Tag: Bolt Action
New: Bolt Action M36 Jackson!
Produced as a solution to the increasing ineffectiveness of the M10 tank destroyer against heavy panzers, the M36 Jackson was introduced. With it’s 90mm gun mounted on the standard M10 hull, the M36 entered service late in 1944 and went onto see action in the Korean war. The main US tank destroyer, the M10, was…
Preview: Early war German tank crew
Warlord sculptor Wojtek is collecting an early war German army (odd thing for a Pole to do but then he is a bit odd…) so it wasn’t hard to persuade him to sculpt a set of new tank crew for the Third reich’s push into Poland, France and the Low Countries. See the forthcoming tankers…
New: Soviet Assault Engineers!
This week the Red Army received reinforcements in the form of these engineers in body armour! The first pack contains 8 combat engineers, equipped with a variety of weaponry – from the ubiquitous PPSh SMG, DP-28 LMG, flamethrower and a variety of anti-tank weaponry! On August 19th in the Smolensk region, Soviet forces were continuing…
New: Carden Loyd carriers!
One of the most important designs in the history of tank development, the Carden Loyd tankette inspired a huge number of similar vehicles worldwide, including the Panzer I and Russian T-27. Now you can add several variants of the carrier along with a 2cm Oerlikon gun and crew to your army. The Carden Loyd tankettes…
New Bolt Action logo!
Work on many elements of the forthcoming Bolt Action WWII rules that we’re producing in conjunction with Osprey Publishing is coming along nicely. As a taster here is the new Bolt Action logo to whet your appetites!
New: Achilles 17pdr SPG!
Over 1,000 M10 tank destroyers were converted by the British by adding the deadly Ordnance QF 17 pounder anti-tank gun in place of the standard 3″ (76.2 mm) Gun M7. The British and Canadian forces now had another weapon to deal with the German heavy panzers. The standard infantry anti-tank gun was the 6 pdr –…
New: Bolt Action US Army M2 50 Cal HMG team!
Joining the M1 81mm Mortar and .30 cal light machine gun as support weapons for the US Army is this new heavy machine gun team. The M2 .50 Cal is an automatic, belt-fed, recoil operated, air-cooled machine gun. Although it has a maximum range of 4.5 miles the .50 Cal was mostly effective within 1.2 miles when…
New: Bolt Action US Army 30 Cal LMG teams!
With our forthcoming plastic Bolt Action US Infantry almost here we thought it a good idea to start giving them all the support they’ll need to fight the Axis forces. This week sees us bring you three new support teams with this one being the .30 Cal light machine gun (the others being the .50…
New: Bolt Action LVT-4 Buffalo!
The latest new vehicle for our Bolt Action range is the LVT-4 Buffalo. We’ve wanted one of these for ages! The Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) a small amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Army during World War II. Although conceived to ferry supplies from ship to shore, the LVTs…