Manta Figurines has sent Armorama news of the future releases with one being a modern French Trooper and a World War Two GI Squad Leader.

These products coming up for release from Manta Figurines features a French Mountain Trooper, Minimi Gunner, 27e BCA, Afghanistan 2009 due for release in September and a U.S. infantry Squad leader, Normandie 1944, due for release in October with both being 1/35th scale resin figures. Here is the information as supplied by Manta Figurines;

MF 35-03 - French Mountain Trooper, Minimi Gunner, 27e BCA, Afghanistan 2009
This soldier of the famous French mountain troops fought in Afghanistan in 2009 where his unit, the 27e BCA (27e Bataillon de Chasseur Alpin), was engaged in the Alasay valley in reinforcement of the American forces securing the Kapisa province. This elite trooper, a Minimi gunner, is wearing a T3 twill , an MSA Gallet body armour assault vest with MOLLE system allowing him to carry a good amount of various ammo pouches for his gun (some 100 rounds pouches in satchels and special stripper clips); a camelback and personnals purposes carried in his backpack. So, he is armed with the FN Minimi Para (french modification) equipped with a hand grip and an ISTC strap (for the latter, the part which runs from the soldiers’s left shoulder to the the gun will have to be made in plastic strip or metal foil).

MF 35-04 - U.S. infantry Squad leader, Normandie 1944