JTinQT - Week Nine - More VBCW Government Forces - The DFF's

Hi All

Few more government forces in VBCW genre and pleased to get on to a unit I knew I definitely wanted to field, although militarily they had a terrible record. The "DFF's" or Damm Fine Fellows! This was also a play on the initials of the unit commander Dominic Farrar-Foxley, old Etonian, City of London banker and socialite with royal family links. A brilliant publicist Farrar-Foxley made sure that the unit had plenty of newspaper coverage where they were often referred to with the other nickname of "The Chaps".

Here are the first six figures, from Footsore with an additional very old Western "Doc Holiday" gunfighter figure from somewhere, anyway he had the appropriate head ware!

    The Footsore figures represent the unit at the start of the conflict in civvies dress, although with his royal influence Farrar-Foxley was able to gain access to army equipment very quickly and later they adopted a more quasi army look. However the suits were typically from Marks and Spencer and very hard wearing so remained popular as a uniform throughout. I included the Footsore fictional "Bertie Wooster" figure with a few small adjustments and painted to fit in with the overall DFF unit look.

As mentioned the DFF's did have a terrible and incompetent military record. This is typified by the units destruction, hit in a friendly fire incident from its own mortar section during the Wimbledon Common skirmish. Still great to see more modern revisionist accounts stressing the value the unit had as a symbol of conservative English fightback.

Hopefully more to come next week .........

All the best Jez