"Savage little campaign at end of WW2" Topic
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Legbiter | 06 May 2015 3:00 p.m. PST |
Things that creep up on one …. Sgts Mess do a cheap and LOVELY range of 1/72 [20mm] waterline coastal craft PERFECT for a little-known but savage coda to the European Naval War 1939-45. For the last 5 months of that war the tiny two-man terror Type XXVII U-boat aka "Seehund" was unleashed on the channel and North Sea coasts by the Kriegsmarine [some may also have served in the Mediterranean]. Inspired by the British X-craft vessels that damaged the Tirpitz, these little submersibles were undetectable for all intents and purposes, and caused a LOT of trouble. It's true many were sunk, but almost all by the weather, in one single disastrous sortie on Hogmanay, 1944. To paraphrase the OC Portsmouth of the time, luckily they arrived too late to do any REAL damage. Cleverly and thematically, Sgts Mess have hidden the Seehund model so you can't find it. I'm going to give the game away by telling you it's under "German Vehicles" as opposed to "Ships", where any company interested in Mere Money would have put it. Sgts Mess also do a Tramp aka Coastal Steamer in the same scale, and a Pinnace/picket boat that will do for an escort. All except the U-boat come with free crew, and all of your 1/72 pre-painted Oxford Aircraft are grist for this mill. Yes, even the Avro Anson – at least one was destroyed by German Air attack in Belgium on New Year's Day, 1945. The last missions of the Type XXVII were on the 28th April and 2 May 1945, when they resupplied the isolated German Garrison at Dunkirk. On that occasion they carried "butter-torpedoes", which in German is probably, and characteristically-wittily, "Fett-aalen" ["Fat Eels"]. The reason the British think the Germans have no sense of Humour is that the British are Stupid and don't speak German. Goering's "When I hear the Word Culture, I reach for my Browning" is actually one of the best bon-mots of the 20th Century, IMO. To say nothing of Kaiser Wilhelm's "Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha". |
GarrisonMiniatures | 06 May 2015 3:43 p.m. PST |
There are some very useful looking items in this range. |
chicklewis | 06 May 2015 3:55 p.m. PST |
Lovely little kit, and GREAT VALUE !! Order multiples before Sgt's Mess realizes it and doubles the price ! |
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