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:…
12 Days of Christmas – Day 1 Kicking off our 12 Days of Christmas, here’s your first tasty present: a work-in-progress shot of the Sd.Kfz.135 Marder I. With the fall of France in 1940 the German victors found themselves with many thousands of vehicles. Some were pressed into service by their new owners whilst others were…
Michael Wittmann was one of Germany’s most famous ‘panzer aces’ of World War II. During his career he was credited with destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns. He fought throughout the war until his death. During the battle of France and invasion of Greece he commanded a Stug III assault gun (Sturmgeschutz III)….
Available now! Our latest plastic kit for Bolt Action – the Puma Sd.Kfz 234/2 Armoured Car. View in Store The Puma is, arguably, one of the best-looking armoured cars of WWII. A variant of the Sdkfz 234 it boasted a fully enclosed turret with a 5cm gun and thicker armour than other variants. Despite this additional…
Carentan was a small town of about 4,000 people. It also happened to be right next to the N-13 highway as well as the Cherbourg-Paris railroad, and sat in between Utah and Omaha beaches. Soon after the invasion of Normandy, this sleepy French port town would become a critical objective. The day after D-Day, Omaha and Utah beaches had…
Released today the latest addition to our fast-growing range of plastic 1:56 scale Bolt Action vehicles is this eagerly awaited Panzer IV medium tank! This plastic kit contains all the parts you need to make one of three versions of this iconic panzer – either the short-barrelled Ausf. F1 version, the long barrelled F2/G, or…
Bad news for Allied tank commanders this week – the mighty Nashorn tank destroyer is here! View in Store Originally named the Hornisse (German for Hornet, the Nashorn (Rhinoceros), was a tank destroyer developed in 1942 by equipping the deadly Pak 43 heavy anti-tank gun onto a turretless Panzer IV chassis. Though only lightly armoured…
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