Things id like to see in 2016

[stenna00]

I would love to see the 15cm sig33 Auf fahrgestell Pz II. 12 were built and used in North Africa. Also sdkfz 132, panzer selbstfahrlafette 1 fur 7.62cm pak 36(r) auf pz II ausf D. 201 produced in 1942/43. Odd looking but great.

[Cav Dog]

I'd like to start building some forces for the Korean War. I think the U.S. Forces are pretty well covered with existing models with the exception of recoilless rifles. The U.S. Models can also serve as proxies for many of the UN armies although I'm not so sure about Commonwealth forces.

On the other side I think tanks, artillery and Migs are available but I can't think of a good substitute for North Korean or Chinese infantry of that period.

And for winter warfare none of the infantry figures are available.

So...

Korean War UN Heavy Weapons - 75mm recoilless rifles with crews, 81mm mortars with crews, M 1919 MGs with crews, 3.5" super bazookas to start

Repeat in cold weather kit, overcoats, parkas, Mickey Mouse boots, trapper hats.

Redo the U.S. Infantry with more carbines and add walkie talkies, then repeat in winter kit.

For the Chinese and North Korean infantry, lots of burb guns and bugles could be added to the Russian infantry although I haven't seen any pictures of them wearing helmets so soft caps maybe? And for winter quilted uniforms and trapper hats as well.

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[SFCDODGE65]

Micro Force 10mm Napoleonic requests:
-Guard Units for all major nations
-Casualty figures for all
-Supply wagons

Building requests:
-10mm buildings from that era

Does anybody else play 10mm Napoleonics? It seems this line just died out. They are so much better looking than 6mm, 15mm, or any other 10mm line out there.

[JasonAfrika]

World War 2 Japanese: New Infantry, artillery, armored cars, new tanks so we can do Manchuria, Nomonhan, etc.

[pibber]

Hi all !
Fiew ideas for the 2015-16 list :
US WWII :
- DC3 "Dakota" (with rear door in open or close position) (transport plane, paratroopers bus ! Gunship conversion Vietnam possible, cargo plane used everywhere !)
- US "Caterpillar" engineer Dozer D-7 and his 20t semi-trailer (prime mover could be GHQ Diamond 6x6 Hv truck or GHQ Treadway Corbitt 6t truck), very common in engineer units.
- 90mm M2 Antiaircraft guns (fire & tracted positions, with 6t truck corbitt without tarpaulin, as prime mover)
- LVT4, Pacific war version (with 2 armored shields and their HMG. Perfect for Iwo Jima landing for example. A waterline version would be great too !).
- LVT(A)4 waterline.
- LVT(A)1 waterline.
- Ammo trailer pack, for M8 howitzer and for M4 Sherman 105mm.
- Re-do M1 155mm Howitzer in fire and towing positions.

GERMAN WWII :
- New 3t Opel Blitz with open cargo late war hull (rear cargo without tarpaulin) & with one 4X4 into the pack (very important to do another pack of this truck because actual O.Blitz is not very exciting : no possibility to carrying individual or seated infantry, no possibility to carrying light AA weapons or showing supply carrying inside like ZIS or Gaz russians trucks)
- Opel Blitz bus (perfect for HQ and sanitat units)
- SdKfz 251/3 & 11 ausf "D" pack (for HQ platoon in every late war Pz.Gr. company/battalion)
- Sdkfz 251/5 or 7 (assault engineer) ausf « D ».
- Sdkfz 251/16 (flamme-thrower) ausf « D ».
- SdKfz 251/17 20mm AA Gun « D » late (with small armored turret).
- Tiger « ferdinand » (for Kursk)
- Me.323 "Gigant" (Hv transport glider for eastern front) and HE-111 « zwilling » in a combat command. (2 « gigant » and one « Zwilling » for example)
- Heavy engineers bridge « brucko » with Sdkfz 7 8t halftracks and heavy trailors. (combat command)
- German trailers (Fieldkitchen, GS 2.5 ton, Generator, Searchlight on trailer : very good idea « Kampfgrupe » !)

RUSSIAN WWII :
- M 1937 type, 152mm long artillery gun (tracted and deployed version) with prime mover. (russian “must haveâ€￾ gun)
- Heavy artillery prime mover “Kominternâ€￾ or “Voroshilovezâ€￾. (to go with 203’s howitzers or 152’s guns).
- T-34 ARV (without turret and only with few accessories on the hull : cables, small spare parts, spare wheel, …)
- Winter artillery crew.

ENGLISH WWII :
- LVT4 "water buffalo" with MG & 20mm Posten gun. (for Rhin and rivers crossing in Belgium & Nederland campaign)
- Hamilcar heavy Glider (for heavy air landing with Horsa gliders)
- Diamond T 980 (M 20) & M9 trailer Rodger 45 ton.
- Churchill Tank assault bridge « Small Box Girder ».
- "Bailey bridge", engineer bridge (use everywhere with US & GB forces during WWII)
- Engineer Dozer (armored).
- Staff car.
- 15cwt Austin ambulance truck
- Chevrolet radio/workshop shelter 4x4 truck
- 15cwt Morris water tank truck.
- British Sherman ARV.
- Airbourne UK Jeep and airborne trailor.
- LCA (assaut boat, same role as LCVP)

VARIOUS WWII
- French/german civilians.
- Four generic civilian horse drawn wagon in a pack (suitable for all europeans nations)
- individual german Volksturm (in civilian suit with hats, one or two bicycles in the pack, rifles and few panzerfaust in hands).
- japanese civilians (maybe identical to vietnamese civilians pack but with no hats on heads).
- Russians individual civilians.
- Engineer Combat Teams infantry for US, UK, G and R.

COLD WAR 50s, 60's, 70's and 80s :
- US Dodge 4x4 M37.
- US M35 medium truck 6x6 without tarpaulin. (for vietnam and cold war in Europe)
- US 5ton 6x6 Heavy truck Vietnam (without tarpaulin, great for US convoys w/gun trucks during Vietnam war)
- US Cobra helo, (the right model for vietnam war)
- US light helo « Sioux ».
- US « Chinook », vietnam version.
- US Helo CH-54 Sikorsky « Skycrane ».
- Vietminh infantry (same as actual GHQ's vietcong but remplace AK-47 by another weapon and less hats on heads)
- North Korean infantry.
- French & german infantry 1980-90 (for cold war in europe)
- US AC130 transport cargo plane for Vietnam aera (full gunship ideas too...)
- Vietnamese civilians pack #2 : with bicycles, motos, tricycle "ice cream" mobile shop, bicycles with cargo loading, one buffalo drawn wagon,....)
- LVTE1 (engineer version of LVTP-5)
- LVTR1A1 (recovery version of LVTP-5)
- US Ford Mutt with Tarpaulin and trailers. (multi mission vehicule : Vietnam and after…)
- US M102 105mm Howitzer (vietnam fire support bases and riverine arty barges)
- civilians europeans (for cold war in Europe or war in Balkans 90/91’, ...)
- T-34/85 for Korean or Vietnam area (differents wheels and fenders comparate to WWII version)
- Russian light truck GAZ-63 4x4 (without tarpaulin on the rear hull).
- Russian heavy artillery prime mover tractor ATS.
- Russians engineer amphib’ pontoons...

Like « whoa Mohamed »
I would still love to see :
- M274 mechanical mule
- Inf in bush hats with M16, FN, AK47, SKS
- CTA 15 with out Tarp with 7.62 1919a1 for Ruf/Puf Mechanised rifle squadrons ARVN.
- OV2 skymaster
- Bell 47 or similar early OH
- Vietnam US era Artillery crews with and with out shirts
- T28 trojan ground attack aircraft (prop) with ordinace
- MSB riverine Mine sweeper craft
- VC Sappers in boonie and bare headed in shorts and long pants with Satchel and chinease claymores , Bangalore torpedoes, and assualt ladders.
- Dog Teams,
- City Civilians, Civilian vehicles specific to Vietnam.
- ARVN INF and weapons packs with M1/M2 carbine, BAR, 30 cal teams, 57mm RR and 60mm Mortars.

Accessories packs :
- individual drum cans (for fuel depot) (WWII)
- furnitures & ammo boxes. (for depot) (WWII & modern « cold war »)
- PSP plates on large sheet styrene or resin (on every military airfields or bases during WWII, Korean, Vietnam wars...)
- German WWII houses and farms.


My « TOP 10 » WWII 2015-16 list :

- DC3 "Dakota" (with rear door in open or close position) (transport plane, paratroopers bus ! used everywhere !)
- US "Caterpillar" engineer Dozer, with 20t semi-trailer and prime mover Hv truck.
- New 3t Opel Blitz with open cargo hull, (rear cargo without tarpaulin) & with one 4X4 into the pack.
- British Sherman ARV.
- M 1937 type, 152mm long artillery gun, (tracted and deployed version) with prime mover.
- Heavy artillery prime mover “Kominternâ€￾ or “Voroshilovezâ€￾.
- LVT4 "water buffalo", with MG & 20mm Posten gun.
- British Staff car.
- 15cwt Austin ambulance truck
- Chevrolet UK radio/workshop shelter 4x4 truck

My « TOP 6 » Vietnam 2015-16 list :
- US 5ton 6x6 Heavy truck (special Vietnam aera : without tarpaulin (cab and rear) ).
- US M102 105mm Howitzer (for vietnam fire support bases and riverine arty barges)
- Russian light truck GAZ-63 4x4. (Ho Chi Minh trail and NVA during 70's vietnam offensives)
- NVA individual infantry « assault sappers ».
- US « Chinook », vietnam version.
- US Ford Mutt with Tarpaulin.

[pibber]

LCA : yes, yes yes !

[Waddell]

Engineer figures. All nations, multiple poses with minesweepers, probing for mines, detonators, etc. Even if there were just a few that could be mixed with the normal infantry.

[Donald M. Scheef]

I recognize that pibber's request for an LCA is in the Microarmor range, but how about a 1/2400 Micronauts pack of British landing craft:
- about a dozen LCAs [over 2000 built]
- perhaps five or six LCT(4) [about 850 built, slightly different from the US-built LCTs]
- about 4 LCP(L) [the British built 600]
- one or two each of LCS(M), LCG(M), and LCT(1) [about 100 of each built]

Don S.

[pibber]

Yes, yes, very agree with you "Donald M. Scheef", it would be great to have all the boats you mention in 1/2400 scale :
playing amphib assault landing is always interesting and it's always a great visual effect too to see the full armada slowly approching the beaches


(Normandy landing)

[Noble713]

Might be a little premature, but I'd love to see the whole line of new Russian Armata vehicles:

T-14 MBT
Kurganets-25 IFV
2S35 Koalitsiya-SV
Boomerang wheeled IFV

[paul]

I'm with Noble I would like to see the new Russian vehicles.

[TAMMY]

The mpst numerous was the F-104G. More than 1200 built by Lockheed and under licence by Canadair, FIAT and various German maufacturer.

CF-104 was a previous Canadian version of the F-104.

[thetourist]

I'd like to see:

Mi-28 Havoc
Su-24 Fencer
T-14 Armata
mi-26 Halo

Modern and WW2 Civilian Cars

M60A2

North Korean Kit

[cehelgi]

i'd like to see :

- Other Vehicles of 21 Pz Div. Normandy 44 : half-tracks on french chassis and self propelled guns
- French trucks and cars
- Russian 85 mm AA Gun with heavy tractor
- Bogward B IV and Goliath
- Bren carrier variants (MG, Wasp ...)
- Churchill variants
- Crusader AA Mk I

Thanks