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On the grounds that GHQ must be thinking about their 2011-2012 list ready for February, here's my wishlist. I only got 1/10 last year so let's see if I can beat that score this year!

1. UK WWII Engineers - laying mines/detecting/probing for mines, generic building poses, demolition etc
2. UK Churchill Engineer Pack - Mine Plough A, Bobbin & Fascine
3. UK Churchill Crocodile
4. UK Austin K2 Ambulance
5. UK Bedford 15cwt bowser & signals body pack
6. UK Austin 5cwt or 8cwt utility
7. Russian Voroshilovets/Komintern fulltrack artillery tractors (2+3)
8. Russian 152mm ML-20
9. Russian 122mm A19
10. UK Bailey Bridge + Extensions (perhaps two packs - one with ends, a centre piece and pontoons and a second with extra centre pieces & pontoons)

I reckon at least the Crocodile and Bailey Bridge will come up next year and the engineers stands a good chance.

What does everyone else want?

Here'e mine. I am going straight WW2. No what ifs in 1947.

1) US M-32 Armored Recovery Vehicle
2) US M-1 90MM AA GUN with TRACTOR
3) US Stimson or Piper L-4 Observation Airplane
4) German Staff Cars (Mercedes)
5) US Chevy Sedan
6) US Combat Engineers and equipment (dozer, crane, Diamond T transporter)
7) Grumman F6F Hellcat
Grumman F4F Wildcat
9) Vought F4U Corsair (have the option for the 4 and 3 bladed props)
10) Messerschmitt ME 110
11) Nakijima "VAL" Dive Bomber
12) Douglas A-20 Havoc

Individual WWII US Infantry and Hvy Weapons in winter kit. They can be used for anything from Bulge through W47 to Korea.

There are excellent F4U and F6F models available already from C in C. I don't see any advantage in asking a favourite manufacturer to double up on what is already available at very high quality. Ask for something we can't get!

Personally I'd rather see GHQ alter the way they package towed guns. For mine, 3 deployed and 3 towed guns is much better than 2/2/2 as they currently do, as the tractors are never the right ones. The brit 6pdr was mostly towed by universal carriers or lloyd carriers, not the 15cwt CMP. The US 57mm was towed by halftracks in armoured divisions, not 1 1/2 tonners. The 17pdr was towed by crusader tractors in corps level units only, otherwise M5 or M9's (can't remember which). Added to that, most gun troops had 3 or 6 guns, which would suit a 3/3 packaging much better. Germans included. We can choose our own tractors.

As to models, I'll restate
LVT4 with optional polsten gun,
SP 40mm on Morris chassis (almost all bofors were on this mount in the UK armoured divisions by late 1944),
lloyd carrier with canvas tilt.

Excellent suggestions so far. I'll second the comat engineers for the various nations. I'll try again for a generic pack of World War Two civilain vehicles. I would also really like to see the early war British Morris Armoured car for France and North Africa.
For the modern era, I will vote again for a generic set of modern civilian vehicles.
I will eventually think of more, but it's been a long day today.
Groundlber

SIG 33 B 150mm SPG for Stalingrad street fighting.

and I second the ME 110

piersyf wrote:The US 57mm was towed by halftracks in armoured divisions, not 1 1/2 tonners.

Yes, but it was towed by 1.5Ton trucks in the INFANTRY divisions. A US ArmDiv had 30 57mm ATG (9 in each ArmInfBn and three with the DivHQ). A US InfDiv had 57 57mm ATG (3 in each InfBn, 9 in each Regimental AT Company, and three with the DivHQ). Since there were also three times as many infantry divisions as armored divisions, it makes sense to use 1.5Toners as the prime movers.

My wishes:
1. Additional US infantry pack with M1917 and M1919 machineguns (with crew), 81mm mortars, and SCR300 radios.
2. US engineer pack, as above.
3. US 1944 infantry company combat command. I've asked for this before:

A rifle company with an attached HMG platoon (from the battalion weapons company). That would be ~230 figures, which would be ~4 GHQ infantry packs (plus a jeep pack), about right in price. The selling point would be that the correct weapons mix and comm equipment (with some SCR 300's, PLEASE!) would be included.
I'd buy several of those in a heartbeat. Buy three, toss the extra HMQ platoon and pick up a mortar platoon and you've got the lion's share of a battalion. (Or at 1:3, with a couple of 105mm Howitzers and trucks thrown in, a regiment.)

Those "excellent" F40 and F6F models are a pain in the #$% to put together and hold together as a gaming model. Their helicopters are the same way. When GHQ came out with the Apache in 97, those CinCs had to go . I could not stand to have to repair them every time I came close to touching them.
I would much rather have the GHQ WW2 aircraft.........detailed like a museum piece, but tough as a Tonka truck.

I'd love to see a model of the WW1 Königsberg class cruisers. It would be a nice addition to the Great War line of German ships.

For the next year I'd like to see:

-Bailey Bridge
-rubber boats with assaulting infantry (german and russian to start with)
-more WW2 'camp' accessories. I bought the small wall tents, and they're ok. But they're not enought to build a nice and realistic camp. I would see some fuel and ammo depots (a number of piled barrels and boxes would look fine for me), a nice radio antenna, a little radar, some search lights. Some bigger wall tents (I think these are being prepared now, otherwise why we already have the small tents?), wich would look good as field hospitals and soldiers barracks.

For me is enought, now I'm painting stuff for the north african and early western campaigns, so I've still plenty of old miniatures to buy.

In a sense, I'm glad to have started this hobby almost 40 years after the foundation of GHQ, today's catalogue is so huge.

bye!

Not a WW2 item, but I would like to see some blisters of spanish civil war infantry.
For the vehicles the normal WW2 range already cover the majority of the needs.

Hi all Very Happy

Very good ideas in first two post of this thread....

My list for WWII period :
US :
- M32 ARV (one in every US armored tank company)
- DC3 "Dakota" (transport plane WWII and gunship vietnam)
- Hight speed tractor 18t M4 (for 155mm "Long Tom" & 203mm (8 inch) heavy gun)
- Broackway B666, 6 ton bridge truck (GMC compressor would never be alone !)
- M6 SP 37mm AT (Dodge 4X4 with 37mm AT gun) (for engineer units too !)
- M8 & M7 howitzer ammo cargo trailer.
- AA US 90mm gun & heavy truck prime mover 6ton White 666.

GERMAN :
- Pz III with side skirt (ausf "L" & "N")
- Another Opel Blitz (without tarpaulin & with one 4X4 into the pack. for infantry carrier)
- Renault truck AHS gazogene.
- SdKfz 251/17 "D" (without side armored plates ; seen in Pz.Gr. Btn last months of war)
- Mobelwagen (Pz IV with 37mm Flak)
- SdKfz 251/3 & 11 "D" (for HQ platoon in every 1944-45 Pz.Gr. company)
- Me.323 "Gigant" (Hv transport for eastern front !)
- Staff cars & OpelBlitz bus (for german HQ).

RUSSIAN :
- M 1937 type, 152mm long gun with prime mover.
- Katiousha BM-13 on ZIS truck.

ENGLISH :
- LVT4 "water buffalo" with MG & Posten gun. (for Rhin and rivers crossing in Belgium & nederland campaign)
- Hamilcar hv Glider (for hv air landing with Horsa gliders)
- Diamond TM 20 & M9 trailer Rodger 45 ton
- Churchill Small Box Girder (assaut bridge)
- "Bailey bridge", engineer bridge (use everywhere with US & GB forces during WWII)
- LCA, landing craft infantry (for WWII and Indochine war 1945-54)

MODERN LIST :
- US M35 medium truck without tarpaulin. (for vietnam ; infantry carrier)
- US Cobra helo, (the right model for vietnam war)
- Vietminh infantry (same as actual GHQ's vietcong but remplace AK-47 by another weapon and less hats on heads)
- French & german infantry 1980-90 (for cold war in europe)
- US C130, transport. (for vietnam and other...)
- US "Chinook", vietnam version.
- Vietnamese civilians pack #2 : with bicycles, triporteur "ice cream", bicycles with cargo loading, one buffalo drawn wagon,....)


Last :
Accessories packs :
- drum can (for fuel depot) (WWII & post war)
- furnitures & ammo boxes. (for depot) (WWII, post war & modern)
- infantry ride on tank (russians first and then, german and US infantry) (WWII)
- telegraph pole (WWII and different form of CinC model)
- light urban pole (one pack WWII & one pack modern)
- Small military airfield building (air control tower) (use for vietnam war)
- PSP plates (on every military airfield or bases during WWII, vietnam, Gulf war, etc...)
- coblestone road sections ! (WWII) (differents forms)


My dream Very Happy
New line : WWI ! German and french/US/GB first. The line will contain infantry, MG, tanks, artillery, mortars, Marne's taxi, and.... full barbewire !).

New line #2 : Trains : civilians train, cargo civilian trains, German BP 42 & 44, russian armored train too, german hv Railgun,....
The line would contain too : railway station, rails (differents forms), railway buildings .... to
complete GHQ scenery "terrain maker" specialy for trains.

New line #3 : Bunker Shocked !
The line will contain principaly differents models of many originals "Regelbau", german standart bunkers during WWII. (for atlantic wall, Siegfried line& Oder/Neisse line on the eastern front) . Maybe we could find in this line "Dragoon teeth", anti-tank wall, pillbox,
arty emplacement, ....
Very Happy

Personally, I'd like to see the russian BM-31 heavy rocket artillery unit on a truck (like the classic BM-13.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BM-31 ... opol_4.jpg

This is a pretty common piece of hardware, and as a bonus it serves a LOT of use in the middle east, easily as far as the '60s and probably in service at least till the '80s.

Wow some great suggestions so far!

Three requests from me

1. NO more late war german stuff!!*
2. Morris CS9 armoured car for early war and any other BEF vehicles!
3. More trucks and softskins.

*GHQ have lots of other incomplete WW2 ranges yet they release every obscure German vehicle ever made (or not in some cases)

Cheers
Kieran