What personalities would you like to see?. (1 Viewer)

[Rob]

With the recent release of figures like General Slim and Hugh Dowding I was wondering what other WW2 personality figures you'd like to see?.

I'd like to see Brian Horrocks,Churchill Stalin and Roosevelt at Yalta,Audie Murphy at the Bulge.(although copyright on that one may be difficult)

Rob

 

[_FLYNN_86]

Id like them to do a limited line of VC winners and MOH winners, like club specials. Few id like to see:

Major General Orde Wingate DSO ( formed the chindits)
Tul Bahadur Pun VC ( Gurkha Chindit)
Major Robert Henry Cain VC (1st airborne at arnhem)

 

[Rob]

Id like them to do a limited line of VC winners and MOH winners, like club specials. Few id like to see:

Major General Orde Wingate DSO ( formed the chindits)
Tul Bahadur Pun VC ( Gurkha Chindit)
Major Robert Henry Cain VC (1st airborne at arnhem)

Great choice of Robert Cain at Arnhem,real hero,Jeremy Clarksons father-in-law I understand.

Rob

 

[_FLYNN_86]

I saw the programme Jeremy Clarkson presented on vc winners and it wasnt until they researched the programme that he found out about his father inlaws history.

 

[Lewey Gun Vick]

I've started collecting the Battle of the Bulge recently, and if I may add different Men of Easy Company, preferably Winters, Lipton, Compton, Powers and Spiers for Battle of the Bulge. Doubt this will happen, but a
man can dream!

Regards,

Vick

 

[Rob]

I saw the programme Jeremy Clarkson presented on vc winners and it wasnt until they researched the programme that he found out about his father inlaws history.

Yes I saw that too,he single handedly knocked out two German Tanks,was everywhere attacking the Germans and encouraging others to do likewise despite serious injury.

Rob

 

[The Irishman]

Johnny Frost for Arnhem - hoping they have him in the next set of releases

 

[theBaron]

...Churchill Stalin and Roosevelt at Yalta...

There was at least one Russian maker who made just that subject, and maybe more than one. I think recently (within the past 2 years), one of the conoisseur studios issued such figures, but I'm thinking back to around 2000, when I used to get catalogs of items made in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere in Eastern Europe (East German and Red Army surplus, for example, lacquerware, Red Army watches). A couple of them had figures painted to a decent toy soldier standard, matte, some of which were probably Niena (Napoleonics). But I remember distinctly the Yalta trio. There may still be a Russian maker who has the figures in his catalog.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Evzone]

Winston Churchill with a tommy gun and a cigar

 

[Evzone]

With the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain looming, how about Irish born Spitfire ace Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane and his shamrock emblazoned Spitfire.


http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/raaf/images/fighter/uk2058_500.jpg


For Paddy Finucane

Lord of the spacious kingdoms of the air,
Thine to twist, to spin, to dive and know
The winds of Heaven laughing in thy hair,
The slow Earth sleeping patiently below,
Thine to be the swordsman of the blood-lit skies,
A source of courage to thy comrades’ flight;
That thou too now adorneth Paradise
Makes far more beautiful the bedlam night.

He was too young to die, and yet who dares
His spirit’s resurrection to deny?
He still with every fighter pilot shares
The roar of clawing battle birds on high,
And then returns to proud and lovely lairs-
A shadow in the shadows of the sky.

Michael Cullwick, London, 1943

 

[wayne556517]

John Joseph Curtin (8 January 1885 – 5 July 1945), Australian politician and 14th Prime Minister of Australia, led Australia when the Australian mainland came under direct military threat during the Japanese advance in World War II. He is widely regarded as one of the country's greatest Prime Ministers.[1] General Douglas MacArthur said that Curtin was "one of the greatest of the wartime statesmen".[2] His Prime Ministerial predecessor, Arthur Fadden of the Country Party wrote: "I do not care who knows it but in my opinion there was no greater figure in Australian public life in my lifetime than Curtin.
An Australian would be nice we did fight in the War aswell.

 

[wayne556517]

Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett CB CBE DSO RAF (14 September 1910 – 15 September 1986) was an Australian aviation pioneer and bomber pilot who rose to be the youngest Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force. He led the "Pathfinder Force" (No. 8 Group RAF) from 1942 to the end of the Second World War in 1945. He has been described as "one of the most brilliant technical airmen of his generation: an outstanding pilot, a superb navigator who was also capable of stripping a wireless set or overhauling an engine"
(Thanks to Wikipedia.........)

 

[SGT Rock]

My votes in order of preference include 1) Eisenhower, 2) Roosevelt, 3) Patton, 4) Dick Winters and 5) Stalin.

 

[Rob]

I'd like to see one of our greatest Admirals,Andrew Cunningham.In charge of the Mediterranean fleet he was responsible for many victories and campaigns,truly an officer worth commemerating in a figure.

Rob

 

[Simpson & his donkey.]

I would like to see some rock stars.Jim Morrison Sidney Vicious Bon Scott .The dead and buried crazy guys who made history in music.Just a idea.Simmo.

 

[Major Major]

I think after Paddy Mayne and David Stirling, we should see Jock Lewes!

 

[lcdr1635]

1. MAJ John Howard
2. 1LT Audie Murphy
3. COL Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller
4. LCOL Creighton Abrams
5. BG Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (He and his father are one of two father/son Medal of Honor winning pairs -- the other being Arthur and Douglas MacArthur)
6. A more accurate re-do of Lord Lovat and Bill Millin
7. GSGT John Basilone (the only enlisted Marine to win both the Medal of Honor and Navy Cross)

 

[ebayartie]

I've started collecting the Battle of the Bulge recently, and if I may add different Men of Easy Company, preferably Winters, Lipton, Compton, Powers and Spiers for Battle of the Bulge. Doubt this will happen, but a
man can dream!

Regards,

Vick

Can you imagine what it would be like for K&C to make these figures and also make foxholes suitable for 2-3 figures. Now if that doesn't make you want to make a winter diorama, nothing will

 

[lancer]

How about a group of WW1 flying aces?
Manfred von Richthofen
Lothar von Richthofen
Oswald Boelcke
Paul Baumer
Ernest Udet

James McCudden
William Bishop
Lanoe Hawker
Albert Ball
Edward Mannock

Georges Guynemer
Rene Fonck
Charles Nungesser
Rene Dorme
Alfred Heurtaux

Edward Rickenbacker
Frank Luke
Raoul Lufbery
William Thaw
Eliott White Springs

Godwin Brumowski
Frank Linke-Crawford
Josef Kiss
Julius Arigi
Gottfried von Banfield

and about 100 others...

 

[Rob]

Hurricane Ace Bob Stanford Tuck

Rob