{"title":"W. Britain Toy Soldiers \u0026 Military Miniatures","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePrefer to browse by era? See our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/pages\/w-britain-toy-soldiers-military-miniatures\" title=\"Organized W. Britain Collections\"\u003eW. Britain collector's guide, organized by Civil War, WWII, Napoleonic, Zulu Wars and more →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eW. Britain has been casting metal soldiers since 1893, when William Britain Jr. revolutionized the hobby with the first hollow-cast figure. More than 130 years later, W. Britain — now based in Chillicothe, Ohio — remains one of the most collected names in toy soldiers, producing finely detailed, hand-painted 1\/30 scale figures that span every significant era of military history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eBreagans carries the full modern W. Britain range: the American Revolution and War of 1812 series, the Clash of Empires French and Indian War line, the American Civil War Soldier Study Series (including the iconic Don Troiani collaborations), the Jack Tars \u0026amp; Leathernecks naval figures, World War I and World War II figures, the Zulu War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Ancients through Medieval ranges. Each figure is cast in solid metal, hand-painted in matte finish, and supplied in original W. Britain packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eW. Britain figures pair naturally with other collector lines such as King \u0026amp; Country and Thomas Gunn Miniatures at the same 1\/30 scale, making them a cornerstone of mixed-manufacturer dioramas. They are equally at home in a display case on their own: collectors value W. Britain for historical accuracy, restrained painting, and anatomical poise that ages well on a shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eWhether you are building a Gettysburg regiment, a Yorktown vignette, or a D-Day beachhead, the W. Britain catalog has a figure for the moment. Browse the full range below, or explore our period-specific collections (American Civil War, American Revolution, World War II) for scenes built across multiple manufacturers.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"american-civil-war-13-inch-mortar-and-4-man-crew","title":"American Civil War 13 inch Mortar and 4 Man Crew","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eIntroducing the ultimate addition to your collection of historical figurines - the American Civil War 13 inch Mortar and 4 Man Crew.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 5 piece set from W. Britain 31134 is a must-have for any history enthusiast or toy soldier collector.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrafted with intricate details and high-quality materials, this set features a 13 inch mortar and a 4 man crew, ready for battle. The accessories included add an extra touch of authenticity to this piece, making it a standout in any display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExperience the thrill of the American Civil War with this stunning toy soldier set, available now at Breagans.com. Don't miss your chance to own a piece of history and add a touch of elegance to your collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eModel: 31134\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Piece Set and Accessories\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eLimited edition of 500 sets\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W.Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633967825124,"sku":"31134","price":240.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/W.Britain_31134.jpg?v=1762534484"},{"product_id":"u-s-marine-drummer-1811-18","title":"U.S. Marine Drummer 1811 - 18","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 24 August 1814, as a British army marched on Washington, the American line at Bladensburg broke and ran — except for a body of Marines and Navy flotillamen under Marine Captain Samuel Miller and Commodore Joshua Barney. They held their ground, working their guns and volleying until they were flanked and overrun, buying time as the capital was abandoned behind them. A field musician like this drummer stood in that noise, beating the commands no shouted voice could carry — the pace of the march, the order to fire, the signal to hold. In the War of 1812 the drum was still, quite literally, the voice of the Corps in battle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain poses the drummer in the reversed colors that set field musicians apart — a scarlet coatee laced in yellow, a blue collar and trim, white crossbelt and apron, a tall plumed shako, and the rope-tensioned drum slung at his hip. Musicians reversed the regiment's colors so they could be picked out in the ranks, a tradition the modern Marine Band, \"The President's Own,\" still carries in its red dress. He beats for the young Corps beside the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-1798\"\u003e1798 Marine\u003c\/a\u003e, under the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-officer\"\u003eMarine officer of 1806-18\u003c\/a\u003e whose commands he relayed, and ahead of the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-nco-dress-uniform-1833\"\u003e1833 NCO\u003c\/a\u003e of the green-uniform years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 13032. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), solid metal hand-painted in a matte finish. Single figure with drum on a sculpted groundwork base. Supplied in original W. Britain packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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He also walks toe to heel allowing him to move with a quiet fluidity over any terrain. He advances at a slow pace using the wind and ambient forest noises to help muffle the sound of his approach. He lurks in the shadows, something he learned from predatory animals – staying out of brightly lit areas allows him to move without being seen. The dark paint on his face helps to break up his human silhouette, a highly effective technique for concealing one’s outline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1\/30 scale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatte Finish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 Piece Set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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This company played a crucial role in the American Revolutionary War, fighting in battles such as Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and Brandywine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 52nd Regiment's grenadier company was later incorporated into the 2nd Battalion of Grenadiers in 1776, and continued to fight in and around New York City. This private is depicted wearing the iconic red coat with buff facings and distinctive lace trim, featuring a 'red worm' and orange stripe. He also wears the recognizable bear-fur cap of the British grenadiers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 1\/30 scale set is based on the Soldier Study by Don Troiani and has a matte finish. It is a one-piece set, making it easy to display and admire. Add this historically accurate and detailed piece to your collection today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eModel: 16114\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBased on the Soldier Study by Don Troiani \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wbritain.com\/product-store\/52nd-regiment-of-foot-private-grenadier-company-1775---american-revolution\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.wbritain.com\/product-store\/52nd-regiment-of-foot-private-grenadier-company-1775---american-revolution\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e1\/30 scale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatte Finish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 Piece Set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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Still, a trained warrior could loose off 4 to 8 arrows in the time it took to reload and fire a single musket ball.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1\/30 scale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatte Finish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 Piece Set\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShips in 1 business day\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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The pose and equipment reflect the blend of traditional indigenous elements and European trade goods, such as the metal axe, which significantly impacted Native warfare tactics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eModel 16117\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1\/30 scale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatte Finish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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It threw bombs of between sixteen and forty-five kilos — the heaviest of them barely three hundred and fifty metres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive pieces: the mortar, two ammunition crates and two Americans in trench waders, which is the detail that tells you what they are standing in. One has the bomb in his arms; the other has the rod. W. Britain has sculpted the crates open, which is what a mortar position looked like when it was working. In a diorama, dig them in behind a \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/wwi-british-trench-section-no-2\"\u003etrench section\u003c\/a\u003e. The \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/montana-hats-artillery\"\u003eMontana Hats artillery\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-captain-harry-s-truman\"\u003eCaptain Truman\u003c\/a\u003e are the same war's American gunners, a few thousand yards further back and firing something much bigger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. 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Each figure is intricately detailed and made from high-quality plastic, ensuring durability and authenticity. However, please note that this set contains small parts and is not suitable for children under 3 years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith its weighted assortments, this pack offers a unique and diverse selection of figures, adding to the excitement and realism of the Civil War era. Whether you're a history buff or a toy collector, this set is a must-have for any enthusiast. Plus, with fast shipping, you can start reliving the battles of the past in just 1 business day. Don't miss out on this opportunity to own a piece of American history. Order your American Civil War Mounted Counter Pack today!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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From Guadalcanal to Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, that determination made the Pacific some of the most brutal fighting of the war, and it shaped the terrible calculus that led to the atomic bombings and Japan's surrender in 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe assortment brings six action poses in super-detailed plastic — riflemen firing and kneeling, a light-machine-gunner, a bayonet charge, and an officer with his sword raised for the attack — molded and painted, forty-eight figures to a counter-pack box. Unlike the boxed 1\/30 metal figures elsewhere in this range, these are an affordable play-and-display plastic tier, and their natural counterpart is the other side of the Pacific war, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/world-war-ii-us-infantry-48-piece-assortment\"\u003eWorld War II U.S. Infantry 48-Piece Assortment\u003c\/a\u003e. The two boxes together field both armies for a Pacific battle across a tabletop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 17829. Super-detailed painted plastic. A 48-piece assortment of World War II Japanese infantry in six poses, supplied in a counter-pack box; the pose distribution is weighted and varies from box to box. Choking hazard — small parts, not for children under 3.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43634249662692,"sku":"17829","price":144.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/WBritains_178291.jpg?v=1762534543"},{"product_id":"world-war-ii-us-infantry-48-piece-assortment","title":"World War II US Infantry - 48 Piece Assortment","description":"\u003cp\u003eA rifle platoon fought as a set of specialists, and this 48-piece assortment fields them all at once — riflemen advancing and firing, a grenadier winding up to throw, a submachine-gunner, a bazooka gunner, and a man swinging his rifle in the last resort of close combat. Molded in durable, finely detailed plastic rather than display metal, these are figures made to be handled, played with, and massed: a whole squad in a handful, or an entire battle spread across a tabletop. For a young collector starting out, a wargamer who needs numbers, or anyone who wants American infantry by the fistful, an assortment like this is the most economical way to put boots on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUse them to fill the middle distance of a large scene and let the premium metal figures carry the foreground — the same poses appear as W. 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In the Ardennes winter the towed tank-destroyer battalions paid dearly for that, and yet, gun by gun, they held the line they had to hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fifteen-piece set poses the M5 and its crew in the cold — men in winter gear laying and loading the gun, spotting, and passing the laid-out rounds. It's the anchor of a winter anti-tank position: pair it with its companion set \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/advance-to-the-rhine\"\u003e\"Advance to the Rhine\"\u003c\/a\u003e, the self-propelled \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-m18-tank-destroyer\"\u003e705th M18\u003c\/a\u003e that fought at Bastogne, and the paratroopers holding the town at \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/welcome-to-bastogne\"\u003e\"Welcome to Bastogne\"\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25145. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Fifteen-piece set — one 3-inch M5 anti-tank gun with crew figures in winter gear and ammunition, on sculpted groundwork bases. 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By 1945 the Army had largely concluded that a tank destroyer really needed to move itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fifteen-piece set builds the gun and its crew mid-action — the long-barreled M5 on its split-trail carriage with men laying, loading, and serving it, ammunition to hand. Set it as the dug-in anti-armor screen of a road-to-the-Rhine diorama, backed by the self-propelled guns it fought beside, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-m10-gmc-tank-destroyer\"\u003eM10 GMC\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-m18-hell-cat-tank-destroyer\"\u003eM18 Hell-Cat\u003c\/a\u003e, with the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/suppressing-fire\"\u003e\"Suppressing Fire\" M1919 Team\u003c\/a\u003e covering the position.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25146. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Fifteen-piece set — one 3-inch M5 anti-tank gun with multiple crew figures and ammunition, on sculpted groundwork bases. 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The gunners were the bomber's teeth, and knew every mission might be their last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands ready in a shearling-collared flight jacket draped with linked .50 caliber belts, leather helmet and Mae West, kit in hand. He rounds out a heavy-bomber crew diorama with a fellow gunner, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/ball-turret-gunner\"\u003eBall Turret Gunner\u003c\/a\u003e, a \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/heavy-bomber-crewman-1\"\u003eHeavy Bomber Crewman\u003c\/a\u003e, and their \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-a-a-f-bomber-captain\"\u003eBomber Captain\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10124. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768518803684,"sku":"10124","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10124Background2022MuseumCollection_E7FBD339D970A.jpg?v=1762536868"},{"product_id":"general-george-s-patton-1943-45","title":"General George S. Patton 1943-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore he was a legend, George Patton was a cavalryman, an Olympian, and a swordsman. He competed in the modern pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, designed the Army's last combat sword — the \"Patton Saber\" — and was wounded leading the fledgling tank corps in 1918. In 1943 he took American troops from the humiliation of Kasserine Pass to the conquest of Sicily, racing his Seventh Army to Messina ahead of the British. That same summer, in Sicily, he slapped two shell-shocked soldiers in field hospitals — an outburst that nearly ended his career and saw him sidelined before D-Day. Brilliant, driven, and volatile, Patton was never a simple man to command.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure shows him in his 1943 Mediterranean turnout — olive service tunic, khaki riding breeches and cavalry boots, overseas cap, a riding crop in hand and an ivory-gripped pistol on his hip. Set him among the Allied commanders whose orbit he strained: his chief \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-general-dwight-d-eisenhower\"\u003eGeneral Eisenhower\u003c\/a\u003e, his Sicily rival \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/british-field-marshall-bernard-montgomery\"\u003eField Marshal Montgomery\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-lieutenant-general-omar-bradley\"\u003eGeneral Bradley\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10119. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768536498404,"sku":"10119","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10119BackgroundPatton1943_9A2DACF80AFEF.jpg?v=1762536868"},{"product_id":"u-s-general-george-patton-winter-1944-45","title":"U.S. General George Patton Winter, 1944-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn December 1944 the enemy Patton could not beat was the weather. Low cloud over the Ardennes grounded the Allied air forces just when the drive to relieve Bastogne needed them most. Never a patient man, Patton ordered his Third Army chaplain to compose a prayer for fair weather, had a quarter-million copies printed and handed out to the troops, and told him to make it work. When the skies broke clear on 23 December and the fighter-bombers finally roared over the German columns, Patton was delighted — he reportedly had the chaplain decorated on the spot. It was pure Patton: audacity, showmanship, and a conviction that Providence favored the attack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure shows him bundled for the Ardennes in a shearling B-3 winter flight jacket and three-star helmet, the ivory-gripped Colt revolvers on his hip. Set him in a relief-of-Bastogne diorama beside the man he came to save, \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-general-mcauliffe-101st-airborne-1944-45\"\u003eGeneral McAuliffe\u003c\/a\u003e, the paratroopers of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/welcome-to-bastogne\"\u003e\"Welcome to Bastogne\"\u003c\/a\u003e, and the armor that held the town, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/m4a375-sherman\"\u003e10th Armored Sherman\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10118. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768552718564,"sku":"10118","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10118BackgroundPattonWinter_02F63F23692B7.jpg?v=1762536877"},{"product_id":"u-s-general-mcauliffe-101st-airborne-1944-45","title":"U.S. General McAuliffe 101st Airborne, 1944-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 22 December 1944, with the 101st Airborne surrounded and freezing at Bastogne, a German party came forward under a white flag carrying a formal demand: surrender the town, or face annihilation. The message reached Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, the division's acting commander — the senior man on the spot, standing in for a commander away in the States. His first muttered reaction, \"Aw, nuts,\" became the official reply, typed out and sent back: \"To the German Commander: NUTS! The American Commander.\" The baffled Germans had to be told it meant, roughly, \"Go to hell.\" The 101st held on until Patton's tanks broke through four days later, and one word passed into legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure shows McAuliffe as he looked that winter, in a fur-collared B-10 flight jacket and a star-marked helmet, sidearm on his hip. As the command anchor of a Bastogne diorama he stands over the men who held the ring — the paratroopers of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/welcome-to-bastogne\"\u003e\"Welcome to Bastogne\"\u003c\/a\u003e and their company commander \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/capt-dick-winters\"\u003eCapt. Dick Winters\u003c\/a\u003e — awaiting the relief driving up from \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-general-george-s-patton-and-willy\"\u003eGeneral Patton\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10117. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768560779492,"sku":"10117","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10117BackgroundMcAuliffe_9787DF2BB419E.jpg?v=1762536877"},{"product_id":"general-dwight-d-eisenhower-winter-1944-45","title":"General Dwight D. Eisenhower Winter 1944-45","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGeneral Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, in the winter of 1944-45 — the months of the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhine crossings, and the final Allied push into Germany. The figure wears the field-grade wool overcoat and the famous “Ike jacket” of the period, with the five-star insignia newly on his shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eW. Britains produces the Eisenhower figure in their World War II range. 1\/30 scale, solid metal, hand-painted in matte finish at the W. Britain studio. Uniform accuracy follows contemporary photographic references from Eisenhower's winter inspections of the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eSpecs: 1\/30 scale (~60mm) | solid metal, hand-painted matte | single figure | original W. Britain packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eA natural centerpiece for any WWII ETO command vignette. Displays well alongside the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/collections\/king-country-battle-of-the-bulge\" title=\"Battle of the Bulge Toy Soldier Collection\"\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country Battle of the Bulge Americans collection\u003c\/a\u003e and other 1\/30 scale WWII command figures. Popular with WWII collectors, Eisenhower admirers, and American supreme-commander completionists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eModel: W. 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They flew two fighters into the battle: the nimble, glamorous Supermarine Spitfire, and the sturdier Hawker Hurricane, which was actually more numerous and shot down more enemy aircraft than its famous stablemate. Between them, and by the narrowest of margins, they turned Hitler back from an invasion of Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands at dispersal in blue-grey uniform, leather flying helmet, yellow Mae West and flying boots — a pilot waiting for the scramble. Set him in a Battle of Britain airfield diorama with his best-known comrade, ace \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/douglas-bader-wwii-british-ace-1940-41\"\u003eDouglas Bader\u003c\/a\u003e, under his commander \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/lord-dowding-british-raf-air-chief-marshal-1940-41\"\u003eLord Dowding\u003c\/a\u003e and the man who named \"The Few,\" \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-k-prime-minister-winston-churchill-1940-45\"\u003eWinston Churchill\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10110. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768580309220,"sku":"10110","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10110BackgroundMuseumCollection_291D9DA7E047F.jpg?v=1762536886"},{"product_id":"usaaf-fighter-pilot-1943-45","title":"U.S.A.A.F. Fighter Pilot, 1943-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 1944 the American fighter pilot had two jobs: beat the Luftwaffe, then rule the sky he had won. Long-range escorts — above all the P-51 Mustang, which could finally shepherd the bombers all the way to Berlin and back — broke the German fighter force in the air over the winter and spring of 1944. After that, with the enemy driven from the sky, the fighters turned downward. Ranging over occupied Europe in P-47 Thunderbolts, P-38 Lightnings, and Mustangs, they strafed trains, trucks, and airfields until German columns could scarcely move by daylight. Air superiority, once won, became a weapon in its own right — one the Germans never managed to answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands ready for the flightline in an A-2 leather jacket and leather helmet, yellow Mae West and parachute harness, chute in hand, dressed to mount his P-38, P-47, or P-51. Set him in a fighter-squadron display with the war's top ace, \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/richard-bong\"\u003eRichard Bong\u003c\/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/usaaf-tuskegee-airman\"\u003eTuskegee Airman\u003c\/a\u003e, and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-a-a-f-heavy-bomber-crewman\"\u003eHeavy Bomber Crewman\u003c\/a\u003e whose formations the fighters escorted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10106. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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Yet because they were classified as civilians rather than soldiers, a WASP killed on duty received no military burial and no flag for her family, who often paid to bring her home. The WASP were not granted veteran status until 1977, more than thirty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure walks the flightline in a leather flight jacket and flying helmet, parachute pack in hand — a pilot heading out to deliver another aircraft. Set her among the barrier-breaking airmen of a USAAF display with the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/usaaf-tuskegee-airman\"\u003eTuskegee Airman\u003c\/a\u003e and a \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/usaaf-fighter-pilot-1943-45\"\u003eFighter Pilot\u003c\/a\u003e, in a program overseen by \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-henry-h-hap-arnold\"\u003eGeneral \"Hap\" Arnold\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10105. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768596594916,"sku":"10105","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10105Background2022MuseumCollection_F2EE0BAF00C0E.jpg?v=1762536895"},{"product_id":"usaaf-tuskegee-airman","title":"U.S.A.A.F. Tuskegee Airman, 1943-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Tuskegee Airmen had to win two wars at once. Trained at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute in a segregated army that doubted Black men could fly combat aircraft, they had to prove themselves in the air even as they were treated as second-class citizens on the ground. They answered with performance. Flying P-51 Mustangs with tails painted a conspicuous crimson — the \"Red Tails\" — they escorted heavy bombers deep into Germany and built a formidable reputation for sticking with their charges. On one 1945 mission they downed three of the new German Me 262 jets in a single day. The squadron earned three Distinguished Unit Citations, and its record helped push the U.S. military toward desegregation after the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands in an A-2 leather jacket and officer's cap, yellow Mae West and parachute harness, ready to man up. Set him in a bomber-escort display with a fellow \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/usaaf-fighter-pilot-1943-45\"\u003eU.S.A.A.F. Fighter Pilot\u003c\/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-a-a-f-heavy-bomber-crewman\"\u003eHeavy Bomber Crewman\u003c\/a\u003e whose formations the Red Tails protected, all under the command of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-henry-h-hap-arnold\"\u003eGeneral \"Hap\" Arnold\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10104. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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The remaining medics and a few volunteers worked on through it in cellars and a battered church, short of everything — plasma, instruments, morphine, even bandages — doing what they could until the corridor finally opened and help got through. Few jobs at Bastogne took more quiet courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands in jump uniform with Red Cross brassards and bulging aid bags, netted helmet low — \"Doc,\" ready for the next call. Place him at the heart of a Bastogne aid-post diorama, reaching the wounded of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-101st-airborne-infantry-wearing-raincoat\"\u003ethe perimeter line\u003c\/a\u003e, tied into the defense at \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/welcome-to-bastogne\"\u003e\"Welcome to Bastogne\"\u003c\/a\u003e under \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/capt-dick-winters\"\u003eCapt. Dick Winters\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25133. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768624873700,"sku":"25133","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/25133Background2022WWII_8110B0263B288.jpg?v=1762536904"},{"product_id":"u-s-marine-raider-1943-44","title":"U.S. Marine Raider 1943-44","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Marine Raiders were built to do what the Corps had never formally trained for — strike fast, light, and deep. On the night of 12 September 1942, Lieutenant Colonel Merritt \"Red Mike\" Edson's 1st Raider Battalion dug in along a low coral spine south of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. Over two nights General Kawaguchi's brigade threw itself at the line; the Raiders, worn down to a few hundred men, held what became Bloody Ridge and saved the airfield. Edson took the Medal of Honor. By the time this Raider's frog-skin utilities reached 1943, that fight had already defined what the battalions were for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain poses the Raider standing and alert, the M1928 Thompson held across the body with its 100-round drum fitted and a pouch of spare 20-round stick magazines on the belt beside a holstered M1911A1. The reversible M1942 utilities show their five-color jungle face — green and brown blotches meant to break up the outline under triple canopy. He drops straight into a Guadalcanal or jungle-patrol diorama alongside \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-m-c-lewis-chesty-puller-1941-50\"\u003eChesty Puller\u003c\/a\u003e, whose 7th Marines fought the same campaign, a \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-with-scr300-radio-1944-45\"\u003eMarine with SCR-300 radio\u003c\/a\u003e calling in support, and the rifleman \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marine-eugene-sledge\"\u003eEugene Sledge\u003c\/a\u003e of the later island fights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 13055. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), solid metal hand-painted in a matte finish. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Supplied in original W. Britain packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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The uniform looked simple, but to a sailor's eye it announced exactly who a man was and what he could do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands at ease in undress whites — the white cotton jumper with its black tar-flap collar and neckerchief, white trousers, and the stiff-brimmed \"Dixie Cup.\" Muster him with the ship's company in a pierside diorama alongside the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-n-sailor-in-whites-with-seabag\"\u003eSailor in Whites with Seabag\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-n-sailor-in-crackerjacks\"\u003eSailor in Crackerjacks\u003c\/a\u003e, under \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-n-admiral-chester-w-nimitz\"\u003eAdmiral Nimitz\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 13053. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768666161380,"sku":"13053","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/13053BackgroundJackTars_DCB5FF3B270A9.jpg?v=1762536913"},{"product_id":"u-s-m-c-lewis-chesty-puller-1941-50","title":"U.S.M.C. Lewis \"Chesty\" Puller 1941-50","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn December 1950, Colonel Lewis \"Chesty\" Puller's 1st Marine Regiment was part of the 1st Marine Division cut off at the Chosin Reservoir, surrounded by ten Chinese divisions in sub-zero cold. Told his command was encircled, Puller is said to have answered, \"They're in front of us, behind us, and we're flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us. They can't get away from us now.\" The Marines fought their way out down a single mountain road, bringing their wounded and their dead with them. It was the last of the campaigns that made Puller the most decorated Marine in history, holder of five Navy Crosses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain sculpts Puller in the field rather than in dress — M1 helmet with camouflage cover, utilities and field jacket, a pistol belt with carbine magazine pouches, one hand resting at his hip in the aggressive, barrel-chested stance that gave him his nickname. The figure stands at the center of the Corps' mid-century story and ties its clusters together: back to the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-banana-wars-1928-29\"\u003eBanana Wars Marine\u003c\/a\u003e of the 1920s where his career began, and across the Pacific island war he led, beside the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-rifleman-1943-45\"\u003eWWII Marine Rifleman\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-raider-1943-44\"\u003eMarine Raider\u003c\/a\u003e of Guadalcanal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 13040. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), solid metal hand-painted in a matte finish. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Supplied in original W. Britain packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768677531876,"sku":"13040","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/13040LRwbackG_62BB75C65E535.jpg?v=1762536913"},{"product_id":"u-s-m-c-pilot-major-gregory-pappy-boyington-1943","title":"U.S.M.C. Pilot Major Gregory \"Pappy\" Boyington 1943","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the autumn of 1943, Major Gregory Boyington took command of a scratch squadron of replacement and cast-off pilots in the Solomons and turned them into VMF-214 — the \"Black Sheep.\" Flying the gull-winged F4U Corsair against Japanese fighters over Rabaul and Bougainville, Boyington ran his personal tally toward the Marine record. On 3 January 1944 he was shot down over Rabaul and given up for dead, and the Medal of Honor was awarded in his memory. In fact he had been pulled from the water by a Japanese submarine and spent twenty months as a prisoner, emerging at war's end to receive the medal in person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain sculpts Boyington on the ground between sorties, hands on his hips in a cocky stance, leather flight helmet and goggles pushed up, the yellow \"Mae West\" life vest over his flight suit and a parachute harness cinched at the legs. He is the air war over the Pacific islands, and he bridges to the ground Marines his Corsairs covered: the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-rifleman-1943-45\"\u003eWWII Marine Rifleman\u003c\/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-raider-1943-44\"\u003eMarine Raider\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marine-eugene-sledge\"\u003eEugene Sledge\u003c\/a\u003e of the Old Breed, fighting on the islands below his dogfights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 13039. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), solid metal hand-painted in a matte finish. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Supplied in original W. Britain packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768685428964,"sku":"13039","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/13039LRwBackG1_A1208D6095FED.jpg?v=1762536921"},{"product_id":"u-s-marine-rifleman-1943-45","title":"U.S. Marine Rifleman 1943-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt 0900 on 20 November 1943, the first waves of the 2nd Marine Division ground onto the reef off Betio, a coral island in Tarawa Atoll barely two miles long. The tide was wrong; the Higgins boats hung up on the reef hundreds of yards out, and Marines climbed over the gunwales to wade ashore through chest-deep water and interlocking machine-gun fire. In seventy-six hours roughly a thousand Marines were killed taking an island most Americans had never heard of. Tarawa exposed the true cost of the island-hopping campaign and reshaped how the Corps planned every amphibious landing that came after it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain poses the rifleman on the move and looking off to his right, the M1903 Springfield slung muzzle-down over a marching pack. He wears herringbone-twill dungarees, the M1 helmet under a camouflaged cloth cover, canvas leggings over field shoes, and a cartridge belt heavy with clip pouches, canteen, and entrenching tool. He builds out a Pacific rifle squad alongside the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-raider-1943-44\"\u003eMarine Raider\u003c\/a\u003e, a \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-with-scr300-radio-1944-45\"\u003eMarine with SCR-300 radio\u003c\/a\u003e at his shoulder, and the rifleman-memoirist \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marine-eugene-sledge\"\u003eEugene Sledge\u003c\/a\u003e, who fought the same island war at Peleliu and Okinawa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 13018. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), solid metal hand-painted in a matte finish. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Supplied in original W. Britain packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768708137188,"sku":"13018","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/13018Background2022JackTars_EB4D495220E9F.jpg?v=1762536921"},{"product_id":"u-k-prime-minister-winston-churchill-1940-45","title":"U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1940-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinston Churchill became Prime Minister on 10 May 1940 — the very day Hitler's armies struck west — and within weeks France had fallen and Britain stood alone. Others in the government argued for seeking terms; Churchill refused, and turned the English language into a weapon instead. In a series of speeches now woven into history — \"blood, toil, tears and sweat,\" \"we shall fight on the beaches,\" \"their finest hour\" — he told a frightened nation that it would not merely survive but fight on to victory, and somehow made them believe it. That refusal to make peace in the dark summer of 1940 kept the war alive until America and the Soviet Union entered it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure captures him mid-stride with his walking stick, in a dark three-piece suit, bow tie and homburg, on a cobblestone London street. As the anchor of a British wartime display he presides over the men who ran the war — the architect of the air defence, \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/lord-dowding-british-raf-air-chief-marshal-1940-41\"\u003eLord Dowding\u003c\/a\u003e, whose airmen he called \"The Few,\" his field commander \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/british-field-marshall-bernard-montgomery\"\u003eField Marshal Montgomery\u003c\/a\u003e, and the Allied Supreme Commander \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-general-dwight-d-eisenhower\"\u003eGeneral Eisenhower\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10082. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted cobblestone base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768783306980,"sku":"10082","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10082BackgroundMuseumCollection_F7298C2E74D01.jpg?v=1762536930"},{"product_id":"u-s-n-corpsman-1944-45","title":"U.S.N. Corpsman 1944-45, No.1","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo a Marine, no one was more beloved than his corpsman — the Navy \"Doc\" who went ashore on every Pacific beach and crawled into fire to reach the wounded. Trained by the Navy and then run through Marine boot camp, corpsmen with the Fleet Marine Force shared every hardship of the men they served. Their danger was extreme: unlike in Europe, the enemy in the Pacific gave no protection to the Red Cross and often shot the men wearing it deliberately, so many corpsmen hid their markings and dressed like ordinary Marines to survive long enough to do their jobs. The Marines repaid that devotion fiercely — and a great many corpsmen came home with the Navy Cross or the Medal of Honor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure runs forward in Marine HBT utilities and a camouflaged helmet cover, his medical bag at his side — \"Doc\" moving toward a cry for a corpsman. He bridges to the Pacific battlefield of Breagans' Marine range: send him to the men he treats, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-rifleman-1943-45\"\u003eMarine Rifleman\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marine-eugene-sledge\"\u003eEugene Sledge\u003c\/a\u003e, in a beach-assault diorama under Pacific commander \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-n-admiral-chester-w-nimitz\"\u003eAdmiral Nimitz\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 13035. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768796053732,"sku":"13035","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/13035BackgroundJackTars_D1C7465F81A58.jpg?v=1762536930"},{"product_id":"u-s-marine-with-scr300-radio-1944-45","title":"U.S. Marine with SCR300 Radio 1944-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe thirty-pound SCR-300 strapped to a Marine's back turned him into the most important — and most hunted — man in the squad. The radio's whip antenna rising above the grass told Japanese marksmen exactly where to find the link between the rifle platoon and the artillery, mortars, and naval guns offshore, and on islands like Peleliu and Okinawa in 1944-45 radio operators were picked off deliberately. Accepted in 1942 and built by Motorola, the \"Walkie-Talkie\" was the first practical backpack voice radio, and nearly 50,000 were made. When a Marine assault stalled under fire, it was often a single operator's call that brought down the shells to break it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain poses the operator down on one knee with the handset to his ear, the SCR-300 riding high on his back and its antenna whipping overhead. He wears HBT dungarees and a camouflaged M1 helmet, web gear at the waist, and a holstered M1911 .45 on the hip — often the radioman's only weapon while his hands were full of the set. He is the coordinating node of a Pacific diorama: place him behind a \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-rifleman-1943-45\"\u003eWWII Marine Rifleman\u003c\/a\u003e and a \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-raider-1943-44\"\u003eMarine Raider\u003c\/a\u003e calling in support, with the rifleman-memoirist \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/marine-eugene-sledge\"\u003eEugene Sledge\u003c\/a\u003e alongside on the same Peleliu and Okinawa battlefields.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 13036. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), solid metal hand-painted in a matte finish. Single kneeling figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Supplied in original W. Britain packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768810045668,"sku":"13036","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/13036BackgroundJackTars_60C082ED457EA.jpg?v=1762536939"},{"product_id":"u-s-a-a-f-bombardier-england-1943-45","title":"U.S.A.A.F. Bombardier England 1943-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the length of the bomb run, the bombardier flew the plane. Through the Norden bombsight — linked to the autopilot — he took control from the pilot in the final minutes over the target, holding the aircraft steady while the sight computed the drop and released the bombs at the calculated instant. The Norden was among America's most closely guarded secrets; bombardiers swore an oath to protect it, and the device carried a charge to destroy itself if a plane went down. Its promise was pinpoint accuracy — a bomb \"in a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet\" — but the reality was humbler: at that altitude, through wind, cloud, and flak, precision was far harder to achieve than the slogans claimed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure walks out in a shearling-collared flight jacket, leather helmet and goggles, Mae West and parachute harness, kit bag in hand. He rounds out the \"front office\" of a bomber crew diorama with the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-a-a-f-navigator-england-1943-45\"\u003eNavigator\u003c\/a\u003e who shared the nose compartment and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-a-a-f-bomber-captain\"\u003eBomber Captain\u003c\/a\u003e, backed by the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/ball-turret-gunner\"\u003eBall Turret Gunner\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10076. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768838947044,"sku":"10076","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10076BackgroundMuseumCollection_A9B5DA25C79E9.jpg?v=1762536939"},{"product_id":"u-s-a-a-f-navigator-england-1943-45","title":"U.S.A.A.F. Navigator, England 1943-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eGetting a bomber to its target and back was a feat of navigation done without a single satellite to help. The navigator found the way by older arts: dead reckoning from airspeed and heading, pilotage by landmarks glimpsed through gaps in the cloud, radio bearings, and celestial fixes shot with a sextant through an astrodome. Hunched over his charts in a freezing, vibrating compartment, he kept a running position on an aircraft moving nearly two hundred miles an hour, correcting constantly for wind he could not see. The stakes were high: a bad fix could carry a formation over the wrong, well-defended city, or leave a crew lost over the North Sea with the fuel running out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands in his A-2 jacket and garrison cap, Mae West and parachute harness, hands on his hips between missions. He completes the \"front office\" of a bomber crew diorama — the officer team of the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-a-a-f-bomber-captain\"\u003eBomber Captain\u003c\/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-a-a-f-co-pilot\"\u003eCo-Pilot\u003c\/a\u003e, and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-a-a-f-bombardier-england-1943-45\"\u003eBombardier\u003c\/a\u003e who together flew and fought the aircraft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10077. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768852283620,"sku":"10077","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10077BackgroundMuseumCollection_F56A0524C583D.jpg?v=1762536948"},{"product_id":"german-88mm-flak-36-37-overall-grey-gun-and-carriage","title":"German 88mm Flak 36\/37 Overall Grey Gun and Carriage","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo gun of the war was more feared than the \"88.\" It was built as an anti-aircraft weapon — Flak, from Flugabwehrkanone — but its true fame came on the ground. In the North African desert, Rommel turned his 88s on British tanks and found that their high velocity and flat trajectory could kill any Allied tank at ranges where the tank could not even reach back. The lesson spread, and \"the 88\" became a byword: to a frightened tank crew, every powerful German gun was an 88. It killed aircraft, tanks, bunkers, and men with equal ease — and its barrel was adapted to arm the Tiger, the most dreaded gun on the most dreaded tank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe twelve-piece set builds the Flak 36\/37 on its cruciform carriage — two trails folding up, the other pair riding limber bogies for the move — with a seated gunner and ammunition, in the early-war overall grey. It anchors an artillery position: crew it with \"Preparing for Action\" (\u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/preparing-for-action\"\u003ethe gun crew\u003c\/a\u003e), lay it in with the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-artillery-officer-on-field-phone\"\u003eArtillery Officer on the Field Phone\u003c\/a\u003e, and traverse it onto the tanks it was so good at killing, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-m4a375-sherman-tank-6th-armored\"\u003eU.S. M4A3 Sherman\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25088. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Twelve-piece set — the 88mm Flak 36\/37 gun on its cruciform carriage with limber bogies, a seated crew figure, and ammunition, in the early-war overall-grey finish. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768876794084,"sku":"25088","price":380.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/25088BackgroundWWII_1ED8164547ABF.jpg?v=1762536948"},{"product_id":"german-88mm-flak-36-dual-purpose-gun-with-gunner","title":"German 88mm Flak 36, Dual Purpose Gun With 1 Gunner","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore the 88 was a tank-killer it was a sky-hunter. It was designed to reach high-altitude aircraft, hurling a time-fuzed shell nearly eight miles up to burst among bombers as black puffs of flak — the German word itself, short for Flugabwehrkanone, means \"aircraft-defense gun.\" As Allied bombing grew, the 88 became the backbone of the Reich's air defense: thousands ringed the cities and factories, fed by predictors that computed a bomber's future position and set each fuze automatically. A trained crew could unlimber the gun in under three minutes and put twenty rounds a minute into the stream overhead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe gun wears late-war three-color camouflage — the finish that replaced early overall grey — with a seated gunner at the traverse and ammunition crates stacked ready. Set it against the grey \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-88mm-flak-36-37-overall-grey-gun-and-carriage\"\u003e88mm Flak 36\/37\u003c\/a\u003e to show the war's two ends, crew it from \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/preparing-for-action\"\u003ePreparing for Action\u003c\/a\u003e, and aim it at the men it hunted — the American \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/ball-turret-gunner\"\u003eBall Turret Gunner\u003c\/a\u003e riding the bomber stream above. A flak position gives a diorama a rare vertical story: the fight was happening miles overhead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25100. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Multi-piece set — the 88mm Flak 36 gun in late-war three-color camouflage with one seated gunner figure and ammunition crates. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768883249380,"sku":"25100","price":380.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/25100BackgroundWWII_B23C6C8259CC6.jpg?v=1762536957"},{"product_id":"german-2-man-flak-crew-with-open-crate-high-explosive-shells-1942-45","title":"German 2 Man Flak Crew with Open Crate \u0026 High Explosive Shells 1942-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 88's genius lived partly in its ammunition. By 1944 German ordnance listed nineteen different rounds for the gun — eight high-explosive types, seven armor-piercing, and more — and the crew's skill lay in feeding it the right one. A time-fuzed high-explosive shell burst among aircraft; a capped armor-piercing round punched through a tank's flank. Colored markings told them apart at a glance, the yellow tips here flagging the HE loads. Each was a fixed cartridge weighing over thirty pounds, and a crew firing fifteen to twenty rounds a minute needed a steady chain of hands moving shells from crate to breech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth crewmen wear the first-pattern reversible winter uniform issued in 1942-43 — mouse-grey on this side, white on the other for snow — and each cradles a yellow-tipped HE round beside an open transport crate. Feed them to the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-88mm-flak-36-37-overall-grey-gun-and-carriage\"\u003e88mm Flak 36\/37\u003c\/a\u003e and pair them with the ammunition haulers of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/preparing-for-action-1\"\u003ePreparing for Action, No.2\u003c\/a\u003e to build the working supply chain behind a gun in action. In a winter diorama the open crate and scattered rounds read instantly: this position has been fighting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25135. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Two-figure set — a German Flak crew in first-pattern reversible winter uniform with 8.8cm HE shells and an open wooden transport crate. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768887443684,"sku":"25135","price":96.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/25135BackgroundWWII_A4D1862982E68.jpg?v=1762536957"},{"product_id":"luftwaffe-fighter-pilot-1939-45","title":"Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot 1939-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eLook at the yellow vest. For a fighter pilot in 1940, the English Channel was as dangerous as any enemy — a man who bailed out or ditched had only minutes in the cold water before it killed him. The bright kapok Schwimmweste, the \"Mae West,\" was meant to keep him afloat until rescue, and here the Luftwaffe was ahead of its foe: its Seenotdienst air-sea rescue service flew floatplanes and anchored rescue buoys in the Channel to pluck downed airmen from the sea. British crews, who had little of the sort in 1940, took hard lessons from the German example and built their own service to match.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pilot stands hands on hips in the classic flier's pose, the yellow Schwimmweste over his leather flight jacket and the blue-grey peaked cap — black patent peak, silver cap-cords and bullion Luftwaffe eagle — that marked him out on any airfield. He is the everyman behind the ace: pose him with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/adolf-galland-wwii-luftwaffe-ace\"\u003eAdolf Galland\u003c\/a\u003e, who commanded pilots like him, and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-luftwaffe-bomber-pilot\"\u003eBomber Pilot\u003c\/a\u003e he escorted, then set him against his Channel adversary, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/r-a-f-fighter-pilot-1940-45\"\u003eRAF Fighter Pilot\u003c\/a\u003e. Two airfields with one narrow strip of water between them make a natural Battle of Britain display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 10107. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Single figure — a Luftwaffe fighter pilot in flight jacket, yellow life vest and peaked cap. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768891113700,"sku":"10107","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10107BackgroundLuftwPilot_639F536E965B2.jpg?v=1762536966"},{"product_id":"german-volksgrenadier-in-parka-knelling-firing-stg44-1944-45","title":"German 26th Volksgrenadier Kneeling Firing StG 44, Winter, 1944-45 No.1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 26th Volksgrenadier Division was the German infantry at the gates of Bastogne. When the Ardennes offensive swept forward in December 1944, it fell largely to the 26th, alongside armored units, to surround the crossroads town and grind down the American paratroopers dug in there. Reformed after being shattered on the Eastern Front, the division had been rebuilt as a Volksgrenadier formation and handed a heavy allotment of StG 44 assault rifles to compensate for its mix of green replacements and worn veterans. Through the freezing siege it pressed attack after attack against the 101st Airborne — and, like the whole offensive, spent itself against a defense that would not break.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure kneels to fire his StG 44 in a camouflage winter parka and field cap. He is the German half of a Bastogne diorama — set him attacking the very paratroopers he besieged at \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/welcome-to-bastogne\"\u003e\"Welcome to Bastogne\"\u003c\/a\u003e, kept in ammunition by the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-volksgrenadier-standing-with-ammo-can\"\u003eVolksgrenadier with the Ammo Can\u003c\/a\u003e and supported by the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-grenadier-in-parka-kneeling\"\u003eGrenadier Firing StG 44\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25050. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single kneeling foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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Months later, implicated in the July 1944 plot against Hitler, Rommel was given a choice: a show trial, or suicide with a state funeral and his family spared. He took the poison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure shows him in a general's greatcoat with red lapel facings and the peaked cap and goggles he made his own, a field marshal's baton in hand. As the command anchor of the Axis range he bridges directly to his desert adversary, \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/british-field-marshall-bernard-montgomery\"\u003eField Marshal Montgomery\u003c\/a\u003e, and presides over the Normandy defense — the armor of the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/type-166-schwimmwagen-panzer-lehr-division\"\u003ePanzer Lehr Schwimmwagen\u003c\/a\u003e and the guns of the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-88mm-flak-36-37-overall-grey-gun-and-carriage\"\u003e88mm Flak\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. 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Despite facing ambushes and raids by American forces, the regiment remained steadfast in its commitment to protect the region from invasion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure of the 84th Regiment Officer embodies the courage and determination of British officers who led their troops with valor and resolve during this tumultuous period of conflict. With his commanding presence and resolute stance, he symbolizes the unwavering dedication of those who served under his leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a tribute to the bravery and sacrifice of the 84th Regiment, this toy soldier serves as a reminder of the indomitable spirit of those who defended Nova Scotia against external threats. Whether displayed as part of a historical collection or cherished as a standalone piece, it honors the legacy of those who fought to safeguard their homeland during a time of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eModel: 16115\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1\/30 scale\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatte Finish\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 Piece Set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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In British Regiments of the 18th century only the grenadier companies officially had fifers so the ratio was 10 drums to 1 fife. Like drummers, fifers were not always boys; some men spent their entire military careers playing the fife, showing the importance of that skill to the army.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir uniform’s reversed colors designated them not only as non-combatant members of the troops, but made them easy to be located by the officers. These standard conventions were customary for both English and American forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 1\/30 scale Matte Finish 1 Piece Set from W.Britian is a must-have for any history buff or military enthusiast. The Fifer 2nd Continental Army figurine captures the essence of this important role in the Revolutionary War. Add it to your collection or display it proudly in your home to honor the brave soldiers who used music as a means of communication and order in the midst of battle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eModel: 16092\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1\/30 scale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatte Finish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 Piece Set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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It is one of the small ironies of the late war: SS soldiers going into battle dressed in the camouflage of the ally that had just changed sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is a Waffen-SS soldier — the combat branch of the SS, formations that fought as some of Germany's hardest troops and also compiled a well-documented record of war crimes — standing and firing a captured Soviet PPSh-41. His smock is cut from Italian camouflage cloth, muddied and worn. Pose him with his squad-mate in the same fabric, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/waffen-ss-in-italian-camo-standing-firing\"\u003eWaffen SS in Italian Camo Firing 98k\u003c\/a\u003e, and cross him with the shared Soviet weapon of the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-infantry-nco-with-ppsh-41\"\u003eGerman NCO with PPSh-41\u003c\/a\u003e. A late-war diorama built on captured kit — Italian cloth, Russian gun — tells the story of an army improvising.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25119. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Single figure — a Waffen-SS soldier in Italian camouflage, standing and firing a captured PPSh-41. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43769980682468,"sku":"25119","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/25119_A_withbackground_1FA4810293A31.jpg?v=1762537001"},{"product_id":"german-helping-wounded-comrade-in-greatcoat","title":"German Helping Wounded Comrade in Greatcoat","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the winter of 1943 the German army was retreating and bleeding on every front, and its wounded paid a hard price for it. As units were pushed back, encircled, or simply overwhelmed, the orderly evacuation of casualties broke down; a man hit in the open often had no ambulance and no aid station within reach, only whatever help his own comrades could give. Getting a wounded soldier to the rear frequently came down to this — one man half-carrying another through the snow, both of them slowed and exposed, because leaving him was unthinkable. Whatever uniform they wore, the bond between soldiers under fire looked much the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe set pairs two soldiers in greatcoats, one taking the weight of a wounded comrade, their 98k rifles and steel helmets marking them as ordinary Landser of the line. It suits a winter-retreat vignette with the greatcoated grenadiers around them — the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-grenadier-in-greatcoat-kneeling-looking-up\"\u003eGrenadier Kneeling\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-grenadier-running-in-greatcoat-with-98k\"\u003eGrenadier Running with 98k\u003c\/a\u003e — and mirrors the same cost on the other side of the line, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-infantry-casualty\"\u003eU.S. Infantry Casualty\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25060. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Two-figure set — one soldier supporting a wounded comrade — on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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But it arrived late, in 1943-44, and never in the numbers to matter; German industry, hammered from the air, could not build enough to rearm the army.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure kneels to fire in a reversible winter parka worn white-side out over field grey, steel helmet low, StG magazine pouches at his belt. Group him in a winter defensive line with fellow parka grenadiers — the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-grenadier-in-parka-with-stg-44-pointing\"\u003eGrenadier Pointing with StG 44\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-grenadier-kneeling-in-white-parka\"\u003eGrenadier Firing 98k in White Parka\u003c\/a\u003e — laying fire across the snow at the advancing \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-infantryman-kneeling-firing-m1-garand\"\u003eU.S. Infantryman Firing M1 Garand\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25114. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single kneeling foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43770009387236,"sku":"25114","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/25114_in_enviroment_85ABA98669701.jpg?v=1762537010"},{"product_id":"german-grenadier-kneeling-in-parka-firing-98k","title":"German Grenadier Kneeling in Parka Firing 98K, 1943-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eGermany led the world in battlefield camouflage, and the reversible winter parka was one of its neatest ideas. Printed in a disruptive pattern on one face and plain white on the other, it let a soldier turn himself inside out to match his surroundings — white for fresh snow, mottled camo for bare woods, thawing ground, or a village of grey rubble. This grenadier wears the camouflage side out, blending into dark timber rather than snow. German camouflage clothing, pioneered in the 1930s and spread widely through the Waffen-SS and later the whole army, ran years ahead of the plain olive drab and khaki most Allied soldiers still wore — and it made a hidden man that much harder to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure kneels to fire his 98k, the parka's camouflage face turned out, steel helmet low. Pair him with his snow-white counterpart, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-grenadier-kneeling-in-white-parka\"\u003eGrenadier Firing 98k in White Parka\u003c\/a\u003e, and the automatic firepower of the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-grenadier-in-parka-kneeling\"\u003eGrenadier Firing StG 44\u003c\/a\u003e, holding a winter position against the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-infantryman-walking\"\u003eU.S. Infantryman, Winter\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25116. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single kneeling foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43770024624356,"sku":"25116","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/25116BackgroundFront_69FBEDDCF6BCB.jpg?v=1762537019"},{"product_id":"german-grenadier-in-parka-with-stg-44-pointing","title":"German Grenadier in Parka with StG 44 Pointing 1944-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe German rifle squad had always been built around its machine gun — the MG 42 was the squad's real firepower, and the riflemen mostly existed to feed it, carry its ammunition, and protect it. The StG 44 began to change that. By putting controllable automatic fire into the riflemen's own hands, it hinted at a squad where every man could lay down a burst, not just the gunner — the shape of infantry combat to come. A section leader with an StG, like this one directing his men into a firing position, could deploy real volume of fire across his whole squad. It was a glimpse of the future, arriving too late to save the German army from defeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure is caught mid-command, shouting and pointing his men on, the StG 44 ready in his other hand, in a camouflage winter parka and steel helmet. Deploy the squad around him: send the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-grenadier-in-parka-kneeling\"\u003eGrenadier Firing StG 44\u003c\/a\u003e into position and set the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-grenadier-running-in-greatcoat-with-mg-42\"\u003eGrenadier with MG 42\u003c\/a\u003e as the base of fire — against the American squad driven by the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-infantry-nco-shouting\"\u003eU.S. Infantry NCO Shouting\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25076. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43770035339492,"sku":"25076","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/25076BackgroundWWII_A871E824118EF.jpg?v=1762537028"},{"product_id":"waffen-ss-advancing-with-mp-40","title":"Waffen SS Advancing with MP 40","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong before camouflage clothing was common, the Waffen-SS was wearing it. While the German army fought most of the war in plain field-grey, the SS ran its own clothing development and issued printed camouflage smocks from 1938 onward — plane-tree, oak-leaf, blurred-edge, and finally the 1944 pea-dot pattern called Erbsenmuster shown here. Many were reversible, a spring-green scheme on one face and autumn browns on the other, turned inside out with the seasons. The smocks gave SS troops a distinctive silhouette and a real concealment edge, and their patterns went on to influence military camouflage design for decades after the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCaught mid-stride and shouting, the figure wears the pea-dot smock over field trousers with an MP 40 in hand — the compact submachine gun favored for the close, fast fighting the SS specialized in. Set him with the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-waffen-ss-in-italian-camo\"\u003eWaffen SS in Italian Camo\u003c\/a\u003e to show the two camouflage stories side by side, and with the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/waffen-ss-advancing-with-panzerfaust\"\u003eWaffen SS Advancing with Panzerfaust\u003c\/a\u003e to build a squad on the move. In a diorama the reversible smock lets you match the figure to the season — green for summer, brown for autumn ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25063. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Single figure — a Waffen-SS soldier in pea-dot camouflage advancing with an MP 40. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43770044186852,"sku":"25063","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/25063FrontBackground_83364577F9C66.jpg?v=1762537028"},{"product_id":"waffen-ss-grenadier-in-kharkov-parka-with-mg-42","title":"Waffen SS Grenadier in Kharkov Parka with MG 42","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe winter of 1942-43 was the low point of the German war in the East — Stalingrad lost, the front reeling — but in February and March 1943 the newly formed SS Panzer Corps struck back and retook the city of Kharkov in a sharp counteroffensive, one of Germany's last clean operational victories on the Eastern Front. The SS troops in that fight wore a reversible hooded winter over-parka, white on one face and camouflage on the other, roomy enough to pull on over battle equipment. Collectors and modelers have come to call it the \"Kharkov parka\" after the battle where it became a familiar sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShown from behind, the grenadier wears the grey Kharkov parka with the hood down and an MG 42 slung across his back, canteen and mess tin at his belt — a machine-gunner moving between positions. He belongs with the other Kharkov-parka SS figures: the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/waffen-ss-rifleman-in-kharkov-parka-advancing\"\u003eRifleman Advancing\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-waffen-ss-in-kharkov-parka\"\u003eGrenadier Getting Up to Move\u003c\/a\u003e. Unsling his gun into the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/hitlers-buzz-saw\"\u003e\"Hitler's Buzz Saw\" MG42 Team\u003c\/a\u003e and you have the weapon in action. A winter Eastern-Front diorama in white-and-grey is the natural home for all of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25069. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Single figure — a Waffen-SS grenadier in a Kharkov winter parka with a slung MG 42. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43770054017252,"sku":"25069","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/25069FrontBackground_38FE978115E51.jpg?v=1762537037"},{"product_id":"waffen-ss-rifleman-in-kharkov-parka-advancing","title":"Waffen SS Rifleman in Kharkov Parka Advancing with Caution","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Eastern Front was the war's great killing ground — a theater of such distance and scale that the Western campaigns look almost small beside it. Roughly three of every four German soldiers who died in the war died fighting the Soviet Union. There was often no continuous front line, only a fluid mass of advances and retreats across frozen steppe and forest, with partisans behind and a numerous, resilient enemy ahead. A rifleman moving forward in that country did so expecting fire from any direction, and \"advancing with caution\" was less a pose than the only way to stay alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rifleman leans into a wary step, rifle held ready across his body, the grey Kharkov parka bundled against the cold — a man reading the ground before he commits to it. He completes the Kharkov-parka group with the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/waffen-ss-grenadier-in-kharkov-parka-with-mg-42\"\u003eGrenadier with MG 42\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-waffen-ss-in-kharkov-parka\"\u003eGrenadier Getting Up to Move\u003c\/a\u003e, and falls in naturally beside the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/waffen-ss-grenadier-advancing\"\u003eGrenadier Advancing with K98\u003c\/a\u003e. A winter Eastern-Front diorama, white ground and grey figures, is where the whole group belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25071. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Single figure — a Waffen-SS rifleman in a Kharkov winter parka, advancing with caution. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43770064011492,"sku":"25071","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/25071SideBackground_8738C282285E1.jpg?v=1762537037"},{"product_id":"waffen-ss-advancing-with-panzerfaust","title":"Waffen SS Advancing with Panzerfaust","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Panzerfaust was a weapon of nerve as much as firepower. A single-shot, throwaway tube firing a shaped-charge warhead, it could punch through almost any Allied tank — but only at close range, thirty to sixty meters, and only once. That arithmetic turned tank-hunting into a test of held breath: the soldier had to stay hidden, let the tank grind to within a stone's throw, fire his one shot, and then kill it or run. In the close country of late-war Europe — hedgerows, forests, rubbled towns — a single infantryman could stalk and destroy a machine worth a hundred times his tube.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure advances in an autumn oak-leaf smock and camouflaged helmet, a slung 98k on his back and the Panzerfaust carried ready in one hand — a rifleman doubling as a tank-hunter. Pair him with the army's \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-grenadier-armed-with-panzerfaust-wearing-zeltbahn\"\u003eGrenadier Armed with Panzerfaust\u003c\/a\u003e, fall him in beside his SS squad-mate \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/waffen-ss-advancing-with-mp-40\"\u003eAdvancing with MP 40\u003c\/a\u003e, and point him at his prey — the American \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-m4a375-sherman-tank-6th-armored\"\u003eM4A3 Sherman\u003c\/a\u003e he was built to kill at knife-fighting range. A diorama of a tank ambush in close country writes itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25099. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Single figure — a Waffen-SS soldier in autumn camouflage advancing with a Panzerfaust. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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The catch was range: a Panzerfaust had to be fired from close, sometimes very close, so the user had to hold his nerve and let the armor come to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure stands ready with the Panzerfaust, a camouflage Zeltbahn — the versatile shelter-quarter that doubled as poncho, tent, and ground sheet — worn over his field grey, 98k slung across his back. Set him in a tank-ambush diorama with the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/panzerknacker\"\u003ePanzerknacker\u003c\/a\u003e, waiting for the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-m4a375-sherman-tank-6th-armored\"\u003eU.S. M4A3 Sherman\u003c\/a\u003e — the same weapon the GIs prized when they found it, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-infantryman-with-panzerfaust\"\u003eU.S. Infantryman with Panzerfaust\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25110. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. 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