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WW2 British tankers and troops in Africa campaign (1/35)

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Posted by Keyworth on Friday, September 15, 2006 7:39 PM
Valiant Miniatures had several British 8th Army infantry figures as well as tanker figures from that theater.  I'm not sure if they're all still commercially available,but I see a good number of them on eBay from time to time.
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Posted by jgeratic on Saturday, September 2, 2006 12:49 PM
Ultracast has a desert tanker set as does Hornet and Warriors - some individual troops too.

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Posted by chris hall on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:18 PM

Airfix do a set of 1/32 Multipose  8th Army figures. They're better than the Tamiya ones of the same vintage, but neither are really up to today's standards. Here are some sprue shots:

 

 

If you can live with the difference in scale, the Tamiya 1/35 British Infantry on Patrol set is an excellent source of weapons and equipment. In the Tamiya range, the 1/35 Universal Carrier, 6 pdr anti-tank gun and 25pdr gun are good sources of figures. The figures with the 25pdr, in particular, scrub up quite well:

Cheers,

Chris.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 28, 2006 11:43 PM
Italleri had a set of Brit tankers, African service uniforms IIRC. Verlinden had a tanker or two as well, and so did Resicast. Of course Tamiya has a number of figures that came with their various Brit tank kits too.
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Posted by Avus on Monday, August 28, 2006 5:06 AM

As for troops Tamiya makes a set "8th Army Infantry" with six or eight figures mainly in action poses. They also make a set of ETA figures, if you feel like it you can "cut" their pants and give them high stockings.

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WW2 British tankers and troops in Africa campaign (1/35)
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:38 PM

Hey all,

I am after some brit tankers and troops from the north african campaigns

of WW2, at the moment i haven't had much success finding any thing arounf

either resin or plastic, anyone got a heads up on whats around.

 

cheers

Adrian

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