WW2 Allied Wish list 2012-13

whoa Mohamed · Post by **whoa Mohamed** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:16 am

We already have a new modern wish list , so i thought id start a new WW2 ALLIED list.

Humber Light reconisance Car
Morris wheeled airbourne tractor
Airbourne jeeps and trailers: recce, arty and AT tow, Modified Ambulance versions.
20mm Polstien AA on ground mount
Carrier MMG (with mounted Vickers)
Infantry Heavy weapons 3 inch mortars ,Vickers MMG, Piat .
All Prone or all Kneeling rifleman to go with prone Bren gun teams.
Fuel Tankers.
AFV half figure and full figure crews in pixie suits for NWE AFV crews
Crew micl in BERET for afv crew
WW2 civilians
WW2 civilian vehicles.
Baricades sculpted with trams and 55 gal drums and tires etc
Loads for trucks feul etc that can just be droped in the back of open topped trucks of left as is on the Battlefield to indicate supply and fuel dumps.
American GIs in winter over coats ala the Battle of the BULGE...
UK infantry in winter gear ...Mikey

RedLeif · Post by **RedLeif** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:09 pm

Soviet Union:
#1 ML 20 - 152mm howitzer: The ICON of Soviet heavy artillery pieces with over 6000 built and no other mfr. makes one to my knowledge.

#2 PPSH SMG individual infantry essential late war assault and desant troops

STZ5 - high speed med tractor. It looks a lot like the flat nosed RSO with different road wheels : several thousand produced.

Voroshilovetz - old hvy tractor, not many built but cool looking

a 76mm armed welded hull "Emcha" combat command of 21 tanks, lend lease provided M4A2's but I think the US96 (M4A3) sherman would work fine.

French/Polish/Finnish/Russian/Belgian/Italian/German/Spanish/Greek/ Yugoslav, etc:
#3 Canon de 155 model 1917 - Scheider 155L14 howitzer obviously used by MANY countries

France:
see #3 above and -

Citroen type 32 med truck.- the AHS is nice but entered service in '41

Canon de 155 Grande Puissance Filloux (GPF) mle.1917- french 155L38 gun

Japan:
Type 38 75mm Field Gun - 2000 built

Type 38 15cm Howitzer - designed by Krupp, used from wwI through wwII some used by Finnland too, or

Type 96 15cm Howitzer - 400 built

Finnish/UK:
BT-42 - not many made but one of the few unique Finnish weapons of the war

4.5" (114mm) Howitzer

I know this list is rather artillery-centric, however; there are very few other military models (besides trucks), that I consistently find myself looking for on other manufacturer's websites. I've seen lists by others that I greatly respect but these are the main models I'd like in the GHQ catalog.

RedLeif

whoa Mohamed · Post by **whoa Mohamed** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:31 am

Canadian CT15 TA with out the canvass top and cover..
LLyod Carrier
Stag hound "Charger command vehicle "
Stag Hound AA vehicle

Oberst · Post by **Oberst** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:18 am

I would like to see:

US:
M3 Satan

Brits:
Govenantor (A13 Mk III)
Centaur Mk III

Romanian:
Tacam R2
Tacam T60
Vanarorul De Care R35
Skoda 100 mm Howitzer (Czech made 100mmL25 vz30)
105mm Howitzer (Czech made 105mmL42 vz35)

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:32 am

Oberst wrote: Romanian:
Tacam R2
Tacam T60
Vanarorul De Care R35
Skoda 100 mm Howitzer (Czech made 100mmL25 vz30)
105mm Howitzer (Czech made 105mmL42 vz35)

Interesting suggestions.

I too would love to keep expanding my Romanian force.

I'd be a buyer for either of the Tacams or for some Vanatorul de care R35s. This last one in particular might be an easy step for GHQ. It would require a new turret, but it would use the same hull as the existing French R35 tank.

I would also add a request for the Resita M43 75mm AT gun. Any Romanian WW2 force is going to be very "tank poor". At least we could give them some AT guns.

So far my Romanians have to rely the GHQ 37mm Bofors gun or the 47mm Bohlers, both of which were already obsolete in 1941.

Quite a selection, but I am still always under-gunned early war. Maybe I can handle some T-26s, but woe is me when the T-34s show up.

I've also managed to acquire some Pak 97/38s from the other guys to bolster my punching power mid-war. That is almost a solution to T-34s, but again I am in grief if anything larger shows up (even an SU, much less an JS). And what happens when I turn on my former allies, and try to shoot up some Panthers or Tigers???

I should really have at least a few M43s to give me some 1944/45 punch. The only maker is one of the Brit vendors, and their model is not really usable to my eyes.

And while we're at it, how about an actual Schneider 47mm AT gun to fill in the listing that is currently in the catalog, but which has the wrong gun (an APX 47mm gun, not a Schneider).

>Skoda 100 mm Howitzer (Czech made 100mmL25 vz30)

This one I can solve for you.

Voila. I have a battery of Skoda 100mm M1916/19 howitzers in my Romanian force! You can, too.

It is on the Italian list as IT20:

Same gun. The Italians took them from Austria as war booty after WW1, and continued buying them in the inter-war period. You may wind up with some un-wanted Italian trucks but hey, you can get your guns. Happy new year!

TAMMY · Post by **TAMMY** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 6:25 am

The IT20 is actually a "obice da 100/17-14" with the wheels replaced for mechanized tow. It is visually identical to the vz30 but has a shorter barrel.

The model "16" was the mountain version and had a straight shield. Moreover it was lighter and had to be disassembled in three loads on small animal towed carts for transportation.

The L25 had a longer barrel (it is longer than the cradle) and entered in service in Italy in 1941 when the Germans delivered a lot of them,. partly ex-Polish and partly ex-German. It was called "obice da 100/22" and existed both in mod 14 amd 16.

Note thjat the Itlaian considered only the length of the rifled part of the barrel while Skoda considered its whole length, so the L25 was considered a L22.

The guns used the same ammunition so there were no problem using the various types,

BTW Italians never bought the Skoda as they got about 3.000 of them (both models) at the end of WWI, eEnough to last till WWII and later.

pibber · Post by **pibber** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:47 am

Hi all

!

For me it would be :
US WWII :
- M32 ARV (one in every US armored tank company)
- DC3 "Dakota" with landing wheels (WWII cargo transport plane ; paratroopersâ€™s taxi ; gunship in Vietnam)
- Hight speed tractor 18t M4 (for 155mm "Long Tom" & 203mm (8 inch) GHQâ€™s heavy guns)
- Broackway B666, 6 ton bridge truck (GMC compressor would never be alone !)
- M6 SP 37mm AT (Dodge 4X4 with 37mm AT gun seen in engineer platoons)
- M8 & M7 howitzer ammo cargo trailer.
- US heavy weapon pack (hmg, mmg, Mortar 60mm, Mortar 81mm, Flamme-thrower)
- US infantry in coats (inf & heav weapons packs) for WWII winter and Korea aera.
- US 90mm AA gun (tracted and deployed and prime mover could be Ward La france heavy truck !)
- Truck tractor with engineer ponton trailer.
- Truck 4ton, towing trailer with tractor bulldozer (engineer)
- GMC 2-1/2 6x6 without tarpaulin (One with HMG roof ring stand, like actual GHQ "US 37")
- Dodge 4x4 "Beep" 3/4 ton weapon carrier, without tarpaulin.
- LCT-6 landing craft.

RUSSIAN WWII :
- M 1937 type, 152mm gun howitzer with prime mover. (agree with "RedLeif" on this item)
- Katiousha BM-13 on ZIS truck.
- Engineer bridging set for rivers crossing (pontoons, boats, ...)
- Heavy artillery tractor "Voroshilovetz" (very agree with "Redleif")
or ...
- "Komintern" heavy artillery tractor : Must have in russian artillery arsenal (More than 2000 were product) to tract 152mm gun howitzer.

ENGLISH WWII :
- LVT4 "water buffalo" with MG & Posten gun. (must have 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 (for russians "Lendlease" too)
- Churchill "Small Box Girder" (assaut bridge)
- "Bailey bridge", engineer bridge (use everywhere with US & GB forces during WWII and after in post war)
- LCA, landing craft infantry (for WWII and Indochine war 1945-54)
- UK Austin K2 Ambulance

- WWII french and german civilian vehicules.
- Drum can fuel stock

RedLeif · Post by **RedLeif** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:15 am

Love the Romanian ideas, esp the TACAMs.

And I'd take either a Voroshilovets or Komintern Hvy. Sov. tractor (Nice one Pibber) for the 203's and 152's, but one or the other would be better than none.
I'd buy the M4 US tractor too. I wish they'd blister pack the M5 med. US tractor.

LCT6, Lets see at ~ 1mm per foot that would be 119mm long by 32mm wide so about 4.7" long by 1 and about 5/32's wide, that's BIG!

cool dreams, gang.
redleif

TAMMY · Post by **TAMMY** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:55 am

Any type of bridging equipment.both deployed and in transport column. May be they would be better as Command box considering the number of models involved.

I would start with Bailey bridge, then German and American with Russian last.

British bridgelayer tanks: Churchill (and may be Sherman) with small box girder plus Valentine with scissors bridge.

Churchill Ark and similar T-34 may be interestng too.

(BTW I wonder why the British were the only one to manufacture bridging tanks in quantity. The Russian IT-28 was one prototype only and the Panzer IV bruckenleg were 20 in all besides baing used only in the campaign of France.)

pibber · Post by **pibber** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:48 am

Very agree with you TAMMY,

and agree with what you said :
" Any type of bridging equipment.both deployed and in transport column. May be they would be better as Command box considering the number of models involved. "

RedLeif · Post by **RedLeif** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:35 pm

Hey A J,
I think your primary need may have been the ARV, but GHQ does make a Churchill Mk VII based bridgelayer. Check out GHQ UK85 ( http://www.ghqmodels.com/store/uk85.html ) for the Churchill Bridgelayer you asked for. Does that fit your need?

Castings of the BREN w/wasp flamethrower and 3" mortar would save some 'DIY conversion' time.

regards,
redleif