Yorkshire Wartime 2025

This was a military show held on a farm near Doncaster last weekend.  As well as many military vehicles, there were also re-enactment groups.  The static displays were joined periodically by drive-pasts and skirmishes.  Oh, and trade stands selling everything from hot dogs to WW2 uniforms.

Above; Austin Champ - ultimately this lost out to the simpler, lighter and cheaper LandRover.

M8 Greyhound.

US halftrack

Daimler scout car

and again!

another halftrack

Universal Carrier

M18 Hellcat

M29 Weasel.  Someone once tried to sell me one of these.

M3 scout car

Stug III - or is it?  It's actually a very good replica on am FV432 chassis.

WW2 German road signs

Swiss(!) Panzer 68

ex-Israeli M50 Super Sherman

Kubelwagen

Happily I didn't need the first aid tent...

Bogward PKW.  I understand this is a fully restored vehicle - even the engine is origina.

Bedford QL

Sdkfz-7 leading a Matador.  It was like watching the Airfix catalogue driving past.
 

More Austin Champs

Bedford RL

Sdkfz-7 again

Austin K-2 Ambulance.  Ice Cold in Doncaster?

Leyland Hippo

Jeep with 37mm AT gun

Soviet motorcyclists

Matador again

More KuK aircraft

Back in 1917, things just keep getting better for the lucky chaps of my kuk forces. These are diecast models with some plastic parts. I’ve tarted them up a little with A-H markings.

The Aviatik (right) was well regarded by its pilots, but the Hansa Brandenberg was apparently a real bag of spanners. Designed by one Ernst Heinkel. I wonder what became of him….

Austro-Hungarian MG team, 1917 style

 Another kuk MG team. The sand-coloured parts are from an ICM kit and the figures began life as….modern Chinese infantry!

Austro-Hungarian MG team, 1914 style

More bodging of Great War Austrians now. Hollowcast MG & gunner, plastic card shield, loader is an old Tamiya WW2 German AT crewman. Replacement heads by ScaleLink.