are born. 

[bianfuxia]

Resurfacing this so it doesn't get lost in the wake turbulence of all the  aircraft GBs....

[Courageous]

I have more than enough 1/72 AFV's to choose from. Count me in.

 

Stuart

[bianfuxia]

4 hours ago, Courageous said:

I have more than enough 1/72 AFV's to choose from. Count me in.

 

Stuart

Welcome! It's a slow burn this one but I think it'll get across the line eventually!