This month's 28mm metal releases include the first batch of French Foreign Legion. These ones are wearing the white kepi, the next will be wearing steel helmets. Other than their French webbing/pouches and weapons, they sport British clothing as worn in Libya and up to the end of the Western Desert campaign in Tunisia, when they were resupplied by the U.S.
Also available are two new metal codes of Afrikakorps. They are all wearing long trousers gathered/strapped at the ankle, so could be used in other theaters, and later in the war. For the British, there is one new code (as suggested by a customer) of a Highland Regiment piper with a batch of Tam 'o' Shanters, designed to fit on the plastic Desert Rats. Although, like the FFL kepi, the Tam 'o' Shanters were unlikely to be worn in combat, but it certainly adds character and difference to a unit on the tabletop!
We also have two new resin models from Blitzkrieg: the SdKfk 251 and the impressive Italian self-propelled gun, the Semovente 90/53. Not many of the later were built, but all served in the Western Desert and Sicily.
French WWII
FWW1 - Command (includes officer, NCOs, and rifle grenade launcher) - £7.00 GBP
FWW2 - Light Machine guns (includes 2x LMGs, NCO and rifle grenade launcher) - £7.00 GBP
FWW3 - Legionnaries skirmishing with rifles - £7.00 GBP
FWW4 - Legionnaries advancing with rifles - £7.00 GBP
German WWII
GWW18 - Light Machine guns (2x MG34s and NCOs) - £7.00 GBP
GWW19 - Skirmishing infantry with rifles - £7.00 GBP
British WWII
WW20 - Scottish piper and Tam 'o' Shanters - £7.00 GBP
Blitzkrieg Miniatures
BM31 - SdKfz 251 Ausf C - £18.50 GBP
BM32 - Semovente da 90/53 - £20.50 GBP
