New Stoessi’s Heroes Join The Fighting In World War II
September 8, 2017 by brennon
Stoessi's Heroes continue to bring us colourful characters from World War II with a new selection of releases from this month. Take a look at these new Allied characters...
Leading the way we have another of their painted characters here with the Canadian Highlander Sergeant, Harold. This model, in particular, is designed based on a photo from the period of a Canadian Sniper who would have been ranging forth to explore the enemy front lines. Here's the photograph...
...and as you can see he does cut a rather suave figure. Sticking with the Canadians we have another model with the Devil's Brigade Sergeant, Tommy Prince.
This fellow was Canada's most decorated native war veteran and was given nine medals during the period of World War II. He had a drastic impact on German morale as he would tend to sneak into the enemy camp and either steal their boots or cut their throats...you'd hope he was in a good mood when he arrived in the night!
Famous Brits
As well as the Canadians we also have some new British models like British Army Lt. Col. – John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming “Mad Jack” Churchill. You'll know this fellow if you've looked into World War II even just a little bit!
He fought in battle with a longbow and a broadsword and claimed that an officer without a sword wasn't properly dressed! He also recorded the last kill with a longbow during war against a German Officer in 1940.
His story after World War II is just as interesting as he went off to fight in a number of other war across the globe. He even used to throw his suitcase out of the window on the train home into his back garden as it was easier than carrying it home all of the way...quite a character.
Last but not least we have British Navy Beach Master & Captain Colin Maud.
This fellow was the Beach Master for the efforts on Juno during D-Day and commanded the destroyers known as Somali and Icarus during World War II. He also went everywhere with his dog Winnie and was well liked despite his old fashioned buccaneer appearance.
A great cast of characters and proof that reality is more interesting than fiction at times.
What do you think?
"He had a drastic impact on German morale as he would tend to sneak into the enemy camp and either steal their boots or cut their throats..."
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I LOVE these! As a fan of WWII, it is just so cool to see these peeps brought to life. What is interesting is that Captain Maud’s dog Winnie is based off of The Longest Day but I guess in real life Winnie was a German Shepard. As awesome as German Shepards are, the bulldog in the movie was perfect.
Great work with these sculpts!
Mad Jack would be a perfect addition to any Wierd War RPG game. Going to have to think about getting these.
These are great. Already own three of them (Uruquart, Sterling and “Pat” Johnson). These make fabulous characters for any Bolt Action army or CoC even more so. Besides, Thomas Stoesser, the man behind this supports a little charity for british army veterans called “Brushes vs. Demons” which is based in Wales. He supports the veterans wih miniatures to build and paint in order to overcome issues being brought home from their service in Iraq or Afghanistan. You also have the chance to directly donate when buying in the Stoessi webshop. Highly reccomend that!