Peter Laing Machine Gun Cyclsts

      At the Duchy of Tradgardland blog, tradgardland.blogspot.com the most recent posting had a post card and several illustrations of the 26th Middlesex cyclists. What really caught my eye was that in two of the pictures were that the cyclists had a machine gun deployed ready for action. The machine gun was on a carriage with what looks like bicycle wheels. And while searching for more pictures, I did come across a picture of a machine gun being towed behind a bicycle (unfortunately I didn't bookmark the page).

   As I have mentioned in the past among my favorite Peter Laing figures is the Victorian Parade cyclist figure. I have tried to mold these figures in the past, and after seeing the Tradgardland blog,  another attempt at this mold might be in order.  I also thought of a Peter Laing machine gun model which I really had never had much use for; until now.  I do believe this machine gun and the cyclist figure could make a reasonable war-game unit.  It also reminded me of another Peter Laing bicycle figure that Ian Dury gave me of a WW1 Belgium cyclist. These figures would be well suited for Little Wars type of games.