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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: dominic on February 12, 2008, 03:48:03 PM

Title: 28mm French Somua tank?
Post by: dominic on February 12, 2008, 03:48:03 PM

Hi, I just discovered that the 100th Pz Regt operating near Carentan on D-Day used captured French Somua tanks.  Does anyone make this tank in 28mm scale?

Title: 28mm French Somua tank?
Post by: PeteMurray on February 12, 2008, 03:53:45 PM

Brigade Games stocks one. EDIT: Mystery solved

http://www.brigadegames.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=AGN-FR002B&Category_Code=WW2T&Product_Count=34

Title: 28mm French Somua tank?
Post by: Will Bailie on February 12, 2008, 03:56:29 PM

Army Group North has one:

http://www.agnminiatures.com/html/france.html

(it's the Tony Ashcroft version)

Edit:  and, obviously, the same one that Brigade Games carries!

Title: 28mm French Somua tank?
Post by: dominic on February 12, 2008, 04:25:09 PM

Thanks!  That's very useful, and they also have the PzIV.  According to a TO&E I just saw, 3 Pz Coys in 100 Pz Regt's 2nd Abteilung had 1 PzIV and 2 Somuas.

Title: 28mm French Somua tank?
Post by: Paul Hicks on February 12, 2008, 05:30:49 PM

Dom we might have one in stock I will ask Si to check tonight.

Paul

Title: 28mm French Somua tank?
Post by: Driscoles on February 12, 2008, 06:01:17 PM

Dom !

Green Knight is making a huge Rapid Fire ( 15mm )  game at the Kiel Do or Dice on March 8th. He will play Normandy landing sector Sword Beach.
He told me yesterday that the germans used Somua tanks. I was pretty surprised when he told me that cuz I didnt know that.

Cheers
Björn

Title: 28mm French Somua tank?
Post by: dominic on February 12, 2008, 06:38:49 PM

Thanks Paul.  I went to your website first but couldn't find it.  Let me know.

Bjoern, I look forward to the Tactica next week!

Title: 28mm French Somua tank?
Post by: axabrax on February 12, 2008, 10:53:52 PM

Check out Chieftain Miniatures. Crouchie's stuff is excellent and he has a number of tanks, aside from the Somua, that would have been captured and used by the Germans in the West--including the P16 Schneider tractor tank!

http://www.chieftainmodels.co.uk/

(Go to Catalog > France 1940)

Title: 28mm French Somua tank?
Post by: SgtPerry on February 13, 2008, 09:10:32 AM

I've got AGNM's one!

http://perrysheroes.free.fr/spip.php?article25

(http://perrysheroes.free.fr/IMG/jpg/S35Ge1_1.jpg)

Olivier

Title: 28mm French Somua tank?
Post by: SgtPerry on February 13, 2008, 09:15:23 AM

And here's a picture of US Paras near a PzIII and a S-35

(http://pagesperso-orange.fr/midgard/ww2/nzwm/parasntanks.jpg)

Title: 28mm French Somua tank?
Post by: dominic on February 13, 2008, 09:30:46 AM

Nice pics! :D