Many of the tractors ARE John Deere. Big business over there.
All blessings flow from a good mission statement.
Pogo was right. So was Ike.
"A Gentleman is a man who is only rude intentionally." (Churchill)
Give credit. Take responsibility.
I like taking vanilla tanks and vehicles and upgrading them with a bunch of stuff, And I would love to upgrade a baseline M1A2 into a more modern Abrams, But the problem is that GHQ doesn't make the Low profile CROWS on the newer Abrams, Currently the closest thing i know that GHQ sells is the gun on top of the VBMR Griffon. So that brings me to this suggestion.
USA, Modern ( 2010> ) CROWs, for other vehicles that have multiple weapon systems available *cough cough* M-ATV, JLTV *cough cough* I think it would make sense to have different types of weapons not on the base model sold as upgrade kits so the modeler can put any different weapon system on any vehicle they want. This also applies to other vehicles that i know exist but am unwilling to search for. And besides, Who wouldn't want to put a Gau-19 Rotary .50 cal on their Abrams lol
USA, Modern ( 1990? > ) Rotary machine guns, M134, Gau-19 CROWs or other Rotary guns would be awesome, I've seen HMMWVs(M134) and JLTVs(Gau-19) with different miniguns and would love to see them made as a independent kit so they could be put on anything.
Generic soliders in out-of-combat poses, sitting, eating, playing cards, digging, etc. would be very interesting. I think the trick would be to make them as widely useable as possible. Unhelmeted, perhaps? So that they can pass as a wider range of troop types, especially if intermixed with other figures?
I would not mind seeing an OV-1 Mohawk for USAREUR.
And I am sure that this will get others to think about an OV-10 Bronco. The Army was the only one not using the Bronco.
And since I am "Wishing upon a star" a B-52 and a KC-135. I can hang four B-52's and a KC-135 from the ceiling and have them topping-off enroute to their alert locations along the Soviet border.
"It is a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the road and, if you do not keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to."
I'm quietly hoping this year will be the year of infantry and we get some new infantry packs to update and complement some of the older lines.
Ukrainian infantry, special weapons and heavy weapons with a mixture of eastern and western arms.
Ukrainian BTR-4
Bush War soldiers - with weapons like R4 rifle series, MGL, RPG and RPD.
Heavy weapons and support weapons with mortar, GPMG, 106mm Recoilless rifle team, NTW-20 AMR and 84mm Carl Gustav.
TOW Operator team for US Army infantry line
Carl Gustav MAAWS Gunner for Ultramodern US line
TOW Operator team for Third World Warriors line
RPG-29 Operator for Third World Warriors line
Armoured technical truck with an assortment of weapons for the back like recoilless rifles, 107mm MRL, and ZPU-2 firing position.
US - M48A1
US - Davy Crockett, with carrier.
US - ENTAC AT missile carrier (M38 with missiles facing to rear, NOT the French model with boxes on the sides). This is the French SS10, which was used by US Army prior to TOW. ENTAC AT platoons were at Infantry battalion level. The company AT sections were two 106mm recoilless rifles.
All blessings flow from a good mission statement.
Pogo was right. So was Ike.
"A Gentleman is a man who is only rude intentionally." (Churchill)
Give credit. Take responsibility.
My wish list is for people to stop making copies of GHQ vehicles (add some $#$% to the model make a mold and cast) and try to tell me its legal. It aint.
Well, it wasn't all the troops did in units I was in over there. They worked pretty hard, went to gunnery 3 times a year, tactical training twice a year, spent plenty of time in the local training area, at least one alert per quarter, all of which meant plenty of maintenance on return. Classroom training in between. Plenty of prep day and night for Graf, Wildflecken, and Hohenfels. I think our schedule was fairly typical USAREUR-wide.
I've done some 3D printing and talked about it here. MBT70s and XM803s, AH56 and S67 attack helicopters, NONE of which GHQ makes, nor apparently, has any intention of making. Same for GM XM1, XM723, and XM800, which I plan to print. The M113s and M577s I've printed do not have NEARLY the detail of GHQ's and may be inspected at any time, as well. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but I haven't seen anything posted here that seemed to be ripping off GHQ. I do agree completely- it wouldn't be legal.
All blessings flow from a good mission statement.
Pogo was right. So was Ike.
"A Gentleman is a man who is only rude intentionally." (Churchill)
Give credit. Take responsibility.