Osprey Publishing have a bewildering array of historical works to choos from and here are 5 such focusing in on the German Waffen-SS Uncompromising and well-equipped, the core of the Waffen-SS were some of the most heavily indoctrinated of Germany’s elite soldiers who struck fear into the heart of many of their Allied opponents. Clad…
Fighting Retreat – The Battle of Boulogne, May 22nd, 1940 The skies were still a little darkened as the small convoy, led by the 1500 tonne destroyer HMS Whitshed, crawled through the near still waters on their approach to Boulogne harbour. With the dawn sun just peering over the horizon and the ships’ engines rumbling…
Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy (WSS) have been providing some fantastic painting tutorials over the past years (plus much, much more in the WSS wargaming magazine). With videos updated each Sunday – this week it’s a look back, and a delve into, painting German Camouflage, specifically the SS pea pattern. Colours German Cam.Medium Brown German Cam.Black…
Having risked Allied air and patrol boat attack and avoided sinking in the Mediterranean, the 15cm sFH auf Lorraine Schlepper(f) arrives to join your Afrika Korps and to take on Montey’s Desert Rats! View in Store The Lorraine 37L, or Tracteur de ravitaillement pour chars 1937 L (“Tank Supply Tractor 1937 L”), was a light tracked armoured…
Moving out from platform 1 on the Great S&W network is the 19:43 Train, heading to your battlefields with the armoured might of Germany! World War II saw the last hurrah for a number of weapon systems first devised in the nineteenth century. One such was the big-gun battleship and another was the armoured train. A 38t on an…
With Konflikt ’47 just around the corner and post war 1946/47 articles appearing everywhere, conversion fanatic Jakob lotz has been carving up the kits again to bring an awesome little cat to life, plus rules for it in Bolt Action, the ‘Paper Panzer’ VK1209: Jakob: The ”light” tank VK1602 Leopard was a planned German reconnaissance vehicle designed…
Mark Daley recently worked on a small Nachtjager (German Night Hunters) Gruppe for us but he didn’t just stop at that: Mark: I’m currently building a 1944 SS Division based around the 12th SS during the battles for Carentan, a key crossroads town in 1944, where they were tasked alongside Fallschirmjäger units to defend against the…
Formed around a core of Veteran Troops and armed with the new StG44, the Volksgrenadiers head to battle in defense of their homeland! View in Store After suffering a double loss (both Army group Center in Operation Bagration, and the Fifth Panzer Army to the Allies in Normandy) the German Army created some 78 Volksgrenadier…
Andy Singleton continues his battle plan to collect a large DAK force in Operation Sand Dune: As part of Carl’s, Sam’s and my own on going trip to the desert with Operation Sand dune, I’ve managed to get the core of my force finished at last. The Plan So far the force consists of 3…
Though it was too late to change the course of the war, experimental weapons such as the Vampir Sperber and Falke were the first examples of such gear as night-vision goggles and targeting systems that many modern soldiers use in the field today. View the Nachtjager Gruppe in Store By late 1944 experiments were taking…
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