More leaders pt 1 - British

 After painting the Roco personalities I had a bit of a leader review of my various 15mm forces, the earlier ones were done with much more tactical games in mind so have quite a selection of individual junior leaders for WRG/Crossfire type things, platoon HQs and so-on. The later ones were much more on the Command Decision/Spearhead model with platoon bases and battalion and regimental HQs, always with the option of stepping down a level or two (and in both cases stepping up for Megablitz/NQM type games).  In our various remote games I also like to field individual figures as the various players personality figures, and some armies are distinctly lacking in this regard.

After a bit of head scratching I ended up painting this lot! They fill in various missing gaps in the command structure for different armies, and add some variety to the individual leader figures.

First up are some British. My original  15mm Brits were done over 25 years ago and mainly aimed at WRG/Crossfire, so I have lots of individual figures and various platoon HQs. What I was missing was a higher level (3 figure) HQ, which in Command Decision would be a Brigade HQ and in Megablitz a Corps HQ. 

The original individual leaders were largely (Peter Pig) NCOs so many of then are toting SMGs and I wanted some more individual officer types instead. 

I was buying some stuff from Skytrex anyway, so I [picked up a pack of their British officers from the 15mm Command Decision Range. They work out rather cheaper per figure than their Peter Pig colleagues.

They are a really lovely set of 10 figures, each in a different pose! The Brigade HQ base has a Brigadier in a Service Cap, an ADC in a helmet and a beautifully moulded signaller sitting on an ammo box operating a field telephone (which makes a nice change from the usual radio sets).

These three are more junior officers waving pistols around. As someone once remarked, pistols main role in combat is to provide souvenirs for the enemy, and these guys have plenty. I did a couple of the figures in helmets and one in a cap, the figure on the left is obviously modelled on the famous photo of an Eighth Army Lt advancing crouched with his pistol held low, although he is cast with battledress trousers.

I didn't paint all of the figures in the pack as it is always wise to have a few officers in hand. These are all done in Vallejo English Uniform over a grey base with tan webbing, a pinwash around the equipment etc and then lightly drybrushed with Iraqi Sand.