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New Releases!

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Awesome new releases!

M-ATVs are a definite. M-19 SPAA is a probable and even though I don't do WWII I may get one of the gunboats because they just look so cool. Excellent Job GHQ.

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Re: New Releases!

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av8rmongo wrote:Awesome new releases!
Indeed!

A real jackpot of new stuff. Nice pics up too, from the start. :D

The new PzIVf2 looks really good. I don't have cause for any, but it sure is tempting, even if just for target-practice for my Tunisia campaign Sherman M4A1s!

The BKA1125 looks really nice! I must have some. While I think the T-28 turret. is great for the early production, over the course of the war they were more commonly-built with T-34 turrets. I hope that I can swap turrets easily enough, as I always have extra T-34s available for kit-bashing. But I think GHQ missed an opportunity -- they could have (or still could?) packaged it with a choice of 2 turrets. :wink:

The Malaxa (UE) is a nice addition. Useful for my Romanians, and even for my French forces. German WW2 forces can use them too -- they were not uncommon in PAK units on the Eastern Front, and even Panzer Armee Afrika had some!

The M19 looks great! AIUI a few made it to ETO before the end of the war (although SPAA was not much needed by US forces by that time). Would have been a key piece of kit in any "Patton vs. Zhukov, 1945-47" scenarios, and is useful for Korea. If you have Pershings and Chaffees (like me!) you probably need some of these, too. 8)

But I must question the listing for the BB Tsessarevitch. It says "Beautiful Design".
WTF, over?!?!!? I mean yeah, beautifully modelled perhaps. But that has to be one of the ugliest ships ever floated! :lol: Worth buying and painting up just for an "ugly duckling" display.
Beautiful design indeed. Who do you think you're kidding?Probably tell us Shermans are heavy tanks next ...
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Post by kiasutha »

Yah, Malaxas, and 6 per pack is really good too with these tiny things.
But no mention of the trailers included?
edit on 7/20-I just looked at the listing and see that it now includes and shows trailers in the Malaxa pack. Whether this is an addition to the pack, or just a clarification in the listing I don't know; but-
Thank You,GHQ. :)

Those were standard issue with them; they couldn't haul diddle-squat without it.
Even part of the AT gun crews rode in them, and they carried fuel & supplies in them for the motor-cav units...
I hope we don't have to order them extra from the French pack...

edit-well,after days of searching I've found one brief reference to these being used by RO.as "tows" without the trailer;but not one photo of one "in service" that way to back it up.
(may not mean much;photos of them aren't too common exept in museums & captured vehicle parks...) Anyone else have any?

Hey-watch what you say about that French-designed Russian tub! :lol:
It's so ugly it's beautiful, and resulted in the almost equally "beautiful" Slava's. :wink:
Be nice if they included the old "fighting tops" to back-date them too...
I've got to admit-it's much the same reason I like the IJN so much...
(entirely "tongue in cheek", but I expect you know that)
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Post by sultanbev »

The M19 will be useful for the India-Pakistan wars, the Pakistani army had a regiment of 18 of them in the 1965 war. Not sure if they actually saw combat though...

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Post by exodusforever »

I can safely say for myself that a couple of packs of M-ATVs are going into my expenditure soon.

That is for sure. Might do a Jungle camo for it too.

Good job done on the detailing of the M-ATV from its picture in the catalog.
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Post by BattlerBritain »

And I like that T-72 with ERA.

Looks a bit useful.

Wonder if GHQ would do different 'Styles' of ERA packs? I'm thinking of the 'wedge' grouping on the front of the turret, a bit like T-64s sometimes have.

Hmmm - extra bits in the pack maybe?

'Pimp my T-72' anybody? :)

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