The Russian Snipers proved to be some of the best of the war, scoring multiple kills and having numerous sniper aces. Unusually, the Red Army fielded many female snipers and they proved their worth with many confirmed victims. Some would go on to lead entire companies of snipers, such as Nina Lobkovskaya at the Battle…
Out today is this new metal boxed set of German Veteran Grenadiers – just the men to hold back the advancing Allies, be it in the dense bocage of Normandy, the German-held territories of North-West Europe or on the Eastern Front. Fighting to stave off the massed assaults of the Allies on the Eastern and Western…
Following on from the Panzer IV Zug, today we have the Panther Zug, containing 3 of these lethal German big cats clad in their distinctive zimmerit anti-magnetic mine paste: View in Store The Panther was the best all-round German tank of the war and although conceived as a medium tank, at 45 tons and with…
12 Days of Christmas – Day 12 The final offering in our 12 Days of Christmas is this early look at work-in-progess of the 3-ups for our forthcoming plastic panzergrenadiers, fresh from Wojtek’s workbench. As befits late war German soldiers they wear a mix of uniform styles – from the short M44 pattern tunic to…
12 Days of Christmas – Day 10 Today’s titbit is this wonderful new metal boxed set of German Veteran Grenadiers – due for release early in the New Year! Fighting to stave off the massed assaults of the Allies on the Eastern and Western Fronts, these battle- hardened German soldiers are armed with the deadly Sturmgewehr…
What could possibly be better than a German tank? Three German tanks of course! This boxed set contains exactly that – an armoured platoon ready to rumble into battle: View in Store Whilst the propaganda headlines may well have gone to the big cats such as the Panther and the Tiger, the Panzer IV was…
This late war Forward Observer team for the Waffen-SS provides highly disciplined troops ready to call in an air strike or artillery bombardment on Allied positions, their camouflaged uniforms ideal for their role as hidden observers… View in Store Here are a few more of the models available for the fanatical elite of the Waffen-SS:…
Finnish armies gain some welcome firepower this week with the arrival of these two German-supplied guns – the Finnish 75 PSTK/40 anti-tank gun and the Finnish 20 ITK/38 anti-aircraft gun. After encountering T-34 and KV-1 tanks, the Finns realized that heavier anti-tank equipment would be required. A total of 210 German 75mm PaK 40 Guns were purchased, capable of…
12 Days of Christmas – Day 6 Today’s surprise is an extract from the forthcoming Bolt Action Theatre Book – Ostfront: Barbarossa to Berlin. ‘For us there was no land beyond the Volga.’ Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Zaitzev first distinguished himself during the battle of Stalingrad as a superb sniper. He killed 225…
12 Days of Christmas – Day 4 Today’s treat is a look at these fearsome-looking Senegalese Tirailleurs for the French Army in Bolt Action. Sculpted by Steve Saleh and painted by Andrés Amián they’ll provide something rather different to your army. The Senegalese Tirailleurs were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army recruited from Senegal, French West…
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