Berthe Mayer, MBE
While researching my upcoming book about the 1942 battle for Madagascar, I came across the story of Berthe Mayer. I've written an article about her exploits for International Women's Day.
An SOE agent during the Second World War, she was awarded the MBE for her work behind enemy lines before and during the Madagascar campaign.
Apologies for the lack of news last month, we needed a quiet month to catch up with moulding, remoulding and new products.
What's New?
Quite a bit for March! We have added the King's African Rifles to our WW1 Africa range, together with some guns for both British and Germans - including the British BLC 15 Pounder, which will do nicely for Territorials and Canadians on the Western Front in 1914/15. We have also added the Garde Mobile/Sedentaire for the Franco-Prussian War and finally got around to adding cavalry and dismounted motorcyclists for the GRCA/GRDI for the French in WW2.
The Plan!
Next up will be the Schutztruppen for WW1 Africa, a new version of the WW2 German Flak 88mm and the long-awaited Italian M11/39.
Regarding the Modern Ranges, we have divided off the Modern ranges (Ranges for sale) retained the Postwar ranges - divided roughly at the introduction of Chobham/ERA. Some of the old 'M' codes will be re-released after remoulding (BMDs,BRDM, CVRTs) in the appropriate mods for the 1950s - 1970s. These can be found under the QRF 1950s-1970s category on our home page.
What's Next?
Continuing the WW1 Africa releases - Schutzentruppen for April and Askaris for May and re-moulding as much as we can of the Postwar to get the quality back to where it should be! We have a few new vehicles and infantry in mind too...
So – go explore!!
Chas and Geoff
More great new 28mm plastics from Wargames Atlantic. This time its Western European Resistance fighters for WWII a fantastic set with tons of options. We are told more partisans are on the horizon so watch this space..
We've recently released Cromwell and Centaur tanks
7 different variants are available:
Cromwell Mk I - 6pdr gun
Cromwell Mk IV - 75mm gun
Cromwell Mk VI - 95mm gun
Centaur Mk I - 6pdr gun
Centaur Mk IV - 95mm gun
Centaur AA
Centaur Bulldozer
Prices:
6mm is £0.77
12mm is £3.50
15mm is £5.00
20mm is £9.50
28mm is £20.50
The models are available in most scales.
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