June 2020 Figures (1 Viewer)

[Gunn Miniatures]

New Terrain Mats All these mats are now on our website and priced at £20/$30, check the website for more details.

First one comprises a railway crossing and cobblestone mat

Cobblestone/Grass

Muddy Grass

That's all this month folks, I hope you enjoyed the pictures and please feel free to contact us if you wish to touch base or buy any of our products. Our website is www.tomgunn.co.uk and there will be more photos available there for you to peruse.The best email is welcome@gunnclub.co.uk for any correspondence and we look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes The Gunn Team

 

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LUFT022 Hans Ulrich Rudel & Doctor Gadermann

A product of Silesia, German, Rudel was an utterly unstoppable Stuka bomber pilot who received more medals for bravery than any other German soldier of World War II. This guy was so hardcore that even to this day he remains the most decorated combat pilot of any nation in the history of warfare. He was issued his country's highest award for military valour on five separate occasions, which is an utter mind-hump considering that he was serving in a war where successfully flying five combat missions in a row without exploding was pretty much considered a noteworthy achievement. His record of killing over five hundred enemy tanks in combat is a feat that will likely never be duplicated.

During the invasion of Poland, Rudel worked as a forward observer, flying recon missions over enemy territory and sending back reports to help coordinate the Blitzkrieg. After realizing that being on the front line of a war is far less terrifying when you are sitting in the cockpit of an aircraft that actually comes equipped with some sort of weaponry, Rudel transferred to dive-bomber training in 1940, where he learned the ins and outs of the notorious Ju-87 Stuka Dive Bomber. Now the Ju-87 wasn't exactly a glamorous aircraft. It was slow, ugly, hard to manoeuvre, and the landing gear was premanently in the "down" position, but it was also one of the deadliest pieces of machinery in the entire war, when flown by the right pilot. Equipped with a few hundred pounds of heavy bombs and sporting two under-wing mounted 37mm anti-tank cannons, this thing was the predecessor of the A-10 Warthog. At the controls of a Stuka, Rudel was a maestro of bomb-humping the living daylights out of any piece of equipment larger than an outboard speedboat motor. Flying in the 1st Squadron of Dive Bomber Group 2, Rudel spent a solid five years of his life turning any and all vehicles with a Soviet Red Star into busted, melted-down hunks of twisted steel and corpse-parts. It got to be to the point where you seriously couldn’t ride your bike through the Ukraine without this psychotic dive-bomber air-mailing a bomb into your eye socket.

Rudel flew 500 missions on the Eastern Front between 1940 and 1942, which is pretty impressive, especially when you consider that U.S. bomber pilots were usually allowed to go home after completing 25 missions without dying (an incredibly rare achievement in its own right). The German hurricane of bombicide was awarded the Knight's Cross a couple more times (including once when he was given the award by The Red Baron's cousin), and returned home with enough awards and honours to snap a camel in half. He was made an instructor at a German flight school, and asked to train new recruits in how to be awesome at flying Stukas. Rudel got bored of this pretty quickly and requested to return to the battlefield. He was made squadron commander, flew 500 more missions between 1942 and '43, killed twelve T-34 tanks in one day during the Battle of Kursk, and made such a name for himself as a destroyer of Russian armour that Stalin himself put a huge bounty out on Rudel's head.

All in all, Hans-Ulrich Rudel flew 2,500 combat missions, more than any pilot ever for any country, in any period of time before or since. His stats speak for themselves,11 airplanes, 519 tanks, 4 trains, 70 landing craft, two cruisers, a destroyer, a battleship, and over 1,000 enemy trucks and transport vehicles met their end at his hands. He received the Knight's Cross (Germany's answer to the Victoria Cross or the Medal of Honor) five times, they seriously had to invent awards to add to his Knight's Cross, because there wasn't anything in the book for what you give a guy who already has the Cross with oak leaves, swords, diamonds, bells, whistles, etc.

Rudel flew to the west and surrendered to the Americans who refused to hand him over to the Russians. He moved to Argentina as his right wing views were not welcome in the new Germany and over the course of time married 3 women (not at the same time), all by coincidence called Ursula!
He did eventually return to Germany and died in 1982, stating he would fight the whole war all over again given the chance. Needless to say Rudel is still hated to this day by just about everybody in Russia.

Thanks to Ben Thompson for the above review, I had to abridge and edit some of the original wording but his style of writing is entertaining to say the least. Ben says himself he hates to glorify the Nazis but he gives credit wherever its due and Rudel was an epic pilot, unfortunately its a shame he was not fighting for the Allies!

We have a limited edition of 100 pieces of this 2 man set featuring Rudel resting his arm on his chair after 1 glass too many and his rear gunner Doctor Gaddermann enjoying a drop of 'something' whilst taking some down time away from the front line.
Priced at $99/£89 which includes the 2 figures, table and chairs plus the other goodies shown in the photos.

 

[Gunn Miniatures]

WW2 The Pacific:

To commemorate the 75th end of WW2 we have released a Far East commemoration set which will include 7 new figures portraying the Japanese surrender to Allied forces in August 1945. This month we have 3 new figures available as follows:

RS068 Japanese soldier stood to attention
RS069 Japanese officer with sword stood to attention
RS070 Australian on guard with rifle
All sets limited to 100 sets worldwide and priced at $42.50/£39 for a single figure.

Once again we have a special offer for those of you interested in the mat and jungle hut, see details below.

As a footnote similar scenes were recreated all over the Pacific and also with the Russian forces after the Soviet invasion of Japan towards the end of the war. For those of you interested there are a couple of photos from this fascinating period in history.

ANNOFF011 comprises jungle hut with terrain mat as shown for price of $100/£90.
This is a saving of $35 off the regular price.

 

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VW003 Standing Firing Seaforth Highlander

 

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VW002 Kneeling Firing Highlaner

 

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VW001 Reloading Highlander

 

[Gunn Miniatures]

Victorian Wars (New Series)

The Second Boer War was fought between the British empire and the Boers who were settlers mainly of Dutch origin living in the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. Initially the Boers were successful and won some notable victories which galvanised the British government to send more troops to the troubled region.

Soldiers from all over the British empire took part in the long bloody conflict including Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Eventually through conducting a scorched earth policy, the rounding up of civilians into concentration camps and overwhelming military numbers on the battlefield, led to more and more Imperial victories and eventually the British empire forced the Boers to the negotiating table in 1902. All is fair in love and war as they say.

Our first figures are from the Seaforth Highlanders, who fought in South Africa during this campaign. For those of you who collect this era these troops could also be used in the Sudan and Afghanistan. We will be expanding the series next month with more Highlanders including some epic twin sets and Boers. To follow later in the year will be Australian cavalry and Canadian artillery.

A big thank you to Marco from Italy who helped with the uniforms and equipment for this series.

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[Gunn Miniatures]

The Zulu Wars

A dead Zulu SFA031 makes a useful addition to your battlefield. Priced at $45/£40 per figure.



SFA031B Dead Zulu plus British solider administering the Coupe de Grace for the special price of $55.

 

[Gunn Miniatures]

An Immortal shouts encouragement to his comrades or is he hurling abuse at the enemy? .
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Limited to 40 sets in number each variant worldwide and priced at $45/£40 per figure for the month of June with normal price of $55 effective from July 2020.








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[Gunn Miniatures]

Persian immortal with spear ready for action.

Our price for the Persians is normally $55 but for the month of June these will all be available at the discounted price of $45 per figure. No other Club discounts will apply.
Limited to 40 in number each variant and priced at $45/£40 per figure.

 

[Gunn Miniatures]

Dear All

Welcome to our June 2020 newsletter with some great new additions.

A return to the Ancients with two new Persians this month and for those of you into the Roman series, we also have some new figures soon along with Barbarians to do battle with them, pictures below in the newsletter. Speaking of Ancients there will be some very new and exciting Egyptians coming later in the year,one of these in particular will be a real feast for the eyes.

We also have some WW2 figures this month including the most decorated airman of all time.
No new vehicles this month, but watch this space for more news very soon. I do have pictures of a prototype just sent in to us, but lets leave some of the news for later in the month! Too much of a good thing and all that.

New Romansand Barbarians coming soon

An all action scene, one could say that at least this Roman will not have to worry about getting a haircut during the current lockdown!

 

[ccdc11]

Julie will you be selling the terrain matts ?

 

[Guest]

Just WOW, this is one of the best monthly releases from any manufacturer I have seen in a while, only the Luftwaffe set and the Aussie for me, plus a couple of mats, but promise of more Romans with this new set and the one highlighted last month look great. A new range and a reduction in another range prices, not to mention a new vehicle and more planes later this month.

Great work, particularly during these trying times, what an effort.

 

[marco55]

Very nice releases.
Mark

 

[Horus]

Unfortunately for me I chose to concentrate on the one Persian shield design, the Red and Yellow stripes on the Rectangle shield from the previous releases, not being done with these new releases ! {sm2}

Still, a promise of returning Romans to look forward to !

Quite curious as to what the future vehicle to be announced will be, so look forward to that !

Steve

 

[Guest]

Dear All

Welcome to our June 2020 newsletter with some great new additions.

A return to the Ancients with two new Persians this month and for those of you into the Roman series, we also have some new figures soon along with Barbarians to do battle with them, pictures below in the newsletter. Speaking of Ancients there will be some very new and exciting Egyptians coming later in the year,one of these in particular will be a real feast for the eyes.

We also have some WW2 figures this month including the most decorated airman of all time.
No new vehicles this month, but watch this space for more news very soon. I do have pictures of a prototype just sent in to us, but lets leave some of the news for later in the month! Too much of a good thing and all that.

New Romansand Barbarians coming soon

An all action scene, one could say that at least this Roman will not have to worry about getting a haircut during the current lockdown!

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Which era and theatre do you think, I see the ponytail but do not think it is 1970s rock musicians, so what do people think?

 

[Horus]

Which era and theatre do you think, I see the ponytail but do not think it is 1970s rock musicians, so what do people think?

Perhaps during Domitian's reign and Gaulish/German enemy !?

Steve

 

[Gunn Miniatures]

Unfortunately for me I chose to concentrate on the one Persian shield design, the Red and Yellow stripes on the Rectangle shield from the previous releases, not being done with these new releases ! {sm2}

Still, a promise of returning Romans to look forward to !

Quite curious as to what the future vehicle to be announced will be, so look forward to that !

Steve

Well Steve I can promise you that you will not be disappointed with what is coming for the Persians, unless I jinx it, something never done before in 1/30 scale!

 

[villagehorse]

Dam, hardly anything I do not want. It would be good to see a photo showing the diorama boards placed together. Like where you are heading with the Boer war, I think you are on to something TG. Not fair, you are hitting my achilles heel in Romans and Egyptians also. Robin.

 

[wayne556517]

Aussies and Germans for me.