Yeah, okay, a low priority one, but only the Germans seem to get the love with the bikes.
Ideally some Airborne motorcyclists (Welbikes?), but anything to be honest. I blame Two Fat Lardies for putting motorbikes in the recon sections!
(On an unrelated note, bicycle infantry for French and Germans for Early war would be hilarious very useful.)
There are British WWI BP54 Motorcycle with sidecar (3) & French WWII FRE48 Motorcycle Troops, mounted (3) combat motorcycles
There are also a WWII & Italian and and Soviet WWII despatch motorcyclists
You mean like GRF71 Infantry pushing loaded bicycle (5) (formerly code GR45) in the German WWII range ;) :)
Steve McQueen on one of those Wehrmacht issue Triumphs.
If you can tell it's Steve McQueen in 10mm your eyesight is better than mine :)
The Germans have dumped their motorbikes by early 1942. :'(
The Kradshutzen bttns are all disbanded and personnel absorbed. The bikes are relegated to couriers and the odd recce company in the recce bttn.
Push bikes are just for a bit more mobility to get TO the battle, not to ride IN the battle. Jerry famously took thousands of bikes off the Dutch civilians to this end. In Hackett's "I was a stranger" (about his time as an escapee evader in the Netherlands) the Germans search a house for bikes which has already been picked clean. BUT one proud Jerry does take a pair of roller skates! Now THAT would be a figure to have. ;)
If we ever get 10mm Volksturm, perhaps we could have a Volksturm Panzerjager
(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12548939_1310506022308899_7236373680149992947_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_ht=scontent-lht6-1.xx&oh=1ead9bfbe6ea628716444afe77497135&oe=5D70CA4A)
I was more meaning the unsidecar'd dispatch motorbikes (and presumably Wellbikes) that the Lardies have put in the Recon Company for British Airborne.
Hans pops a wheelie.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 22 April 2019, 06:45:12 PM
If we ever get 10mm Volksturm, perhaps we could have a Volksturm Panzerjager
(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12548939_1310506022308899_7236373680149992947_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_ht=scontent-lht6-1.xx&oh=1ead9bfbe6ea628716444afe77497135&oe=5D70CA4A)
Quote from: Dr Dave on 22 April 2019, 05:29:00 PM
The Germans have dumped their motorbikes by early 1942. :'(
The Kradshutzen bttns are all disbanded and personnel absorbed. The bikes are relegated to couriers and the odd recce company in the recce bttn.
Push bikes are just for a bit more mobility to get TO the battle, not to ride IN the battle. Jerry famously took thousands of bikes off the Dutch civilians to this end. In Hackett's "I was a stranger" (about his time as an escapee evader in the Netherlands) the Germans search a house for bikes which has already been picked clean. BUT one proud Jerry does take a pair of roller skates! Now THAT would be a figure to have. ;)
'ik wil mijin fiets terug' or "Mijn opa wil zijn fiets terug". I /My Grandpa want the bike back.
Dutch chant when playing the Germans at football.
(Illustration form the Beatniks Vs Pornstars era).
(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/03/28/sports/28cruyff/28cruyff-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Quote from: hobbittomm on 22 April 2019, 09:39:28 PM
I was more meaning the unsidecar'd dispatch motorbikes (and presumably Wellbikes) that the Lardies have put in the Recon Company for British Airborne.
There's also the WW1 despatch rider - WW1 under WW1 Miscellaneous
(https://pendraken.co.uk/_img/products/1902/WW1.jpg)
Actually, I read that one of the famous German tankers used a motor bike to perform a recon and to try to reach another unit shortly after the D-Day landings, so people were still using them in the German army fairly late into the war.
That was a M/C without a sidecar, IIRC, but I'd like to see both ones with and without sidecars produced.
Irregular Miniatures do a couple of hairy bikers - one pillion passenger toting an RPG7 - in the modern 10mm bushwar range.
From the image it is probably too modern for WW2, but perhaps the single biker figure's machine could be modified to a WW2 look ??
Quote from: hobbittomm on 21 April 2019, 12:41:37 AM
Yeah, okay, a low priority one, but only the Germans seem to get the love with the bikes.
Ideally some Airborne motorcyclists (Welbikes?), but anything to be honest. I blame Two Fat Lardies for putting motorbikes in the recon sections!
(On an unrelated note, bicycle infantry for French and Germans for Early war would be hilarious very useful.)
How can you mention bicycles without mentioning Belgium (and Italy)?
Quote from: Mako on 21 October 2019, 05:48:18 AM
Actually, I read that one of the famous German tankers used a motor bike to perform a recon and to try to reach another unit shortly after the D-Day landings, so people were still using them in the German army fairly late into the war.
That was a M/C without a sidecar, IIRC, but I'd like to see both ones with and without sidecars produced.
Yes agreed, but it's not a unit on motor bikes. That's one bloke with a motorbike. They did still use them for couriers, but not for whole m/c bttns like they had in 1939-41
The solution for a German motorbike is simple. Get the pendraken set and don't add the side car?
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 21 October 2019, 12:47:43 PM
How can you mention bicycles without mentioning Belgium (and Italy)?
...and the Netherlands ... ""where is my grandfather's bicycle" :)
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 22 April 2019, 04:18:30 PM
Steve McQueen on one of those Wehrmacht issue Triumphs.
Not so fast! I don't know what model Steve McQueen had in The Great Escape but Triumph was founded by a German and was known as Triumph-Werke Nürnberg AG in Germany. Between 1932 and 1942 the Wehrmacht used more than 40,000 Triumph bikes in 7 different models :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 22 October 2019, 10:47:50 PM
...and the Netherlands ... ""where is my grandfather's bicycle" :)
I mentioned Belgium and Italy since both fielded "elite" units of bicycle infantry.
I'd also not heard of the Dutch (great bicycle users though they are) using the bicycle in a military context.
My impression was they still used the horse for motor-free reconnaissance, one created by working just along the road form the cavalry barracks.
A bit of research reveals weilrijder platoons attached to infantry as reconnaissance elements.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 23 October 2019, 08:51:42 AM
I'd also not heard of the Dutch (great bicycle users though they are) using the bicycle in a military context.
My impression was they still used the horse for motor-free reconnaissance, one created by working just along the road form the cavalry barracks.
It was a reference to the 2006 World Cup when a T-shirt with the slogan "I want my bicycle back", referring to Germany's seizure of Dutch property under occupation, had reportedly been selling fast in the Netherlands. It was an offence, punishable by death in some cases, for the Dutch not to hand over their bikes from 1942 onwards, iirc..
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