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wayne556517
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Dear All,
Well this is an exciting month for us with the release of our first tank. There were so many vehicles to choose from it was difficult to know where to start. I am hoping that our final choice and price bracket meets with general approval! The new NAPS figures are also in my opinion going to nicely fill out the French line a little more, with some British infantry following in a couple of months. The NAP line has been very successful so far along with the ATW series and I thank all of those who bought from us and support us in these 2 new series.
Our website has now been updated and a big thanks to Dave Reynolds (who is also a TGM collector) for all his help with this, a labour of love I think for him!
Last but not least some of you will know Guy Meire from the Treefrog Forum; I would personally like to thank him for his research with regards to our first Soviet tank. Although Guy did not know the exact vehicle we were producing, his research into captured German vehicles used by the Russians was invaluable.
Finally if you are receiving this email and don’t wish to hear about Thomas Gunn, please send me an email asking me to remove you from our mailing list and I will do so!
So without further delay please read below for what’s on offer for April 2012:
NAP007 Imperial Guard Kneeling to repel, features a French infantry soldier in the classic kneeling repel pose with bayonet fitted. The A version comes with a soldier wearing hat and blue trousers whilst the B version offers a figure wearing cream tan trousers with no hat and a nasty looking head wound!
Limited to 150 of each version and priced at $34 each, available in 2 weeks time.
NAP008 Imperial Guard Standing Repel, one of my favourite poses so far! A standing Guardsman with bayonet fitted ready to repel the British cavalry! The A version comes with blue trousers and the B version with cream white trousers.
Limited to 150 of each version and priced at $34 each, available in 2 weeks time.
NAP009 Imperial Guard Standing Reload: A Guardsman drop a ball down the barrel of his musket having just let off a salvo, the next stage of the reload would be to pack everything down with his ramrod. The A version comes in the standard blue trousers and the B version comes in grey trousers and wears no hat. Limited to 150 of each version and priced at $34 each, available in 2 weeks time.
NAP010 Imperial Guard Standing Reload with Ramrod: The last stage of the reload, the whole package of ball, wadding and gunpowder charge is then rammed down the barrel before the Guardsman brings the musket to his shoulder and fires again. The A version comes with blue trousers and the B version comes with tan trousers.
Limited to 150 of each version with normal price of $34 maintained, available in 2 weeks time.
ATW003 House Party Part 1: One of our most successful series to date the American Airborne soldier! This new set features 2 soldiers about to storm a suspect German held house/gun emplacement. The lead man prepares to pull the pin on a grenade whilst his buddy rapidly slips another clip out of his rifle mounted ammo pouch and into his carbine.
The A version sees our figures dressed as members of the 101st Screaming Eagles Airborne Division.
The B version features 2 ‘Pathfinders’ from the 82nd AB Division sporting their unique pattern camouflage uniforms! In real life this was achieved by painting olive drab green paint over the uniform and sometimes even over their webbing whilst wearing it!
Both sets limited to 150 of each version, priced at $64 and available now!
PARA008/COMM005 Tank Riders Part 2. Our final set of tank riders for the Para/Commando series! Featuring a Private laden down with a 2 inch mortar and ammo case, taking the weight of his feet by resting his butt on a wooden box! The second figure a Corporal, kneels down whilst cradling a Bren gun. Both figures work nicely with last months release ‘Tank Riders Part 1’ and all we need now is an Allied tank of our own for these boys to hitch a ride on!
Limited to 150 sets in each version, priced at $64 for the set and available now!
SS034 Hetzer: Our first tank and she’s a beauty! The Hetzer was yet another German tank based on the 38 tonner chassis from Czechoslovakia. Fitted with a 7.5cm cannon and a new armoured cabin with sloping armour this potent tank hunter was a source of great worry to the Allies. Around 2600 of these vehicles were built as tank hunters; other versions included a flamethrower and tank recovery vehicle.
The Western front version comes in a typical 3 tone camouflage pattern and is limited to 199 in this version. The winter version comes in a whitewash pattern with battle damage paint to the front and side where enemy shells have ricocheted off. The winter version is also limited to 199 vehicles in this colour scheme. These tanks actually look great with one of the figures from SS017 Brandenburgers perched on the back; this was more luck than design I have to admit! So if you have this figure you already have a ready made tank rider to go with the vehicle. If not then contact your dealer whilst stocks of these figures are still around!
Priced at a competitive $145, this represents outstanding value for such a limited edition model. We do have a few of the Normandy Hetzers here now and these will be going into our shop today. However the winter and Russian version will not be available for 2 weeks, when our main shipment arrives.
SOV001 Soviet Hetzer: Hopefully something of a surprise for some people! I was inspired and intrigued by photographs of a captured Hetzer driving thru Sofia in April 1945, for our first eastern front vehicle. To make it slightly different from our German Hetzer offerings, I have included a Russian tank rider officer armed with a Panzerfaust, who sits nicely on the back. Only 100 of this model have been made and as such it is one of our rarest vehicles made so far. Priced at $175 this is bound to be a collector’s vehicle highly sought after in the future. The majority will be available in approximately 2 week’s time when our main shipment arrives, the remainder arrive in 6 weeks so there maybe a delay between some orders.
Any queries please feel free to drop me an email and until next month take care.
Kind Regards
Tom
Well this is an exciting month for us with the release of our first tank. There were so many vehicles to choose from it was difficult to know where to start. I am hoping that our final choice and price bracket meets with general approval! The new NAPS figures are also in my opinion going to nicely fill out the French line a little more, with some British infantry following in a couple of months. The NAP line has been very successful so far along with the ATW series and I thank all of those who bought from us and support us in these 2 new series.
Our website has now been updated and a big thanks to Dave Reynolds (who is also a TGM collector) for all his help with this, a labour of love I think for him!
Last but not least some of you will know Guy Meire from the Treefrog Forum; I would personally like to thank him for his research with regards to our first Soviet tank. Although Guy did not know the exact vehicle we were producing, his research into captured German vehicles used by the Russians was invaluable.
Finally if you are receiving this email and don’t wish to hear about Thomas Gunn, please send me an email asking me to remove you from our mailing list and I will do so!
So without further delay please read below for what’s on offer for April 2012:
NAP007 Imperial Guard Kneeling to repel, features a French infantry soldier in the classic kneeling repel pose with bayonet fitted. The A version comes with a soldier wearing hat and blue trousers whilst the B version offers a figure wearing cream tan trousers with no hat and a nasty looking head wound!
Limited to 150 of each version and priced at $34 each, available in 2 weeks time.
NAP008 Imperial Guard Standing Repel, one of my favourite poses so far! A standing Guardsman with bayonet fitted ready to repel the British cavalry! The A version comes with blue trousers and the B version with cream white trousers.
Limited to 150 of each version and priced at $34 each, available in 2 weeks time.
NAP009 Imperial Guard Standing Reload: A Guardsman drop a ball down the barrel of his musket having just let off a salvo, the next stage of the reload would be to pack everything down with his ramrod. The A version comes in the standard blue trousers and the B version comes in grey trousers and wears no hat. Limited to 150 of each version and priced at $34 each, available in 2 weeks time.
NAP010 Imperial Guard Standing Reload with Ramrod: The last stage of the reload, the whole package of ball, wadding and gunpowder charge is then rammed down the barrel before the Guardsman brings the musket to his shoulder and fires again. The A version comes with blue trousers and the B version comes with tan trousers.
Limited to 150 of each version with normal price of $34 maintained, available in 2 weeks time.
ATW003 House Party Part 1: One of our most successful series to date the American Airborne soldier! This new set features 2 soldiers about to storm a suspect German held house/gun emplacement. The lead man prepares to pull the pin on a grenade whilst his buddy rapidly slips another clip out of his rifle mounted ammo pouch and into his carbine.
The A version sees our figures dressed as members of the 101st Screaming Eagles Airborne Division.
The B version features 2 ‘Pathfinders’ from the 82nd AB Division sporting their unique pattern camouflage uniforms! In real life this was achieved by painting olive drab green paint over the uniform and sometimes even over their webbing whilst wearing it!
Both sets limited to 150 of each version, priced at $64 and available now!
PARA008/COMM005 Tank Riders Part 2. Our final set of tank riders for the Para/Commando series! Featuring a Private laden down with a 2 inch mortar and ammo case, taking the weight of his feet by resting his butt on a wooden box! The second figure a Corporal, kneels down whilst cradling a Bren gun. Both figures work nicely with last months release ‘Tank Riders Part 1’ and all we need now is an Allied tank of our own for these boys to hitch a ride on!
Limited to 150 sets in each version, priced at $64 for the set and available now!
SS034 Hetzer: Our first tank and she’s a beauty! The Hetzer was yet another German tank based on the 38 tonner chassis from Czechoslovakia. Fitted with a 7.5cm cannon and a new armoured cabin with sloping armour this potent tank hunter was a source of great worry to the Allies. Around 2600 of these vehicles were built as tank hunters; other versions included a flamethrower and tank recovery vehicle.
The Western front version comes in a typical 3 tone camouflage pattern and is limited to 199 in this version. The winter version comes in a whitewash pattern with battle damage paint to the front and side where enemy shells have ricocheted off. The winter version is also limited to 199 vehicles in this colour scheme. These tanks actually look great with one of the figures from SS017 Brandenburgers perched on the back; this was more luck than design I have to admit! So if you have this figure you already have a ready made tank rider to go with the vehicle. If not then contact your dealer whilst stocks of these figures are still around!
Priced at a competitive $145, this represents outstanding value for such a limited edition model. We do have a few of the Normandy Hetzers here now and these will be going into our shop today. However the winter and Russian version will not be available for 2 weeks, when our main shipment arrives.
SOV001 Soviet Hetzer: Hopefully something of a surprise for some people! I was inspired and intrigued by photographs of a captured Hetzer driving thru Sofia in April 1945, for our first eastern front vehicle. To make it slightly different from our German Hetzer offerings, I have included a Russian tank rider officer armed with a Panzerfaust, who sits nicely on the back. Only 100 of this model have been made and as such it is one of our rarest vehicles made so far. Priced at $175 this is bound to be a collector’s vehicle highly sought after in the future. The majority will be available in approximately 2 week’s time when our main shipment arrives, the remainder arrive in 6 weeks so there maybe a delay between some orders.
Any queries please feel free to drop me an email and until next month take care.
Kind Regards
Tom
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Nice spread of releases, no mercy for the wallet it seems. Thanks Tom & Wayne I think. Cheers, Robin
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Wayne,
thanks for spreading the good news about the NAPs ......
my first order of the 8 x Grenadier Guards should be here next week, so looking forward to that
John
I just received 4 of them and they look excellent. I'll get 4 of the next batch too.
Terry
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Wayne,
thanks for spreading the good news about the NAPs ......
my first order of the 8 x Grenadier Guards should be here next week, so looking forward to that
John
I will look forward to a beer and a inspection of the new troops mate.
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That's an interesting story because during the war, there is Quartermaster correspondence showing interest in adopting the Corps of Engineers OD9 paint color as a new basic uniform dye color. As usual, the pathfinders got there first! I know nothing of uniform dyes, but iirc, this OD9 color was indeed used by the QM post war as OD Shade #8.
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Great to see more paratroopers!
