Right, only just discernible, but better than a void, so I think I’ll run with this. Easy enough to install, the rear doesn’t have to be especially pretty. I don’t think I’ll start faffing around with a light.
So, a result - thanks John for the prompt - and that’s it I think.
Excellent figure conversion work Brian - they all look exactly like they are doing what they are supposed to be doing. Superb Land Rover and all the little details really add up to a busy (if not apparently so) scene. I read with interest your description of the ins and outs of clerk life - armies everywhere must be the same when you get down to it. What seems simple is actually a series of complex steps, all to ensure that chaos does not ensue. My own military career held many similar instances, although I was mechanized infantry - I never even saw a typewriter! Great write up and an outstanding model scene. The story seems mundane but is interesting. You succeeded. Excellent work.
Thanks Matthew - glad I hit the right note!
It was a touch more involved a project than I first thought, but I’m glad I did it; it’s all a bit strange, but when I tackle something like this from memory, it always seems to prompt even more memories and therefore details. For instance, only at the last moment did I recall the exercise security passes (the pink and red labels affixed to the figures), and of course, one couldn’t get anywhere near the HQ without one.
Thanks again for the support.
Very good indeed👍
77would have had me at Hameln with 28AER
Thanks Ivan!
So you were swimming around on the Weser in M2s?
I was rig trained ( dvr & crewman)but was with HQ MT section and then Training Wing👍
Roger that; I was always tempted to get the Accurate Armour kit but it was pretty expensive, and an awful lot of resin, which nearly always causes me grief.
Perfect add in mate, thats all it needed. 
Great little addition
Great job on the scene. I would enjoy the diorama on it’s own merit, but your story really enhances the effect. I loved the story and your dry British wit “do keep up, LOL! I bet they were surprised once you took over and inficted some actual military flavor to the clerks. Thanks for sharing all of this.
Thank you very much; I’m glad it all made sense.
As for my adventures as a Chief Clerk, that didn’t happen at a Formation HQ - ie a Brigade - until around 10 years later, but by then I’d developed my own clerical doctrine as it were. They were all young lads, and just needed a bit of grip. They didn’t bank on the Wednesday afternoon (traditionally in the British Army a sports afternoon) route marches in full kit I must admit(!)
Brian thanks heaps for sharing this. I very much appreciated the warmth and human focus of this work.
This is an excellent reminder that most of the time in uniform is spent on the mundane. ‘Pressing go on a bang stick’ or the exciting charge at a gun pit (as represented in a lot of modelling works) are such a small portion of military service. The day to day admin, loading vehicles, filling out bumf, eating, cleaning, waiting etc…, are what most of life in uniform is spent doing. Your work here demonstrates that very nicely.
I hope you have capacity to do more in a similar vein. They are very warmly received as you can see by the views and comments. Thanks again!
Well, thank you very much Sam; I must admit I’m a bit surprised at how this has been received, but of course, all very welcome.
I must just say that driving and loading/unloading a Land Rover was positively exciting compared to this:
Assuming you haven’t seen it of course.
Thanks for the interest.
I love the back story on this. I wish more dudes would do similar dios related to what they did during their service.
Belatedly, somewhat akin to my last panic over affixing security passes - I realised that something was missing - after my boxing-in of the entrance, and that was a security grill. So, even though it will hardly be seen, it needs doing I feel, if only to emphasise that the HQ was a bit of a mini-fortress with bars – the security variety (although there was an actual bar called the “Mushroom Club” within the complex) ever present:
I set to with some plastic rod and ended up with this:
I may have spaced the bars a little too close together, but it will have to do; it was hard enough to get them, more or less, parallel to one another.
Oh Brian you disappoint, when I saw the picture I thought you were going to do the rotating man trap 
None the less this has been an interesting adventure into your memories of ‘mundane’ military life. Well done.
Thanks Luciano, a turnstile would be beyond my patience I think, but grills were everywhere, particularly on the entrances/exits, so even the sort of “service” entrance was well protected.
‘Should have it wrapped this evening then I can relax.
