hi men !
could someone help me with a good choice of figures for my tiger 1 1944 normandy.i'm pretty new to axis wwII and would like to add a crew to my dml tiger1(6406).
any suggestions will be greatly appreciated
neil

This kit comes to mind.
http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/figures/dragon/dr6214.htm

Cheers

THANK'S TOKE
ive ordered a set from hannant's
neil

Hi Neil ...That's a real nice set of figures but are more at home in 1943 ...The overalls were not very popular with the crews and were superceeded by two piece camo uniforms by 1944...Oh and this is for the SS units only ...Are you doing your Tiger HEER or SS? Types and styles are a little different even in the black uniforms ..Camo uniforms were rarely seen on HEER crews . Tamiya's tankers have both SS and army figures in their set ..

Rick

hi rich
the crew i want are for my tiger 1 "3.s.SS-PZ.Abt.101,normandy 1944" and i haven't really got to much of a clue of what all those numbers and letters mean ...........
thanks alot
neil

Third company, heavy SS tank battalion 101. Abteilung was the term applied to a formation equivalent to an American tank battalion, so a Schwere Panzer Abteilung was a heavy tank battalion. That unit lost all of its Tiger tanks in the collapse of the German front in August, 1944, and was reformed with 45 new King Tigers as the SS 501st. It went on to fight in the Ardennes offensive and later against the Soviet onslaught in in Hungary.

I also have this set, purchased some time ago.

It's a bit ass about face I know, choosing a tank to fit the figures, but given the unit these figures are depicting, time period etc. what tanks would they have been equipped with ? By the way Terry marks them as 1944 but the box indicates 1943.

Thanks

Alan

Those figures are great for anything around the Kursk period ...Panzer IV G ...Panther D(I know SS had no Panthers at Kursk but after that)...Tiger I ....Stug III G ...you get the picture but SS crews..

Rick

thank's for the help.
ive bought the dragon dragon figures, but the report on pmm says that the caps look wrong on the figures so ive also ordered some hornet heads with peak caps to go with them...
so now all ive got to do is figure out how to paint the figures
thanks alot
neil

(ive only put three pints as its a weekday)