Hello from the Netherlands

[Steve J]

Welcome on board . 10mm is great for WWII, with plenty of stuff to allow for Blitzkreig and Normandy '44 games

[Sojka]

Welcome Sojka

There appears to be an assumption that "WWII western front" means 1944-45
I'm wondering if you were thinking of a similar area but about 4 years earlier

I am interested in both periods of activity here, both during the initial invasion and the later period following D-Day, as well as Africa, Italy, the east... ok, ok. I want to shoot at teeny toy Germans. I live about 20 km from Aachen, in the very south of the Netherlands. Lot of fighting happened around here =(

Though 1944 gets a lot easier if there are M4A3s.... did I miss them or does Pendraken not make this model yet?

Thank you all for the welcome!

[Sojka]

Hallo, en welkom op dit Forum. Voor wo2 is 10mm een goede keuze 

Hallo! Ik ben heel blij om hier te zijn! 10mm likte op een goede keuze, ja

[Kiwidave]

More foreign jonnies. BAHHH HUMBUG

This wasn't funny the first time you said it, Ian. Now it's just tiresome...

[Tawa]

Herro! 

[FierceKitty]

This wasn't funny the first time you said it, Ian. Now it's just tiresome...

They've just never forgiven the Dutch for doing a Pearl Harbour number on their fleet once.

[d_Guy]

Hi Sojka - welcome!
I pretty much inhabit the 17th century when the Dutch were doing some pretty heavy punching against the English AND gave'em a king too, by G_d! So twice welcome! (Most of us are kidding about the nationalistic stuff but as Subedai says the trick is figuring out who is who  )
This is actually quite a fun and useful forum.

[fsn]

Hi Sojka - welcome!
I pretty much inhabit the 17th century when the Dutch were doing some pretty heavy punching against the English AND gave'em a king too, by G_d!

Hang on ... "G_d" is ... well, you know, Her. ("The first thing you should know about G_d is that she's black.") ... so is d_Guy - doGuy? Pronounced "doggie"?


That's puts a different colour of lipstick on the biscuit! 

[Ithoriel]

A good rule of thumb here is that if someone appears to be being rude it's probably a clumsy attempt at humour.

The exception is when it's about something really serious ... like whether you can use a particular 10mm figure to represent a slightly different unit when the cuffs on the tunics of the 14th Regiment, The Queen's Own Cowards and Deserters were 25mm shorter than those of the King's Loyal Roisterers that the figure is intended to portray. Then the full rules of kanly apply Use of atomics will lead to an instant forum ban

[fsn]

All quite right and proper. Wasn't there meself, but heard about the tragic Pom-Pom disaster of '08. One forum member, as I heard it, was called out for his poor historicity, and chose to, gad, it's so awful that one dare not say it, chose to ... sell all his Pendraken miniatures and ... buy Games Workshop! Poor fellow, his spirit was quite broken. Should have known that damned shade of blue would never have been seen on a British uniform!

I believe his collapse was total and he ended up LARPing.

Poor blighter.

[d_Guy]

Hang on ... "G_d" is ... well, you know, Her. ("The first thing you should know about G_d is that she's black.") ... so is d_Guy - doGuy? Pronounced "doggie"?


That's puts a different colour of lipstick on the biscuit! 

"_" can be any vowel of course - so many possibilities. Well - OK - not many - but you get the point .  "a" is free but the rest cost money to insert (price lists are available at Buy-A-Vowel or cheaper, but less well formed, from Vowels-R-Us).
So - yes - doggie works fine but it is 3.4p per "o" insertion. You could go with the cheaper malformed "oo" (for 2.3p per) to get "dooggie".
I can't promise I will always answer to the latter - your choice.
Incidentally "y" is the most expensive at 14p but it looks REALLY good when inserted.
Hope this answers your interesting question.

dyGuy

[Leman]

Hang on ... "G_d" is ... well, you know, Her. ("The first thing you should know about G_d is that she's black.") ... so is d_Guy - doGuy? Pronounced "doggie"?


That's puts a different colour of lipstick on the biscuit! 

I have also;cutely no idea what that is all about. Does it refer to a WWII vehicle of which I am ignorant?

[d_Guy]

I have also;cutely no idea what that is all about. Does it refer to a WWII vehicle of which I am ignorant?

Well this was apparently referred to as a "biscuit tin"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wirbelwind_CFB_Borden_2.jpg

Still - to answer you question - no, it is unlikely.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello Sojka

Welcome to the forum.

Can't help you with an M4A3 but if you're looking at 1940 some people here have had good results converting British NWF troops to Dutch WW2 by filing the helmet down. Or you could use the Romanians if you can stand using short gaiters instead of puttees.



As far as vehicles go, the only Carden Loyd I know of is made by Fairy Kikaku in Japan but you have to buy a set:-



http://www.hlj.com/product/FIRM016/Mil

The same manufacturer also makes a Dutch M36 and Dutch Wilton-Fijenoord



http://www.hlj.com/product/FIRM007/Mil

Tasmodel also makes an M36 and also a Curtis Wright Demon and a Vickers Amphibious tank (more useful for KNIL though).

http://www.tasmodelshop.nl/nl/category/1144/

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[OldenBUA]

Hello Grumpy. If I may join in. Good idea about the NW British, they might work for 1940 Dutch. No need to bother about the Carden Loyd though. There were only four of these, and they were used as artillery tractors, without the MG. The Wilton-Feijenoord can also be given a miss, only used by KNIL, and again very small numbers. The M36 is a good find though.

The best thing for 1940 Dutch would be a range of their own, of course. The number of codes that are needed isn't very great. And it would tie in nicely with the new release of BKC that is planned. Unless the plan is to drop the minor armies, and just concentrate on the big ones.