How to be an Armoured Farmer, building Hobart's Funnies in Glorious 15mm (and maybe 28mm if they arrive in time!)
Back to a bit more history
To cover all of the Hobart funnies I thought I’d spend a little bit of time talking about those funnies that I won’t be doing, either because they never made it into production, or if they did they were extremely rare.
First up the great man himself. There has been much written by Percy Hobart, he was originally a Royal Engineer officer in WW1, with the intervention of tanks he was fascinated in the use of them on the battlefield and joined the Royal Tank Corps. He was brigadier of the first permanent armoured brigade and when posted to the Middle East he was responsible for training the Mobile Force (Egypt), later to be renamed 7th Armd Div (The Desert Rats). At the start of WW2 General Wavell dismissed him into retirement and he joined the Chipping Campden Home Guard. A newspaper article brought to the attention of Churchill was key to his recommissioning into the Army and he was responsible for the training of 11th Armd Div to a very high standard. Then followed his key move to form and train what was to become 79th Armd Div, he was uniquely qualified for this following all of the experience he had amassed during his career and his highly effective training methods. And the rest, as they say, is history!
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