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I do like the doss bags!
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Just to clarify Frank, are they all from Newlands? God, they would have saved me a ton of work on my JOC Maastricht dio, and I’m tempted to add the open doss bag in this one, as though it’s been left outside to air, which did happen, though you had to be careful, a) if it rained and you were so busy you forgot, or b) some bastard would nick it.
All good stuff for the Brit modeller.
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Sorry Frank, I’m not looking hard enough, I should have enlarged the pics then I would have realised, whoever Diaccs are - and I’m about to go digging to find out(!)
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Glad you looked again 
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Thanks for posting this Frank- they do very nice stuff!
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Just been on the site and made an order; his stuff could change my dios (and even prompt new ones come to that!) I think or at least cut down on the work - always a good thing - no more wrestling with '58 pat webbing from Magic Sculp!
I di hope others take note of his stuff - a lot of Brit emphasis, but I mean, a manufacturer who bothers to make '44 pat water bottles?
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A Lot of what he has done is by request, if it’s able to be supplied in real life to copy or scanned then he can print.
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A quick update as the figures are due to get a coat of primer:
Additionally, a combat smock, now matted down, the respective figures, the boxes of typed-up stencils (the white objects), the 2 x sets of NBC suits, respirator case and steel helmets, a sub-machine gun, and a battle map.
I’ve only hinted at the map symbols, but for those interested, the colours indicate as follows:
Red - enemy forces (although the Soviet/WP forces were always referred to as “Orange Forces”, a diplomatic nicety I’m sure).
Blue - own forces.
Green - Engineer activity or obstacles.
Yellow - areas of contamination, either chemical or nuclear. We always suffered (notional) chemical attacks throughout the exercise; towards the end, nuclear, both outgoing and incoming. The outgoing ones (think 8" shells or Honest John rockets) of course, had to come from SACEUR’s authorisation. As a Div, we had no nuclear assets, that was the responsibility of Corps. On this exercise that must have been 1st German Corps or possibly HQ Landjut (Land Forces Jutland) - I can’t quite remember(!)
It was always quite chilling to hear the many briefings over the radio, culminating in something like, “Gentlemen, SACEUR has authorised nuclear release”. It chills me even now.
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Smell that from here,
it’s missing the repair patches from the smokers 
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And the stains lol …
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I looked at their site and they do offer some nice additions
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Yeah, I mean that’s a hell of a coincidence that for this project I’m labouring over making the early type of respirator case (described somewhere above) and yet Matey Boy is producing it. Spooky!
But I’ll certainly be getting some more of his stuff; with him and Newlands operating, these are looking like halcyon days for Brit modellers; they’re certainly filling the gap since say, Accurate Armour packed it in (I do know that Newlands have some of the AA stuff - thank heavens)
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Uurgh! Don’t there…
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Right, nearly there Folks (“and about bloody time” – you’d all be perfectly right in saying.
So, just prior to instalment we have all items ready to go. From top left, moving clockwise we have:
General Staff Officer Grade 3 (a Captain)
2 x boxes of stencils (for the duplicator) in other words the op order typed up by yours truly
SMG (my personal weapon)
Battle Map
Paperwork!
Moi
2 x berets
Combat smock
My set of NBC suit, respirator and steel helmet
The GSO 3’s set of NBC suit, respirator and helmet
Only one item missing and that’s my mug of tea, which is still drying; I’m undecided as to providing the officer with a beverage as I can’t seem to find a1/35 cup of tea. I’ll keep looking(!)
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Stop Press: I discovered that Tamiya add a couple of mugs to their British Infantry set (which I’d recently acquired for a base figure during my US M48A2 project); so, the Captain will not go thirsty as he’ll have one of the mugs organised by the Chief Clerk prior to every exercise. He’d brow beat all the staff officers into coughing up some cash so that we could provision with tea and coffee for the duration of the exercise. He also bought some plastic mugs from the NAAFI (soldiers’ canteen and services shop) as they’d last a little bit longer than the china ones we would still take, for use by those a bit further up out of the primeval swamp.
I had to drill out the Tamiya mug, which defeated me really but I can always show it as full:
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Nice
what make is the SMG?
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Also known as the Sterling - the name of the manufacturer - though never referred to as such by us. It was simply known as the “SMG”. In service with the British Army from 1953 or so Wikipedia would have you believe. Some accounts say that prototypes were taken into Arnhem in 1944. In Suez in 1956 it would appear that most soldiers who needed to carry a sub-machine gun, still had the Sten, despite the above reported date of introduction.
I always liked it; being physically light weight, the weapon wasn’t very heavy, so always a bonus to me. I was even quite a good shot with it. All HQ staff (soldiers) were issued with it, though I remember one exercise when for whatever reason I was issued a rifle; officers were given pistols.
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