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Lieutenant and Batman
It’s been a bit quiet on the Western front of late…i’ve been working my way through the infantry so nothing exciting to show. However I’ve taken a quick break from brown, green and ochre to model up some HQ units for the list.
The Lieutenant
First up is the senior officer of the platoon, the Lieutenant. This chap was compiled from two kits, a crew-member from the 17pdr and the head from the Morris tow’s driver. I thought i’d put an extra bit of work in to make the leader of the force a bit more unique.
Bit of trivia regarding the pronunciation of ‘lieutenant’. If you’re British, its convention to pronounce the rank as ‘Leftenant’, so called because the officer was said to have been ‘left in the tenancy’ of the platoon. The more you know!
Batman?
Next up…the Batman! No, not the deep-voiced cape donning vigilante! As the army list comes with an extra man in the Lieutenant’s unit, I thought id model him as the lieutenant’s assistant, know as a ‘Batman’. This chap started life as a crewmember for the British 6pdr gun, but with a switch of the arms and head, and some modelling on the denison smock, he’s now part of the 1st Airborne Division.
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