Paint & Review: Wargames Atlantic British Expeditionary Force How I Paint Things

Thanks to Wargames Atlantic for sending along a box of these rather natty new miniatures to have a play with! Check them out here: The British Expeditionary Force would be thrown back across the Channel by the relentless German blitzkrieg, culminating in the famed evacuation of Dunkirk. In the tense days that followed, the threat of invasion loomed large in the minds of Great Britain's government, and steps were taken to raise a citizen militia capable of resisting a potential hostile landing by sea or air long enough for the nation's beleaguered regular forces to mount a counter attack. Stood down in late 1944 and officially disbanded on the last day of 1945, the Local Defence Volunteers - later the Home Guard - would most famously return to the public consciousness with the television show 'Dad's Army,' which poked fun with a knowing wink at the slightly haphazard, slapdash efforts of the early