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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: lou passejaire on 14 January 2017, 04:25:44 PM

Title: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: lou passejaire on 14 January 2017, 04:25:44 PM

coming soon from Crusader Miniatures :

(http://downloads.northstarfigures.com/newsletter/images/Dragons_Portes1.png)

a quite complete range of French Dragons Motocyclistes  ...
they can be used for any dismounted French motorcycle unit in 1940 .

Just missing the motorbikes , or some light civilian cars to carry them .
( after the Journey in Belgium who ended in the Dunkirk failure, due to the lack of motorbikes with sidecars, open toped civilian cars were used )

(http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/11/63/95/43/peufeo10.png)

i asked for a 25mm AT gun crew, a generic artillery crew, and motorbikes with side cars , Gnome Rhone, Terrot or Indian chief .

Release february ...

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: Arlequín on 14 January 2017, 07:05:56 PM

They look great and a long-awaited addition.  :)

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: Poiter50 on 15 January 2017, 04:23:35 AM

Will they add VB launchers as per your FB discussion?

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: lou passejaire on 15 January 2017, 10:46:11 AM

I sent a OOB of the Dragons to Nick ... so i hope Mark Sims will add some to the range ... and a 25mm crew
My main concern is the great number of SMG ...
Very few SMG were in use in the 1940 French Army , mostly in the road regulation units, armoured vehicles crew ... mostly seized Spanish stuff .

The perfect units to use them, with the SMG are the Groupes Francs Motorisés created after Dunkirk, from surviving Dragons units , with what's avaible as weapons and vehicles ... we have no army files about those units, except individual accounts and brief unit diaries  ;) ...

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: emosbur on 15 January 2017, 02:46:58 PM

Awesome minis and a nice addition to the 28mm ranges!

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: lou passejaire on 15 January 2017, 04:29:48 PM

they are released today ...  ;D

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: Casabianca on 15 January 2017, 06:30:34 PM

Very interesting ! Merci  :)

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: Arthur on 16 January 2017, 10:53:08 PM

The full monty :

(http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/images/img1025.jpg)
(http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/images/img1026.jpg)
(http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/images/img1027.jpg)
(http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/images/img1028.jpg)
(http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/images/img1029.jpg)
(http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/images/img1030.jpg)
(http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/images/img1031.jpg)

That Hotchkiss MMG looks awfully small to me though.

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: lou passejaire on 17 January 2017, 05:43:38 PM

a VB grenade Launcher set will be released in the future ... and it seem's that we have a chance to see Motorcycle with side car coming from North Star ...

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: Arlequín on 18 January 2017, 11:36:10 AM

Non-German Motorcycle combinations? What heresy is this?  lol

This must be stopped before it gets out of hand, next it will be mythical French paratroops! 

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/ed/2c/05/ed2c050bbfbd3bf67c0b891fc03380ed.jpg)

 ;)

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: lou passejaire on 18 January 2017, 05:07:15 PM

i made a dream : next one; spahi cavalry range , complete with 37mm gun, and dismounted models ...

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: Arlequín on 19 January 2017, 11:24:03 AM

I would like to see some Infantry without the capote. Of course non-desert colonial troops would always be welcome too.

Title: Re: Fall of France Dragons Portés
Post by: lou passejaire on 20 January 2017, 01:02:55 AM

infantry and gun crew without capote and backpack will be a pure dream ...

even the sniper carry his backpack in the warlord range ...  lol