Just saw this on the TSOA site (Crisis '08)....

[Drunkendwarf]

When visiting the site for Crisis '08 today I noticed the giveaway figure for this year:

http://www.tsoa.be/html/crisis08_titelblad.htm

There are to many "must have" miniatures these days......

DJ

[joroas]

Nice mini.....

[Geudens]

Come to CRISIS 08 and you shall receive...

Rudi
Webmaster TSOA

[WillieB]

Sculpted by  the maestro, Paul Hicks of course....
It doesn't get any better than this my friends

[Paul Hicks]

Cheers Willie hope he does well for you.

Paul

[area23]

Who did he fight for?

Nice fig. I hope I can make it this time...

[Mainly28s]

So how could those of us who CAN'T get to Crisis get one?

[Johan]

we'll see if any are left after Crisis 08.

[cdr]

de Grunne fought on the Nationalist side, in may 1940 he flew one of the few Belgian Hurricanes, later he flew in the Raf (32 squadron) he was killed in action while flying a Spitfire with 609 squadron

[Geudens]

we'll see if any are left after Crisis 08.

No you won't..... 

Rudi

[WillieB]

De Grunne was in fact the top scoring, non-Spanish  ace in the SCW. He flew a Fiat CR32 . Before that he fought as an infantryman in the Falange, and it was only after he was wounded and in hospital that they found out he was a pilot.

As already mentioned he flew a Hurricane in the Belgian Air Force in 1940, but joined the RAF later.
There's a hint to some cloak -and dagger story in Portugal in 1941.