Weird War 2 British Armoured Infantry

There are currently two manufacturers making British WWW2 armoured infantry, Warlord/Clockwork Goblin and West Wind.

The Warlord/Clockwork Goblin Galahad armoured infantry man.

 The West Wind British Steel armoured infantryman.

Two comparison shots

The British Steel is armed with a Vickers medium machine gun, the Galahad with a Bren light machine gun fitted with a drum magazine (if it was a K gun I would expect a higher rate of fire).

The British Steel is also available with a Boyes anti tank rifle, a flamethrower and a grenade/mortar gun. In the rules there are options to add disposable anti tank rockets (PIAT-D).

There are no weapon options on the Galahad,

British Steel WWW2 Armoured Infantryman

Here is a nearly completed West Wind SOTR British Steel Armoured Infantryman,

Armed with the water cooled Vickers medium machine gun, He carries a spare magazine on his left hip.

 Size comparison with William Killian,

 Supported by an M5A1.

Konflikt '47 Galahad Armoured Infantryman

So here is a nearly completed Galahad Armoured Infantryman for Conflict '47 and other weird war two games.

He is armed with a Bren light machine gun fitted with the drum magazine, and carries a spare on his left hip.

Supported by a Cromwell.

Supported by an M5A1

 For scale, here he is with William Killian.

British Steel WW2 Powered Infantry

After building the Warlord Games Galahad Armoured Infantry man, I thought I would dig out a West Wind SOTR British Steel armoured infantry man.

The first problem is the position of the arms. It appears that the position is with the gun nearly vertical and the support hand at head height.

I have to admit that that is not a particularly good pose and especially if you have a whole squad pointing their guns into the sky. In addition it is difficult to get the arms to match up.

So I took a razor saw to the arms, cutting the right arm at the wrist and the left arm beneath the shoulder. I then pinned the arms and used green stuff to fix them in place.

I still need to add the exhaust on the power pack. I am also going to add a couple of spare magazines.