"HISTORICAL" Wish List for 2010-2011

[Donald M. Scheef]

The T-10 is definitely not "essentially the same as a JSIII." The T-10 is visibly larger, with seven road wheels on each side compared to six per side on the JSIII. The shape of the hull and turret were revised. The gun barrel was longer and bulkier with a fume extractor. While the T-10 was an impressive vehicle, it should be kept in mind that relatively few were built because of the superior flexability of the T-54/T-55 series.

Don S.

[Mickel]

M75 and M59. That'll then finish the line from the M-2 back to the erm... M-2.

AMX-VCI.

Mickel

[KJ]

Late to the party (as always), but I'd like to add my voice to those asking for Great War equipment and infantry. As a long-time owner of this period's figures from other companies, I'd be very happy to see them released with GHQ's level of quality and attention to detail.

I'd also like to suggest two items that didn't "make the cut" from last year:

Israeli/Turkish Sabra (M60 variant)
T-72 w/ERA (the T-72 re-sculpt is nice, but...).

[Schwerepunkt]

I would like to see a truck mounted 6x6 crane and D-8 bulldozer added for use by combat engineers of the US Army. The dump truck and full line of deuce and a halfs and 7 ton trucks fulfill the other needs nicely, along with the power truck. I have noticed an A frame crane used on the front of Army trucks using their winch to act as cranes and moving objects in bridge building.
Were cranes in use at the front or were other means used to lift and place heavy bridge equipment (bailey bridges) and heavy pontoon roadways?

[CG1]

Looking across this thread, I think it would be useful to collate the requests to see what the most popular new items to date are in each category.

It also seems that there is demand for a new World War I range and for the Wehrmacht '47 range to also include the Korean War. 'Modern' seems to settle out as post-Korean war except Vietnam which has a separate range due to the high interest.

Logically, it would make sense to split this thread into the appropriate ranges before collation. I'm happy to go back through the thread and collate the World War II requests unless someone else already owns this area?

CG1

[fishnoise]

Count me in as someone who’d buy World War I vehicles with GHQ quality. I’d go further by suggesting a “Plan 1919â€￾ line similar to GHQ’s admirable Wehrmacht ’47 effort. (I got my Tortoises already—good job!)

As pointed out, GHQ already makes the FT-17 and the Rolls-Royce armored car. I’d add the Polish horsedrawn 75mm gun. This is the ubiquitous French “soixante-quinzeâ€￾ with spoked wheels and the crew even seem to be wearing Adrian helmets.

I’ve collected samples of Great War armor from the usual British makers. The quality ranges from “well, it paints up okayâ€￾ to lead lumps that require more imagination than I can muster. GHQ has done a great job with tanks of the last 70 years—it’s time they to do justice to the first couple of decades as well.

So here’s my wish list:

Mark I, male and female (clip the male’s guns from the sponsons for the supply version)
Mark I gun carrier with removable 60 pdr
Mark IV, male and female (the Germans captured and used many)
Mark V hermaphrodite
Mark V* or V**, male and female
Medium Mk A (Whippet)
Schneider CA1
St. Chamond (early or late version)
A7V (the Germans had just enough for a Combat Command!)
A7V Gelandwagen (tracked transport)
Ehrhardt E-V/4 armored car
Plus representative trucks and horsedrawn transport

Also, “Plan 1919â€￾ scenarios might call for these:

Mark VIII (Liberty)
Mark IX APC
Medium Mk B or C
Char 2C (the French still had 10 of these landships in June 1940)
A7V/U (experimental German rhomboid)
Lk II (a German “Whippetâ€￾)
K-wagen (two monsters were partially completed at the Armistice)
Austin-Putilov armored car (good for Russian Civil War/Intervention scenarios too)

For fun we could include, like fossils in the Burgess Shale, early tanks with wildly divergent body plans that were definitely not favored by evolution—the American Skeleton Tank, for instance, or the Russian Tsar Tank.

Artillery might include horse- and truck-drawn variants of the French 105mm and 155mm guns in addition to the 75mm; the German 77mm gun (useful in the AT role), 210mm howitzer, and 420mm “Big Berthaâ€￾; and British 13/18 pdr, 4.5-inch, and 60 pdr guns.

Infantry packs could include plenty of Maxim and Vickers MGs, as well as Lewis guns (the SAW of its time). Stokes mortars for the tommies and flamethrowers for the sturmtroopen as well. Don’t forget the BARs for the Americans!

As an aside, another American manufacturer has some beautifully detailed, if delicate, WWI aircraft aimed at the dogfight wargamer. Some of them, such as the Bristol F.2B and the Halberstadt, are suited for the late-war ground-attack role. A larger selection of much coarser models, including a Gotha bomber, are available from British sources.

[LJERONIMO]

15 cm sIG 33 auf Fahrgestell Panzerkampfwagen II (Sf)

Only 12 were built in November and December 1941. These served with the 707th and 708th Heavy Infantry Gun Companies in North Africa until their destruction in 1943.
But that’s 12 more than the total production run of the E100 or the Sdkfz350

My DAK has been awaiting a good model of this vehicle for years

I AGREE, I,M TRYING TO RECREATE THE SECOND ALAMEIN AND I HAVE SOME PICTURES OF THIS PIECE.
AND WHAT ABOUT A ME-110 AND THE HE-111????
IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE THEM WITH THE GHQ QUALITY

[ACWBill]

How about the following for WWII?

US M1919 Water-Cooled 30 Cal
US Infantry in Greatcoats
German Infantry in Greatcoats (In a mix of soft hats and helmets)
A US non-para weapons pack 2 to include the Air-Cooled and water-cooled 30 Cals, 50 Cal, 81mm Mortar, 107mm, Chemical Mortar
German PAK35
A German Weapons Pack 2 with 81mm and 120mm Mortars which could include the PAK35 as well
Finish the Becker Funnies with halftrack conversions like the Somua and add French Trucks like the Citroen Series
French Citroen Traction Avant car heavily used by the Germans as a staff car
M-8 A/C without mud guards
Kneeling Gun crew for ATGs for all nations

I posted my ACW 10mm list elsewhere in this forum. I am pleased with the progress in this line during 2009 and have purchased multiple packs of each new offering. In fact, I am off to buy some Iron Brigade Firing after I post this message.

Re the WWI line mentioned above, I assume all of the infantry would be done including:

Stosstruppen
French, German, British, Italian, Russian and Austrian
Cossacks
Cavalry
Mortars
Heavy Guns

A Great War line seems to be more suited to 10mm then micro I must say. Since infantry was the primary weapon it would seem better to do them a bit bigger. Just my opinion.

What about all the great WWI A/C available in 10mm - would not this serve well as ancillaries to a 10mm WWI line?

[LJERONIMO]

AFTER READING ALL THE POST TILL NOW THIS IS MY WISH LIST:

GERMANY
- 15 cm siG33 auf Fahrgestell PzKpfw II (SF): All served with the 90th Light Division in North Africa.
-SdKfz 6 7.62-cm FK36(r) auf SF Zugkraftwagen 5t – Soviet 76mm guns mounted on half-tracks. Service with the 90th Light Division in North Africa.
- Horch 108 + Flak 38 USED IN NORTH AFRIKA TOO

ITALY
AB-40 – Widely used in North Africa
M-14/41 – Improved M-13/40
149mm Canone w/ prime mover


AIRCRAFT
He-111H: The most widely used and manufactured version of the He-111H.
Bf-109F4 Trop – A North African variant
Bf-110G – Final version of the Bf-110. Improved crew armor.
Breda Ba.65 – Ground attack fighter used in both WWII and in the Spanish Civil War.
Fiat G.50 – Used throughout the war by Italy, Germany, Finland, and others
Macchi C.200AS – North African variant of the C.200
BRISTOL BLENHEIM
BEAUFIGHTER
SOME BRITISH AND AMERICAN BOMBERS;LANCASTER, HALIFAX, BALTIMORE....

[LJERONIMO]

OF COURSE I WILL LIKE TO SEE CRATES, FUEL CANS AND ALL THE KIND OF STUFF THAT YOU SEE IN ANY LOGISTICAL UNIT AND SERVES FOL ALL THE TIMES

[LJERONIMO]

SORRY THE HORCH IS THE:
Horch 108 & 20mm Flak 30

[HHaase]

Since I've basically decided to focus on North Africa, I can think of a few things I'd like to see.

Deacon 6pdr portee
Matilda Scorpion
CMP Quad's sold as their own packaging.
Churchill MkI
Churchill ARK

Some interesting what-if's would be
US M6 Heavy Tank
M6 37mm tank destroyer
Matilda and Grant CDL's

-Hans

[fishnoise]

I'll second the U.S. M6 heavy tank for "what-if" scenarios in North Africa.

Speaking of North Africa, how about some P40 Warhawks?