includes six one-piece resin LRDG Chev trucks with crew and weapon options.
Well before the start of the Second World War, a British officer in Egypt took an interest in the deep desert. Major Ralph Bagnold was a veteran desert traveller. He, along with some colleagues, pioneered techniques for crossing the Sahara with
motor vehicles and is also credited with the development of the sundial compass. This device was critical for navigating the desert wastes where a normal compass would be lead astray by the many iron deposits in the Sahara.
Prezzo Scontato 38,30€
SAS Jeep Troop
includes seven SAS Jeeps with drivers and passengers,
The Special Air Service (SAS) was established by David Sterling who personally led missions until his capture in 1943. Another colourful leader was Paddy Mayne, a former commando. During one raid, Mayne physically lifted a control panel out of a German plane with his bare hands when he ran out of explosives to use.
Prezzo Scontato 25,50€
LRDG Ford V8 Car
with two one-piece resin LRDG Ford V8 cars, two drivers, two passengers & four vehicle Machine-guns.
Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) patrols are led by a pilot cars, whose duty is to test out the ground ahead of the rest of the patrol for soft sand and other desert hazards. In the first few years this car was a Ford V8, but the American Willys Jeep quickly became a favourite as they became available.
Prezzo Scontato 9,40€
LRDG / SAS Dismounted Patrols
with ten Dismounted LRDG/SAS teams & ten Small bases.
The British were the first to organise proper deep desert raiding forces beginning with the Long Range Desert Group, also known as the LRDG.
Prezzo Scontato 7,70€
Desert Raiding Campaign Pack
includes one Raiding Aces booklet, one Campaign Map, ten Raiding Aces Medal Pins, one erasable marker pen & one plastic tube carry case.
Raiding Aces is an escalation campaign that focuses on the special forces that fought in the Sahara from 1941-1943. It is all about the bold raids, sabotage missions, and convoy ‘bash ups’ fought in North Africa.
Prezzo Scontato 20,40€
SS Kradschutzen Platoon w/ Kurt Meyer
includes one SS-Kradschützen HQ section, one SS-Kradschützen Platoon HQ section with one Light Mortar team & one Anti-tank Rifle team, three Schützen squads, Kurt Meyer (in mounted & dismounted versions) & one Small base, six Medium bases & siz Large bases.
The Schutzstaffel or SS are the military embodiment of the Nazi political party. Their motorcycle troops move swiftly and decisively against the enemies of Germany.
Prezzo Scontato 29,80€
Gebirgsjäger Infantry Company (2 platoons plus HQ)
includes Gebirgsjäger Company HQ & two Gebirgsjäger Platoons with Command SMG team, Light Mortar team, Anti-tank Rifle team & Infanterie squads, four optional Panzerknacker figures, four optional Panzerfaust figures, eight Small bases & sixteen Medium bases.
Prezzo Scontato 29,80€
Gebirgsjäger PaK36 Platoon (x2)
includes two 3.7cm PaK36 guns (with Steilgranate option) with crew, one Command SMG team, one Small base & two Medium bases.
The 3.7cm PaK36 was Germany standard anti-tank weapon at the outbreak of war in 1939; over 15,000 PaK36s had been manufactured by 1941.
Prezzo Scontato 11,90€
5cm PaK38 Platoon (SS)
includes three 5cm PaK38 guns with crew, Command SMG team, one Small base & three Medium bases.
Issued to the German Army in April 1941, the 5cm PaK38 was the successor of the 3.7cm PaK36 anti-tank gun. Developed in the late 1930s by Rheinmetall-Borsig, the 5cm Pak38 soon proved its worth during the early campaigns and into Operation Barbarossa.
Prezzo Scontato 18,70€
15cm sIG33 Platoon (SS)
includes two 15cm sIG33 guns with crew, one Command SMG team, one Observer Rifle team, two Small bases & two Medium Bases.
The 15cm schweres InfanterieGeschutz 33 (sIG33) was designed and built to fulfil the requirement for a powerful, close support gun for the infantry. The German Army preferred infantry support guns rather than the mortar that most other countries tended to favor for this kind of role.
Prezzo Scontato 13,60€
Gebirgsjäger Mortar Platoon
includes six 8cm GW34 mortars with crew, Command SMG tea, Observer Rifle team, two Small bases & six Medium bases.
The 8cm GW34 (Granatwerfer 34, meaning grenade launcher model 1934) was a conventionally designed medium mortar. Mortar crews from other nations would find nothing strange or unusual about it when comparing it with their own weapons of the same type.
Prezzo Scontato 11,90€
Unterscharfüher Michael Wittmann (StuG A)
includes Dismounted Michael Wittman figure, one StuG A with Michael Wittmann Tank Commander figure & one Small base.
Michael Wittmann joined the SS in 1937. His first command was in an Sd Kfz 222 armoured car in Poland. He soon came to command a StuG III A after the campaign in France and went into action with the rest of the battery in Greece.
Prezzo Scontato 9,40€
AS37 Autosahariana Platoon
includes five one-piece resin AS37 Trucks with crew & weapons options. After the successful campaign against the Senussi, Italian troops guarding the frontier knew a lot about fighting in the deep desert. What’s more is that the Italians began building modern roads to supply the remote outposts as well as airfields to fly in supplies and operate air patrols. Finally, this also gave them the opportunity to chart accurate maps of the deep desert.
Prezzo Scontato 29,80€
AS42 Autosahariana Platoon
includes five one-piece resin AS42 Trucks with crew & weapon options.
The Sahariana was an open bodied version of the Autoblindo armoured car, adapted as a long range desert patrol vehicle. Camionetta is an Italian term used for soft vehicles modified to mount weapons, and often translated to Jeep, hence the Sahariana is often referred to as the Italian Desert Jeep.
Prezzo Scontato 29,80€
Motociclisti Platoon
includes ten motorcycles, ten riders, ten passengers, two Greek officier passenges, two Greek VB passengers & five Large Bases.
When the Bersaglieri units of Motorciclisti deployed to the Eastern front their tropical helmets were replaced with the more traditional Italian helmet.
Prezzo Scontato 11,90€
