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Hey All,

Looking to build a new army for WW2 and was wondering if there had ever been any consideration towards the Dutch army in 1940? The 2 types of Dutch armored cars would be an interesting addition as well as infantry which! could also work for Romanian infantry since they wore the Dutch helmet as well and at this scale the minute differences in uniforms would not really be an issue, just paint them khaki instead of the Dutch gray.
Just a thought .

Romanian Infantry and Heavy Weapons are due out in December. I don't know enough about the Dutch in WWII to say, but might these suffice for the infantry portion?

ferret701 wrote: I don't know enough about the Dutch in WWII ...

Well, at least one of us is willing to do the hard work of researching Dutch WW2 weapons!


Mk1 doing primary research into the history of Dutch armor in WW2

It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.

BTW - one brownie point to the first person to identify this Dutch army tank of WW2.

CTMS Marmon Herrington by any chance?

Yes the Romanian infantry would d onicely in this scale, they wore the Dutch style helmet and both armies used the mannlicher style rifles, just paint the Romanians khaki and the Dutch their shade of grey.
As for vehicles I was thinking the DAF-36, 38, 39 armored cars.

The tank is a Marmon herrington light tank if I'm not mistaken.

kiasutha wrote:CTMS Marmon Herrington by any chance?

Grizzly wrote: The tank is a Marmon herrington light tank if I'm not mistaken.

Wow. I'm impressed. Very good!

Not exactly a commonly known piece of kit. 'Tis indeed a Marmon Herrington. Rare beasties, they were, even in their day. Scarce as an honest man in professional sports, these days.


Enjoy a couple brownies on me.

(Homer Simpson voice-over...)

Mmmmmmm... brownies!



Regards,
Tom Stockton
(who would love to see the Simpsons movie, but will probably wait to rent the DVD so he will have more money to purchase micro armor with!)

Grizzly wrote:Yes the Romanian infantry would d onicely in this scale, they wore the Dutch style helmet and both armies used the mannlicher style rifles, just paint the Romanians khaki and the Dutch their shade of grey.
As for vehicles I was thinking the DAF-36, 38, 39 armored cars.

The tank is a Marmon herrington light tank if I'm not mistaken.

Although at this scale Romanian infantry would be indistinguishable from Dutch, the armored cars are a bit of a problem. The Dutch had 2 armored car squadrons with Swedish-built Landsverk armored cars, the M.36 and M.38 (a dozen of each type). The Dutch-designed and built DAF M.39 armored cars were still fitting out on May 10, 1940 and most had not yet had their armament fitted. The Dutch also had 5 tiny Vickers Carden Loyd Mk.VI machinegun carriers.

A ton of info on the 1940 Dutch Army, it's weapons and the campaign in general can be found here:

http://www.waroverholland.nl/index.php? ... dex_1.html

Great source for TO+E info here:

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/1247/

And some nice photos of re-enactors here (both 1940 Dutch and 1941-42 KNIL [Dutch East Indies]):

http://www.livinghistory.nl/

Although I envy Mk.1 his Marmon-Herrington experience, it is sadly of little relevance to the 1940 Dutch Army. Ordered for the KNIL in the Dutch East Indies, they were too late to be delivered before the Japanese arrived. They served in the Dutch West Indies (Surinam in particular) and a couple of Central American armies instead. More on them here:

http://www.overvalwagen.com/

http://www.geocities.com/marmonherrington/

David