Created by the Canadian commander Lt-General Guy Simonds as an expedient way of reducing losses in his infantry and to be able to maneouvre along with the tanks, the Ram Kangaroo served the forces of the British commonwealth well henceforth. The conception of the Ram Kangaroo is one of the key reasons for dedicated APCs being introduced…
The first in the line of true German armoured cars, The 6-wheel drive Sd.Kfz 231 had excellent mobility. Used in Aufklarungs units (reconnaissance) during the early stages of the war they saw action in the Fall of France, the Blitzkrieg attack on Poland and during the invasion of Soviet Russia. In the German Army, armoured…
As part of Britain’s slow re-armament programme during the mid 1930’s, the Morris was tasked with swiftly developing an interim armoured car design. Based on its C8 Commercial 4×2 truck, the chassis was lengthened and an armoured, riveted hull mounted. Armament was either a Boys AT rifle and Bren LMG or a Vickers 7.7mm MG…
We’ve been releasing new resin vehicles at a startling rate of knots. To help you add them to your army we’ve put together a fresh batch of Platoon Deals – see them here. 3x Panzer II for £48, saving £6 3x Char D1 for £48, saving £6 3x M36 Jackson for £60, saving £6 3x LVT-4 Buffalo for £68,…
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…
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…
If anyone mentions the Blitzkrieg period of the Second World War you can guarantee most images going through one’s mind is that of grey-painted Panzer IIs and Panzer IVs tearing across the Polish or French countryside, sweeping all before them. To aid your brave soldats conquer all before them for the glory of the Third…
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 –…
Neil at Troop of Shewe has been burning the midnight oil to get a load of our vehicles painted in time for the photo shoots on the forthcoming Bolt Action rules we’re releasing in conjunction with Osprey Publishing later this year. Here is a look at some of his stunning work on our German armour…
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…
Andy Hobday