Unboxing Bolt Action: SAS Jeeps
December 26, 2018 by johnlyons
John and Gerry have the distinct pleasure to unbox, not just a couple of SAS Jeeps for Bolt Action, but a supremely weird thing of which only 21 were ever made...
Warlord Games have outdone themselves in terms of detail for the SAS Jeeps with all the stowage you can possibly imagine, but it is the monstrosity that they have reconstructed for the tabletop that is truly a thing to behold. Containing one big slab of resin and four wheels, this thing can surely chug its way on to the tabletop and into your heart.
Would you let the 'weird thing' spearhead your army on the tabletop?
@avernos and @johnlyons How had you not heard of the Lizard… ???
probably because they’re rarer than hens teeth, 21 made. Some lost with the BEF and the rest sent to Africa. I’m shocked they made a model, it would be like them releasing at Tiger (P). They exist but really are you ever likely to see one. Moreover it’s so rare there are no rules for it in any of the BA books, we’re having to proxy it.
But I am sure they have been discussed before, I think @Oriskany mentioned them at one point.
link?
I can’t remember, if it was in one of his many articles on the desert war or something he discussed on one of his many appearances. So I will let him tell us if I am remembering it correctly.
I would add the Bison mobile pillbox
now that’s a bit of gear I can get behind
the sas jeeps are nice. I see alot of potential for small scale skirmish all you need is some german’s and Italian raiding forces and you have the makings of a great campaign. the mammut, as the german’s would call the lizard, rommel had a captured one so it could be the objective of a desert raid.
the mammut that Rommel had was a “Dorchester” AEC 4×4
I stand corrected. thanks for the clarification. both vehicles look alike.
My guess is they were produced under the same specifications by different companies for the army. So the general size and shape is similar but then closer inspection shows differences. Even on the Warlord website they say Rommel had a lizard, but every photo shows it’s a Dorchester, bevelled top armour and flat front covering the engine block. Still, I’ll be using it as a Dorchester for my British anyway, but it’s a weird little piece of WW2 esoterica
Just in case you wanted to know more Early development The first Armoured Command Vehicle (ACV) came into British service in 1927. This was a Vickers Medium tank with a square superstructure in place of the turret. In 1934 experimental wheeled Leyland and Morris ACVs were tested. In 1937 up to fifteen were manufactured but there was a need for a four-wheel drive and a more substantial chassis. In 1940, Guy Motors produced 21 ACVs on a 4×4 Lizard chassis with a 5-cylinder Gardner diesel engine. These were allocated the British War Department (WD) numbers L 4144684 to L 4144688,… Read more »
While the jeeps look great with lots of crisp stowage detail , I really wish that most of it was separate resin pieces so you could make a unique looking vehicle . As it is now my Jeep will look just like John’s and Jerry’s except for the paint job . Think I would rather build the Rubicon plastic SAS jeep , and add my own plastic / resin stowage bits .
especially when people want a really diverse look to their SAS/LRDG the two variations will soon stand out as they repeat throughout the force.
I’ve never been a fan of too much molded on detail , resin or plastic . I’ve always wanted a few of Warlord’s DD Shermans but have no idea how to make them not look like a clone force with all the same molded stowage . IRC Rubicon also has a LRDG truck due out mid 2019. Great times ahead for both resin and plastic 28mm modellers & gamers
I do like Rubicon’s stuff and now that they’re branching out more into non vehicle kits it’s looking better and better. Patton and dog are a particular favourite of mine.
I picked up a couple of their plastic blisters , Russian & German tank crews . Really great looking figures . Next on my list some of the Rubicon resin Sherman wadding trunks . Warlord is making some nice kits in plastic as well , the 88 looks nice ( I have Rubicons , with the wheel sets and crew ) shame Warlord gives you the old metal 88 crew . Are the Afrika Korp figures in the plastic 88 re box old or new metal figures ? Italeri , who made the plastic 88 for Warlord have their own… Read more »
It reminds me of the 40k Tauros from the Imperial Guard and if I were to build an SAS force for Bolt Action then hell yes do I want a weird thing leading it that is historical and hysterical at the same time.
These are on my to buy list for 2019.
love the video guys like the complexity? of the command build.
the four wheels had me stumped for a while as they weren’t labeled as to where they go. But once I realised I could put them anywhere it shorted the build time to 2-3 hours 😉
Lol.
The Lizard made round the corner from my old office in Wolverhampton. It’s ugly enough to show up in inter-war games EXCEPT it seems to have entered service too late. Were it not for that I’d definitely have one.
weirdly now I’ve seen it, I prefer it to the standard Dorchester, it has a bit more going on at the front. I could definitely see a Dad’s army Sealion game with one tootling about
And here’s me having got a load of Sea Lion minis ready to prime (literally today) and the Dad’s Army set is calling me to blow the dust off and paint it. Let’s not rule one of these out.
I’d use the Lizard as a command post for artillery, it’d be perfect for that role.
It’s also very good for camping holidays in the Cotswolds
Some time ago someone put up a picture of a Vickers command tank during a training exercise in England. I’m sure there was a Lizard in that photo as well
I like the idea of this rare vehicle photobombing old pics. I expect to see one behind Churchill with a Thomson, up the beach on DDay maybe being dropped for market garden. Where’s @lancorz he could do this
Leading the advance in the first Gulf War