Blackshort Legion

Well, it's finished, two battalions of Spode's Blackshort Legion. I have posted some of these before but I thought I would put out the whole army as with 1:72 models it is the look of the total force that matters. The individual wee men are just too small to be impressive.

First up is the Infantry Battalion. From front to back: command company including der fuhrermobile and two companies of Stormtroops, then three companies of riflemen/LMGs, and finally two MG companies and a mortar company.

PS: Do you like the fascist salute.

“Roderick Spode is the founder of the Saviours of Britain, a fascist organisation better know as the 'Black Shorts'...
When you say 'shorts' mean 'shirts', of course.
No. By the time Spode formed his association, there were no shirts left. He and his adherents wear black shorts.
Footer bags, you mean?
Yes.
How perfectly foul.”
Jeeves & Wooster

Herr Schnicklegruber

The Armoured Battalion has a command company equipped with Whippets, six companies of FT-17s (two with cannon), a field gun battery with mover, a motorcycle scout section and a flight of Heinkel HE-51 fighter-bombers.

Roderick Spode: [his electoral platform] At birth, every citizen, as of right, will be issued with a British bicycle and an honest British-made umbrella. Thus assured of a mobile workforce adequately protected against the elements, this great country can go forward once more to glory!
Crowd: Hurray!
Barmy: I say. That's a jolly good idea.
Roderick Spode: Nothing stands between us and our victory except defeat! Tomorrow is a new day! The future lies ahead!
Barmy: D'you know, I never thought of that.

The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting "Heil, Spode!" and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: "Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?"
—P. G. Wodehouse, Bertie Wooster in The Code of the Woosters (1938)

Sir Roderick Spode.

'The British knee is strong! The British knee is muscular!"

And now to finish my Bluebell battalions.