British Airborne Pt. 7- Jeeps

Recce Jeep

This is a Warlord vehicle, which I immediately wanted to include in my force. I debated whether to have a different vehicle in my armoured car slot, but this felt like the only real option. The trailer, for me, differentiates this jeep from the run-of-the-mill 'transport' jeeps- that and the MMG bolted to the front.

Signals Jeep

This Warlord vehicle is simply a cosmetic variant on the other 'transport' jeeps I have for this force, but because of its nature, I use it for ferrying my Lieutenant and his entourage about. Sometimes I attach the medic to my officer, other times the Intelligence officer hops on for a ride instead. I like the crew on this piece- particularly the radio operator.

Transport Jeeps

I have 3 of these vehicles, from Paint & Glue, with passengers from Artizan Designs. When I saw these separate items from these two manufacturers, I immediately put them together in my head as an option for my airborne force.

Paint & Glue do a whole bunch of different jeeps. I picked ones without windscreens because airborne jeeps had them removed to fit into Hamilcar gliders, and made sure I picked three with spare tyres/ jerry cans/ stowage in different configurations.

There is a bit of a scale mismatch. These jeeps are slightly smaller than my Warlord jeeps, and the Artizan crew look a bit oversized as a result- their knees come up over the dashboard! I had to remove the original, bulky steering wheels to fit in the driver, but made a replacement from the curved end of a paperclip. Slight quibble aside, I like these vehicles. Used as a group to ferry a section of paras around, they do their job nicely, and do not stand out as being out of scale; and for £4 a pop, I won't argue.

(Note: I house rule that a 10 man section/squad can travel around in 3 jeeps, which in the BA rules only has transport capacity for 9 men usually. There are numerous photos of allied troops hanging out of jeeps on all sides, so realistically I could imagine the last man squeezing on somewhere. Mostly, this is down to laziness and thrift. I didn't want to buy and paint a fourth jeep, but I think my justification is valid...)