Boxer IFV(W)

 Another purchase from Spectre at Salute was their 28mm model of the Boxer IFV(W).

It is certainly an imposing bit of kit.

"Only The End of the World Again - Again - Again" - GD Ajax IFV

Disaster Area is a plutonium rock band generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but also the loudest noise of any kind at all.

So if they had an Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle, it would have to be a General Dynamics Ajax.

Spectre released a 28mm (1/50) scale model at Salute 2026.

It is a 3D printed kit

Some of the supports have not been removed, but nothing a few moments with a scalpel will not fix.

It is rather imposing

Size comparison with an Empress 1/50 scale Warrior IFV.

Except the Warrior carries an infantry squad and the Ajax replaces the CVRT Scimitar.

I should have compared it with that and a Spartan (which is being replaced with the Ares variant).

References:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74xv4yp4v9o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgmy14n0l0o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9y0l7j1nwo

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/01/25/uk-defense-grapples-with-ajax-troubles-and-typhoon-questions/4218078

Scarlett and Browne, a very British Post-Apocalypse

 Jonathan Stroud (also the author of Lockwood and Co - made into a single season on Netflix) has just completed a British Post-Apocalypse trilogy.

After an undefined Great Cataclysm, Britain is divided into seven Kingdoms. Most of the people live in the highly regulated Surviving Towns, under the watchful eye of the Faith Houses who ensure orthodoxy, both behavoral and genetic.


The map of Britain is both familiar and different. Between the Surviving Towns are the wilds, infested with a whole range of nasty and deadly fauna, including The Tainted (think Rage Infected).

Scarlett McCain is a young robber, who specialises in robbing banks, and occasionally Faith Houses. She is deadly accurate with a revolver and has no hesitation in using it.

Her life changes after she finds a crashed bus with a single survivor, a teenaged boy.

The figure is from the Gunfighters II by Great Escape Games with a Stargrave head.

I still have to find a suitable figure for Albert Browne. I am hoping the Wargames Atlantic Male Survivors set will provide something suitable.

A Faith House Operative (book two).

The body is from the Great Escape Games' Dead Man's Hand Gunfighters set, the arms are from the Frostgrave Wizards set and the head is from the Stargrave Crew set.

The bowler hat seems to be the official headgear, occasionally colour coded for your convenience.

Two Town militia, in their official bowler hats and (when painted) tweed jackets. 

More Dead Man's Hand Gunfighters.

Bones

 

Pig Tickling

 In William's travels, he had seen some peculiar things, but the "sport" of Pig Tickling was one of the oddest.

Steam powered mechanical pig.

Somewhere I have the two stokers that keep the pig running.

Umpire on Unicycle

I have the rules somewhere as well.

Debris of War Command Tent

At SELWG I bought a Command Tent from Debris of War. It is on a Products For Wargamers small terrain base.

After chamfering the edges of the base, the tent was held in place while holes were drilled in from the bottom through the base into the tent. These holes were then used to pin the tent to the base, the whole lot being glued together with superglue. Woodland Scenics fine cinder ballast was applied with PVA glue on the ground surface.

The underside of the base and the top surface were undercoated with Halfords Grey primer. The top was painted with Colour Forge Trench Brown. The ground surface was then given a coat of Humbrol Dark Earth 29.

The pegs were painted with Army Painter Skeleton Bone, then dry brushed with Citadel Tyrant Bone.

The ties were painted with Citadel Karak Stone. The whole thing was washed with Citadel Agrax Earthshade.

It is going to be used as a command tent for A War Transformed, however it is suitably generic and can be used in a number of periods.

Empress SWB Land Rover

 This is a test dry run for an Empress Short Wheel Base Land Rover with a pintle mounted mounted GPMG for use in Twilight 2000.

There are some moulding defects on the front grill. I will cover this with some camouflage netting and possibly some jerry cans.

That is not a wheel clamp, I just have not removed the tag from the wheel.

The gunner is from the BAOR32 Anti Aircraft Unit.

The base of the gunner will be trimmed and a plastic card insert created with the pintle mount attached.

This is going to be loaded up as a recce or security vehicle to provide protection for an anti-tank LWB Land Rover with the BAT recoilless Rifle.

Great War British - Work In Progress

 Some Work In progress shots of the Great War Miniatures British.

The base is a Products for Wargamers eight slot sabot base.

Crooked Dice "Cunning Man" for A War Transformed

 One of the options to command His Majesty's forces in A War Transformed is The Cunning Man.

Who is the person that would spring to mind?

Crooked Dice have pack of Heroes (Heroes 9) with a suitable figure for a war weary Cunning Man.

The figure is supplied with a tab for a slotta base, so this was cut off and filed flat. A hole was drilled in one boot and the figure was pinned to a Renedra 25mm base.

Base coated with Citadel Chaos black.

The trousers were painted with Citadel Steel Legion Drab.

The jacket and spats were painted with Army Painter Leather Brown. The boots themselves were painted with Citadel Dryad Bark.

The waistcoat was Citadel Death Korp Drab and the scarf Citadel Mephiston Red.

The jacket, trousers and spats were highlighted with their respective colours lightened with Army Painter Stone Golem.

Army Painter Stone Golem was used for the buttons on the spats, waistcoat and the photonic spanner.

The business end of the spanner had Citadel Warpstone Glow applied.

The hair was also Army Painter Stone Golem.

The belt and cross belt was Citadel Mournfang Brown.

The brown bits had Citadel Agrax Earthshade applied. The spanner and the hair had a Citadel Nuln Oil was added. The mouth had to be cleared of the wash.

Citadel Reikland Fleshshade wasapplied to the skin (base coated with Citadel Bugman's Glow and highlighted with Citadel Kislev Flesh).

Here is the Cunning Man and two infantry.

Now this is not the last Cunning Man to grace this army, as there is another figure in the pack that might (re)visit The Great War (monocle or not).

Also, though they may not have received the vote, there is no reason the Cunning Man post cannot be filled by a woman with a family history of service in the armed services. That might lead to an interesting selection for a witch figure as well.

Great War Miniatures British officer.

 The second Great War Miniatures figure for A War Transformed is an officer armed with a revolver.

This is from the same Command and Support pack as the Lewis Gun Assistant.

The figure was undercoated with Citadel Chaos Black spray.
It was then base painted with Army Painter Leather brown spray.
I then gave it another coat of Army Painter Leather brown by brush to try to tone down the shine.
The covered helmet is Citadel DeathForest Green.

The water bottle are Citadel Death Korp Drab.
The puttees and mask  are Citadel Steel Legion Drab.

Gloves, pouches, holster and all the "webbing" is Citadel Mournfang Brown

Hose and respirator pack are Citadel Rakarth Flesh.
Metalwork is Vallejo Black Grey.
The Leather Brown was tidied up and then highlighted with a mix of Leather brown and Army Painter Stone Golem. Some darker shading was added to the edges of the jacket and under the arms.

The mask lenses were painted Humbrol matt white, then Citadel Aethermatic Blue was applied.

It still needs to be washed with Citadel Agrax Earthshade and Citadel Camoshade, though I might change the shading wash for the jacket.

Here is the officer and an unpainted Witch.

She was originally built as a Shadow and Bone style Squaller using components from the Frostgrave Soldiers 2 and Wizards 2 sprues, hence the windswept hair.