Bolt Action: Chindits sets! More WWII vehicles making a return! Preview of W.I.P. 28mm Churchill!

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**BrookM**

Chindits attack!

This comprehensive range of British jungle fighters will be released over the course of the next next couple of months. If you can’t wait and want to save yourself some of your hard-earned take a good look at these great offers. Even though some of these miniatures won’t be available for a month or two anyone buying these deals will get them straight away!
Chindits Boxed Set:

Boxed set containing 20 metal miniatures including a mule!

- Command: Officer with Thompson SMG, Sergeant with M1 Carbine, Medic and radio operator. 2-man 2” mortar team.
- 10-man Section: 2x NCO with M1 carbine, 2-man Bren Gun team, 6 Chindits with Lee Enfield rifles.
- 2 Burmese scouts
- Mule and handler
- Random wounded Chindit

Pre-order yours here!

Get your jungle campaign off to a great start with our Chindit Raiders or Orde’s Horde deals. These provides you everything you need to infiltrate deep into the green inferno…

Chindit Raiders:

- 2x Chindit Box Sets
- 1x Chindit Characters Pack
- 1x Chindit Specialists
- 1x Chindit’s Vickers HMG Team
- 1x Chindit’s 3″ Mortar Team
- 1x Close Quarter Fighters
- 1x Mule Team

Get this complete army for £80 – giving you the mule team for free!

Orde’s Horde:

3x Chindit Box Sets
1x Chindit Characters Pack
2x Chindit Specialists
2x Chindit’s Vickers HMG Team
2x Chindit’s 3″ Mortar Team
1x Close Quarter Fighters
3x Mule Team
1x Jungle Tufts

Get this complete army for £130 – saving you £11.99 on buying them individually!

Re-Released: More Bolt Action Resin Vehicles!

We’re accelerating the release of our Bolt Action resin vehicles this week with a real mixed bag! Take a look at what’s back on sale here…

A type 1124 Soviet armoured boat. This is a resin and metal kit requiring extensive assembly.

Based on the classic Soviet riverine vessel, the Bolt Action BK1124 is a floating tank. The Soviets used the bronekaters (armoured boats) to penetrate deep into estuaries and river systems to provide a platform for amphibious assaults and also supportive firepower.

These boats were designed to be carried from river to river on special carriages on armoured trains! Now there is a scenario!

THis craft is perfect for adding a few of our Bolt Action Soviet Naval troops to – there’s even a special offer to allow you to pick up both together…

German King Tiger Tank! A whopping great beast of a tank. The mightiest of the mighty. This monster does not belong anywhere near a 28mm wargames table, but you know you need one. Or maybe three!

Stick one down as an objective, maybe with engine trouble, and see if you can damage the daddy. Or, be cunning and place it down instead of your PzIII, in the Normandy bocage. The enemy will be thinking every tanks a tiger anyway. Just transpose the models when they get close enough to work it out for themselves.

Panzernest: These fortified and pre-fabricated machine gun posts were used all over the European Theatre and along the Russian Front especially in and around Germany. Most often they were brought into place by horse and cart and they could be bad news for any Allied or Russian patrols which happened to run across them under camouflage.

The M8 Armoured Car saw extensive service with the American army in Europe and the Far East. It also saw service with both British (who nicknamed it ‘Greyhound’ due to it’s high speed) and Canadian armies – especially in the Italian theatre.

Although thinly armoured the M8 was very fast and armed with a 37mm gun and co-axial .30 Cal MG. This popular armoured car was still in active service right up to 1995!

The armoured Sd.Kfz 251 half-tracks (more commonly known as ‘Hanomags’) were issued to the best-equipped Panzer Grenadier divisions, enabling Germany’s elite armoured infantry to keep up with the speeding Panzers.

They fought on all fronts – from the invasion of France, across North Africa, from the Russian front to the climactic battles across Europe and the fall of the Third Reich.

Popular with their crews, they gave speed and protection from small arms fire and shell splinters in the final approach to combat, enabling the squad to disembark close to the target whilst the Hanomag’s machine gunner gave suppressing fire.

Warlord Games’ Hanomag is ready for action – “Raus!”

This boxed set contains a classic late war half track in standard format. The model also comes with two MG42s, a gun shield, a rear AA mount and a gunner model.

Preview: Bolt Action Churchill

Many of you have asked us to add more British vehicles to our Bolt Action WWII range to complement our new plastic British infantry. Your prayers have been answered in the shape of the Churchill!

Ah the Churchill tank. Heavy, plodding, often undergunned – yet truly iconic! Soon, you too will be able to field one of more behemoth tanks of WWII alongside your brave British infantry. It might breakdown when you least expect it, but at least you’ll have a nice semi-mobile bunker to work with!

The WIP photos shown here clearly show off the crisp detail of the uniquely longitudinal chassis, right down to the rivet. Patience chaps – this one’s still being worked on, but soon, soon…

**insaniak**

The greyhounds are sweet... I want some for Ork Buggies...

**Brother SRM**

Any pictures of the Chindits themselves? I'd love to see some minis.

**BrookM**

All that's floating around right now are a few WIP shots of them: http://www.warlordgames.co.uk/?p=9369

**Death By Monkeys**

If you'll notice on the page that BrookM linked to, there's a logo for Bolt Action's Figure Head Optional Head System. I contacted Bolt Action as I'd really love to get a pack of their Chindit heads much like you can get packs of heads from West Wind Games or Pig Iron. I was told that while they would eventually like to be able to sell heads separately that way, they don't have plans to do so yet.

**BrookM**

Sadly the only ones they have on sale as of right now are Waffen-SS Handschar heads:

**Empchild**

Hrmmm I forsee some people converting some great looking gurka's with these.

**Jon Touchdown**

I am loving the M8s how would they compare in size to a chimera?

**BrookM**

Sadly I'm still waiting for my Bolt Action STuG III to arrive, but they are smaller overall. The models are less heroic and more truescale 28mm models.

here's a comparison of several companies, the Bolt Action model is the second human model on the right:

**Specs**

I want that churchill.

**Snord**

Good stuff. It looks as though they've gotten much better at vehicles - I had a couple of their early (all-metal) efforts, and they were pretty bad. I'd be interested to hear what you think of the StuG when it arrives.

I really liked this tagline:

This monster does not belong anywhere near a 28mm wargames table, but you know you need one. Or maybe three!

It's absolutely true. GW should try this line when flogging big vehicle kits, instead of the rather OTT stuff that appears under the Stormraven and Furioso on their site.

To anyone who's looking these for other purposes - remember that Tamiya do a range of 1:48 scale vehicles which are just about right for 28mm wargaming. That range includes the M8 Greyhound and the M20 utility vehicle. And they do a rather nice King Tiger.

**Kilkrazy**

The Tamiya 1/48 range is lovely and expanding all the time, great for WW2 skirmish.

I prefer 1/35th scale models for 40K vehicles, though.