Great War Canadian Vickers Machine-Gun Teams

I just finished up the last of the Great War Canadian Vickers machine-gun teams I currently have (I do need a few more, but I’ll probably be waiting until the new year to pick them up).

(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version):

The new teams, from left to right: 1st Corps, Gripping Beast/Woodbine Design (in back), Wargames Foundry (in front) and 1st Corps again. 

These are all of the teams for the Canadian Corps so far. There will be four per division and represent roughly a company. I need about three more.

Having finished them up I thought I’d do a post highlighting all of them and maybe even taking some comparison shots.

1st Corps

Gripping Beast/Woodbine Design

Wargames Foundry

Renegade Miniatures

Old Glory

Great War Miniatures

Brigade Games

Here are a few comparrison shots..



Top row, left to right: Great War Miniatures, Old Glory, Gripping Beast/Woodbine Design

Bottom row, left to right: Brigade Games, Renegade Miniatures, 1st Corps, Wargames Foundry



Here I tried to line them up from biggest to smallest guns - left to right: Renegade Miniatures, Brigade Games, 1st Corps, Great War Miniatures, Old Glory, Gripping Beast/Woodbine Design, Wargames Foundry.



As above, slightly different angle.



The biggest and smallest. Wargames Foundry on the left, Renegade Miniatures on the right.



The three big 'uns: Renegade Miniatures, Brigade Games, 1st Corps. They are all about the same thickness, but the one from Renegade is clearly longer. (With a statement like that I feel a little like a porn reviewer comparing dicks...)



 Great War Miniatures (left) and Gripping Beast/Woodbine Design (right)



Great War Miniatures (left) and Old Glory (right)



Wargames Foundry (left) and Old Glory (right)

I originally took a few more pics but a lot were out of focus or just didn't turn out, but I think the above does a pretty good idea of showing the differences and similarities. I'm not terribly concerned by them. These will be spread out all over teh battlefield - the differences are really only noticable when you line them up next to each other and critically compare.

I wish I could have gotten the Canadian Auto Car Machine Gun Carrier I picked up from 1st Corps , but alas I haven’t had the time to assemble it…

I realized afterward taking and editing all these pictures that I do actually have a vickers team from Battle Honors - but they're in shorts and Wolseley helmets... I guess they'd do to show relative sizes of guns... Ah well... some other time. 

For those that get anxious about the significance of certain numbers – with these I have finished precisely 666 28mm foot figures so far this year. Well behind where I’ve been at this point in some of my more productive years, but I should bring that up over 700 and possibly closer to 800 by the end of the year, which no one can really say is insignificant…

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

I wish I could say it would be the 19th (Central Ontario) Battalion, CEF, but it won’t I have a few more individual ancient figures I’ve been working on in between units and stuff. I have STARTED the 19th (Central Ontario) Battalion, and hopefully I’ll be posting them later in the week!  Also work has slowed on the 4^th Brigade as I’ve stopped to convert a few spare officers into the riflemen I need them to be!