Yet another post of short links, news, random bits, and oddments that wouldn’t warrant a full post.
Laser-cut MDF for early motor vehicles? They look pretty good, actually, and they’re 1/3 the price of resin & pewter vehicles. I might have to make an order to Warbases sometime to expand my pulp/RCW/WW1 vehicle fleet some more!
Via the always-excellent Airminded (who describe it pithily as “the fine print”), this great Australian recruiting poster from the Imperial War Museums online archive.
All Eligible Men…© IWM (Art.IWM PST 12220)
The Battle of Mons: The Official German Account From the blurb: This book is a translation of the German official history of the Battle of Mons, which took place between the German and British armies in August 1914. It covers the lead up to the battle, details of the fighting that took place, and the immediate follow-up from a German perspective. Early WW1 isn’t my particular area of interest, but well translated sources from the German side of World War One are rare enough to make this especially interesting regardless!
Laser-cut MDF vehicles? Who woulda thunk it? They look brilliant. I’m holding my breath for some 1930s / pulp era models.
Later model vehicles would be nice, but there’s actually a real shortage of WW1-era early motor vehicles out there, especially trucks, so the existing MDF vehicles definitely fill a void. I’ll be chucking some money toward them sometime in the next few months, I strongly suspect. — Brian