S Range Field Defences

Following my last post when I unexpectedly acquired these along with an S Range Napoleonic Austrian Army I thought they would be an appropriate post here.

If you studied your S Range catalogue carefully you could find a section called Miscellaneous, which contained goodies including camp followers, generals of different periods, pack horses and oxen, and Napoleon sat at a table.

The above are FSD 1s and FSD 2s, Horse and Musket Period Field Defences, Chevaux de Frise - 60mm length at the back of the photograph - and Stakes - 55mm at the front.

These are heavy lumps of metal and I had never seen them before.

FSD 3s and 4s were gabions and fascines.

Bellona Manuals of Military Field Works of the 18th & 19th Centuries and of the 20th Century

I posted about Bill Holmes here back in 2010. You may remember the Deltorama adverts from Wargamer's Newsletter, or his Journal (pre-blogs) which was featured in Don Featherstone's Solo Wargaming.

I have had the first of these two booklets for some time but just bought the second from eBay, so I thought they were worth a post. His drawing style was very distinctive and I thought they also deserved a post as an example of Bellona publications. If you want to see three examples of 19th Century military bridging or three types of 20th Century latrines these are the books for you. Cost on publication was 5/-.

Bellona Rubber Buildings take 2

David has sent me this photo showing the base of the buildings, marked "Bellona" and with a code number.

Bellona Rubber Buildings

Yes - Bellona not Triang Countryside
Yes - rubber not vac form plastic.

With thanks to DavidP for the photograph of these recent acquisitions of his.

Some are marked with reference numbers - small house H4 front left, bunker M4 in thhe middle, with larger  house H3 and ruined version HD3 behind it on the right. The haystack is in the same style but with no reference number or Bellona branding at the back.

Bellona Battlegame and Diorama Pieces

I am indebted to Mike for a series of photographs of his beautifully painted examples of many of the Bellona vacuum formed terain pieces, which are posted below.

The catalogue is available on a previous post here.

This series of posts has taken Vintage Wargaming, after a long hiatus, past the 500 posts count.

U-B5 Bellona WW1 German Trench Position

U-BB17 Bellona Nissen Hut in Natural Setting

U-RV8 Bellona Canal Wharf Set

This is the main piece - there were two further river sections and one sheet of rock face

U-A1 Bellona Row of Three Houses - Low Relief

U-D1 Bellona 1914-1918 Trench System

U-D2 Bellona The Menin Road

with and without ruined house

U-D3 Bellona The Redan

with and without bomb shelter roof

U-D4 Bellona Twin 88mm Gun Position

with and without bunker roof

U-D5 Bellona Fighter Dispersal Bay

with and without bunker roof

U-D6 Bellona 7.5ck Anti-Tank Strong Point

without and with bunker roof

U-D7 Bellona Ambush

U-D8 Bellona Fortified Beach Position

With and without pillbox roof

U-D9 Bellona The Ravine

UD-10 Bellona Roman Marching Fort

U-D11 Bellona three Nissen huts in natural setting