The Big Push 4.

A British Mounted Machine Gun Squadron for the Syria 1918 demo game at Colours 2018. As time is short a few time saving painting shortcuts have been made on these figures. They still pass muster to my eyes. The deployed piece is the Britsh Cavalry Vickers Team from Great War Miniatures with a Woodbine headswap. The transport is a very satisfying composite made from odds and sods in the bits box. The horses and drivers come from the Wargames Foundry WW1 British Limber set (the drivers have a Woodbine headswap to give them tin helmets with neck flaps), the limber with stowage is from Tiger Miniatures and the Limbered GS wagon is what remains from the Great War Miniatures Machine Gun Wagon set (horses, drivers and wheels were long since canibalised for other projects). The wheels were in the bits box and were the same size as those on the Tiger Miniatures limber. The tarp over the contents of the wagon is a simple a piece of masking tape. I opted to paint the personel wearing khaki serge as while watching film of the 1918 campaign through Syria it was clear that a lot of serge was being worn rather than khaki drill.