 John the OFM  | 30 Mar 2009 6:26 p.m. PST |
We had a fun game of Fallschirmjaegers dropping on top of snoozing Americans in Tunisia yesterday. By the terms of the scenario, the Yanks had to un-pin (wake up) to join in the fray. One platoon never did wake up for the 6 turns of the game… We blame Jim's dice, not mine. 
Also unfortunately, I had to drag out my 1/144 Bettys and Sallys as proxies for the gliders. This was a true Axis operation, with German and Italian paratroopers flying in on Japanese planes…
The end result was that my Lees failed morale on their final assault to reach the objective, falling short by 4", and then had to retreat.
A good time was had by all, but perhaps TOO good. Now, we need gliders, specifically the German DFS230 glider. (Maybe later, some for the Yanks…)
Somehow, using Bettys and Sallys … offended … our high standards. So, who makes them in either 15mm, N-Gauge, or 1/144, or "close" scale? Resin or metal would be OK. So would multi-media, or even plans for balsa models. Cheap is good, we need maybe 6. Or more. |
| John the OFM | 30 Mar 2009 6:35 p.m. PST |
Idunno…
Gliders don't have wheels or tracks. |
| Rhino Co | 30 Mar 2009 6:37 p.m. PST |
I found some and posted on the following link.
Cheers!
TMP link |
miscmini  | 30 Mar 2009 6:39 p.m. PST |
Armament in Miniatures does make the DSF 230 w/ & w/o the gunner (1/100 scale). link Kevin |
| John the OFM | 30 Mar 2009 7:58 p.m. PST |
BTW, I hadn't seen the Bailey Bridge/Glider thread started earlier. |
 Schulein | 30 Mar 2009 9:19 p.m. PST |
The AIM glider is very good, Old Glory also makes one in 1:100 now in their Lil'Flying Fokkers range:
link |
| Pictors Studio | 30 Mar 2009 9:31 p.m. PST |
I really can't recommend the AIM ones highly enough. They are great models. |
| Wyatt the Odd | 30 Mar 2009 10:12 p.m. PST |
The only other option to the AIM gliders would be the old Roskopf models – also in 1/100 (15mm). However, I believe that the AIM models can be had at a better price. Wyatt |
| IainJL | 31 Mar 2009 1:26 a.m. PST |
I think you can still download the card/paper model from the battlefornt web-site (the one that was in the back of the original fallschirmjager army lists). If you can't find it I think I have a downloaded version somewhere. |
| Patrick R | 31 Mar 2009 3:31 a.m. PST |
Roskopf used to make a 1:100 scale DFS230. You can find a set on Ebay once in a while. |
| John the OFM | 31 Mar 2009 7:03 a.m. PST |
IainJL, can you email it to me?
john_the_OFM at msn fot com thanks |
| 7th Va Cavalry | 31 Mar 2009 7:32 a.m. PST |
John,
Try this one, much more cost effective. link |
| Binhan Lin | 26 May 2009 1:55 p.m. PST |
Fiddler's Green also does Horsas and Waco's: picture the original scale is 1:60, but you can re-scale them to just about any size – the picture has 1:144, 1:100, 15mm, 25mm and 28mm Wacos. Prepainted and can be assembled in less than a hour. -Binhan |
