World War II Wishlist?

[marfac]

HI
what about to expand the US infantry range? Adding for example more standing and knee firing and 1 or two more advancing figure?

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

There was reference to there only being one vote for a Pzkw IIIG.

Note that the 50L42 (more generally known as the 5cm kurz) armed Pzkw III was the mainstay of the German panzerwaffe from mid 1941 to early-mid 1942 in both North Africa and, more importantly, on the Ostfront.

The later Pzkw IIIJ (which I assume is the GR127 "IIIj" in the Pendraken line?) was armed with the 50L60 and is therefore known as the 5cm lang.  This was what armed the Ausf L and M.

The 5cm kurz equipped retrofitted Pzkw IIIE-F (?), the IIIG (~600 vehicles produced Apr40-Feb41) , the IIIH (308 vehicles
produced Oct40-Apr41) and the early IIIJ (482 vehicles produced Mar41-Jul?42).

With the absence of a Pzkw III 5cm kz at present the T-26, T-34 and KV-1 appear not to have one of their commonest opponents during Barbarossa.  There were no 50L60 armed Pzkw III produced until December 1941.

Regards

Edward

[Leon]

Thanks for the info Edward, the designer has actually asked for a PzIIIE back for him to convert the barrel to a later model.

[Steve J]

With the existing WWI and WWII French range, I think you can cover pretty much most of the kit for France 1940. However, it would be really nice to have an 80mm mortar and crew if possible, pretty please with lace flowers . That is the one thing really missing from the French infantry kit.

[sunjester]

Now we have got BEF and 8th Army antitank rifles, what about the Axis?

I like to see early war German, Afrika Korps and Italians please.

Graham

[Leon]

Yeah, we'll be looking at doing all those at some point.

[methos]

How about a British Comet   rather late in the war but wouldnt mind one 

[YORSTONS]

And a centurion.

[Doug]

This has my vote

[Steve J]

With the arrival of the very, very nice USMC range, may I be so bold as to request the following items be added to the range as and when time allows?

USMC with Bazooka (firer and loader x 3)
USMC with Flamethrower (firer and assistant x 3)
USMC with Browning MG (normal 3 in a pack)

37mm ATG with USMC crew
57mm ATG with USMC crew

LVT (A) 4 Ronson
LVT (A)1
LVT (A) 4
LVT (A) (note the existing British Buffalo maybe accpetable for this, but would bear further research)

M3 75mm GMC (SPM in Marine parlance)

It may be that some of the above are already in the pipeline or have been requested before, if so, please forgive me for repeating other requests.

Steve J.

[Leon]

Bazooka and flamethrower are in the next batch here: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=983.0

I'm sure some of the others will be done at some point.  That'll be it for the infantry side of the Pacific, while we get the Schleswig Holstein range done.  There's still the armour and some artillery planned though.

[Steve J]

Thanks for the reply Leon. I thought I had seen the bazooka and the flamethrower as greens, but wasn't quite sure.

[MiniPatton]

While I am mostly able to outfit my Marines with vehicles for the period, my Japanese infantry are getting a bit lonely.  Any news on releases of vehicles for the WWII Pacific stuff?  Thanks!

[Leon]

They were held up a bit due to the designer moving premises.  We spoke to him at Edinburgh though, and he said that he would be getting to them this week for us.  So hopefully, we'll be seeing them very soon.

In the meantime, there'll be some more Marines to keep you busy!

[MiniPatton]

I suppose that will have to do, any chance of a preview list at least???