Bolt Action Soviet Infantry Plastic Box Set

£33.99

Formed from the Western Desert Force in 1941, the British 8th Army comprised men from across the British Commonwealth – British, New Zealanders, Australians, Indians and South Africans. Following early successes against the Italians in North Africa, the 8th Army suddenly faced a new, more deadly foe – the Deutsches Afrika Korps led by their mercurial commander, Erwin Rommel. Thus began a series of operations with Allied and Axis forces being pushed back hundreds of miles only to regain that territory and more with battles at El Alamein, Tobruk and Beda Fomm becoming legendary. With the Allied victory in North Africa the fighting soon encompassed Tunisia and then the very heartland of Italy itself.

Struggling against the oppressive daytime heat, choking dust and freezing cold nights in addition to battling their German and Italian opponents the 8th Army become more popularly known as the ‘Desert Rats’ – a nickname adopted from the 7th Armoured Division, a key component of the Western Desert force.

This boxed set contains a multitude of parts and options allowing you to field soldiers as diverse as British, Sikh, Punjabi, Mosselman or Scottish. Just the job to tackle Rommel’s Afrika Korps or Mussolini’s Italians!

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Description

These are the men who fought ferociously to defend Mother Russia from the German invasion of 1941 through to the fall of Berlin in 1945. Simple peasant soldiers, they were taught to obey orders and do as they were told. Their life was hard and their battles probably unequalled in history for scale and suffering.

The Russian divisions grew from a disorganised mass to a fully capable and experienced force of modern infantry in just a few short years, a deadly weapon tempered in the cauldron of battle against the German invaders.

“Quantity has a quality of its own” said Joseph Stalin, alluding to the huge numbers of men he could put into the field. Well-equipped with simple, solid weaponry the Soviet soldier was a terror in attack and the very devil in defence as the legendary sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad hold in stark testimony.

This box gives you a platoon of grim Russian infantry with a variety of equipment and weaponry. Assemble your men, fix bayonets, look to your front and don’t let the Commissar see you lag behindǃ

Soviet Infantry contains:

  • Enough plastic components to make 40 Soviet Union infantry miniatures
  • Round plastic bases (25mm diameter)
  • Background leaflet
  • A host of options to allow for different weapon configurations and command models
    • Weapons include:
    • Mosin Nagant rifle (scoped, with bayonet and without)
    • PTRD Anti-tank rifle
    • submachine guns (PPS-43, PPSh-41 and PPD-40)
    • Mosin Nagant carbine
    • DP-28 light machine gun
    • Tokarev semi-automatic rifle (and bayonet version)
    • Pistols
    • Captured Panzerfaust

Models supplied unassembled and unpainted

Additional information

Weight 0.283 kg
Dimensions 22.5 × 15.2 × 6.4 cm
CountryofOrigin

United Kingdom

CustomsCode

9503009500

CustomsDescription

Model Kit

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