Perrys 8th Army

[axabrax]

This is so awesome. There are already really good figs available for just about everyone in this theater already except the Italians and the Desert rats. (Even the Italian figs from Artizan are great if you like Pith Helmets and don't need much variety or special weapons.)  Can't wait! 

[Hildred Castaigne]

Excellent! I hope they make a good selection of surrendering poses for the Italians 

And I hope they make an Il Duce for the Eurovision.


Because that sketch is all I can think of when I see the greens for the Italians.

[carlos marighela]

Excellent! I hope they make a good selection of surrendering poses for the Italians 

No, I hear they are working on further ranges covering the British and Australian armies at Singapore and the US army in the Philippines.

(see it's not quite as funny a meme when you put it in that context)

[Hildred Castaigne]

Well, some Yanks for the Phillipines would be nice...

[carlos marighela]

former user,

 I get your general point about Eurocentrism but honestly the North Africa campaigns and the wider Mediterranean theatre are  hardly good examples. The overwhelming bulk of the combatant forces were European. The Italians didn't have large numbers of local colonial forces in the Western Desert, in large part because they had fought a very bloody and rather cruel campaign of elimination much of the local population over a twenty year period. The campaigns in Abyssinia before and after the outbreak are not normally considered part of the MTO, being some considerable distance from the Mediterranean. For the record, the bulk of Italian colonial forces there were either Eritrean or Ethiopian and if memory serves I'm not sure they made up the bulk of forces in the first conflict. By the way there are dedicated ranges for the Italo-Abyssinian war if you want them.

If you are going to lump the Syrian campaign into your definition of the Mediterranean theatre, which is quite reasonable, them you can't really remove Greece and Crete. Wholly European.  Of course you are also going to have to add all those Americans unless your model of the MTO suddenly ends at the start of 1942.

Naturally manufacturers make the figures they think will sell. I'm not sure you can really complain about Perry manufacturers in this regard.

As an aside I was organizing some minis last night and I realized that of my collection of moderns and Great War era I have more non-European troops than anything else.

[Bugsda]

(see it's not quite as funny a meme when you put it in that context)

Yeah, it is 

[Dave C]

We are looking forward to a desert summer at Offensive!

Just done a DAK Kubel, with desert tyres and crew to follow.

Bruce. I know FJ were in the desert but feel free to bring out an extensive range of Offensive DAK. Please. Pretty please!

Dave C
Suffolk

PS I can never get the hang of 'quoting'

[Damas]

Ooh, will this mean I can dust off my old Chieftian made Blitz buggy, Ford F30, Jeeps and Chevys and ready my LRDG for the DAK?  *girly squee*

[marcusluis]

Crete and the italian front are possibilities as well !!

[marcusluis]

Probably in resin... 

I'm being uncharitable. When I first saw the Brits a while ago, I was quite thrilled and still am truth told. One thing the Perrys do is completeness, so I wouldn't be surprised if plastic Italians and French appear somewhere down the line. I would be pretty stoked if they did too! Abyssinia, Syria, Greece, Libya, Madagascar, even Spain... almost endless possibilities and options! 

The DAK figures look great too, call me odd, but they are way down my list of things I would like to do though.
 
 
 

dont know if I'm wrong but the only spanish in ww2 were ths blue legion in russia??

[Hildred Castaigne]

dont know if I'm wrong but the only spanish in ww2 were ths blue legion in russia??

Perhaps he means using the figures for the Spanish Civil War, as opposed to Spanish in WWII.  

[Rob_bresnen]

Well I want to use them with Sikh heads for the British Army in India. I was thinking of using Gripping Beast Sikh heads, but I don't know if they will scale well yet (I hope so, or I am screwed) The Bolt Action Sikh heads are a poor second choice as they are expensive and only one head in three actually looks like a Sikh (very odd).

[WuZhuiQiu]

Or the defence of Hong Kong.

Singapore! 

[Arlequín]

dont know if I'm wrong but the only spanish in ww2 were ths blue legion in russia??

Perhaps he means using the figures for the Spanish Civil War, as opposed to Spanish in WWII. 

Yes... I was talking about the Italians. As they come for Spain from mid to late 1937 and with French helmets before that. Which is why I wanted plastic ones.

Well I want to use them with Sikh heads for the British Army in India. I was thinking of using Gripping Beast Sikh heads, but I don't know if they will scale well yet (I hope so, or I am screwed) The Bolt Action Sikh heads are a poor second choice as they are expensive and only one head in three actually looks like a Sikh (very odd).

From the horses mouth, it was said that there 'might' be some head packs in the future, depending on what they can't fit onto the sprues at present (as with the WotR figures and the 'European' heads). I wanted pith helmets, but I would imagine Indian and other Commonwealth ones might be more popular options. Time will tell on that though.

 

[Rob_bresnen]

Cool. I hope so. I love the way the Perrys do faces.