The 33rd Waffen-SS Charlemagne (1st French) were French volunteers in the Wehrmacht and latterly the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. From estimates of 7,400 to 11,000 at its peak in 1944, the strength of the division fell to just sixty men in May 1945. They were one of the last German units to see action in a pitched battle during the war, where they held…
Neil Burt (AKA Troop of Shewe) does it again with these amazing conversions of three M5 Halftracks. Outstanding work! Two of them have modelled in passengers, made from the plastic British Infantry. The third is a command vehicle with an officer checking his maps and his orders.
In the last days of Germany’s war, many desperate civilians were drafted into the Volksturm to defend Berlin. Armed with whatever they could lay their hands on, old men, wounded soldiers, and even those too young for regular service were expected to hold back the unstoppable Red Army. This new metal boxed set brings you…
Out today is our SS-Sturmbataillon Charlemagne metal boxed set – Frenchmen who volunteered to fight for Germany against the Bolshevik Soviets. The Second World War saw many confusing contradictions as politics and ideals clashed in epic campaigns that were once thought inconceivable. One such oddity was the Charlemagne division, the 33. SS-Grenadier Division which fought…
By 1945 the German Army was a beaten force. It could not surrender, damned by Hitler’s orders to fight to the last man and the Allies’ demand for an unconditional surrender that the Nazi Party could not accept. The war ground on as the Russian armies approached from the east, targeting Berlin itself, and the western Allies fought through the…
The latest Bolt Action vehicle to leave the massed tank factories of Tankograd, this stunning BT-7 fast tank will give your Soviet army one of it’s most numerous armoured fighting vehicles of the war with 7,000-8,0000 being produced! The BT-7 was the last of the BT series of Soviet cavalry tanks that were produced in large numbers between 1935 and 1940 (BT…
There’s just no stopping Neil Burt (also known as Troop of Shewe) – this week we’re showing off two Bolt Action British Cruisers, the A9 Mk I and A10 Mk II, with Neil’s usual array of lovely additional details: As you can see, Neil pulls out all the stops with hjs models and these are…
A newcomer to our forum, Luigi, posted up these pictures of his Universal Carrier with some lovely extra modelling details. As you can see the crew have had a successful day ‘foraging’ for supplies from a local village. Great work!
For the rest of April from today, every order we receive will be entered into a prize draw to win our huge Pegasus Bridge battle set! Loads of people were drooling over this stonking kit at Salute over the weekend, so we thought we’d give everyone a chance to get their hands on one. Every…
The Italian Army receives some welcome heavy fire support this week in the shape of this medium howitzer. Starting out as a mountain gun in the Austro-Hungarian army during The Great War, the 100/17 Modello 14 was a Skoda-designed medium howitzer. It proved a reliable weapon and remained in service into World War II, making up the…
Graham Davey