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Post by Forum Admin on Oct 17, 2018 8:24:26 GMT
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Post by aggiejohn on Oct 17, 2018 13:28:35 GMT
Neat first comment. They look really good. Can't wait to add them to my WWI set.
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Post by Andrea Varese on Oct 18, 2018 19:10:28 GMT
2 little considerations
The first cap seams to be autrian not italian .
The french mg was not so easy to find on the battlefield , was more used the twin barrel villar-perosa aircraft mg (1914)used on tripod or by the arditi SF as lmg
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Post by stevo0113 on Oct 19, 2018 5:30:07 GMT
Nice looking figures not really my era but I like them a lot
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Post by waynew on Oct 19, 2018 17:23:47 GMT
When I think it was Airfix WW1 figures that really got me into this scale (because there were really just no 1/32 scale WW1 figures at the time) - seeing sets like these makes me want to jump back in.
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Post by zirrian on Oct 20, 2018 8:13:20 GMT
What about a loader for the MG? Otherwise they look mighty fine, looking forward to them.
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Post by Ironsides on Oct 20, 2018 13:26:55 GMT
What about a loader for the MG? Otherwise they look mighty fine, looking forward to them. The loader is there the fiat revelli mg uses a box mag not a belt... |
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Post by Pat on Oct 20, 2018 18:27:44 GMT
Is the first figure supposed to load the mortar?
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Post by Ironsides on Oct 20, 2018 21:54:15 GMT
Is the first figure supposed to load the mortar? Hes holding the bomb basically a cylinder without fins fits on the spigot base its a common type and as you imagine none to accurate... battlefields are still littered with remains of them...
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Post by Pat on Oct 21, 2018 18:14:42 GMT
Is the first figure supposed to load the mortar? Hes holding the bomb basically a cylinder without fins fits on the spigot base its a common type and as you imagine none to accurate... battlefields are still littered with remains of them...
Thanks for the reply Ironsides, I take it the figure is not yet completed because fins and warhead are still missing. |
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Post by Ironsides on Oct 21, 2018 19:20:08 GMT
Hes holding the bomb basically a cylinder without fins fits on the spigot base its a common type and as you imagine none to accurate... battlefields are still littered with remains of them...
Thanks for the reply Ironsides, I take it the figure is not yet completed because fins and warhead are still missing. It really is as simple as it looks, a tube of metal filled with explosive...
Lanciabombe (or Lanciatorpedini)"Bettica" range circa 200m, wire cutting and anti personnel, quick firing light and simple to use, used by Regular and special forces up to 1918 when it was generally replaced by the heavier Stokes mortar...
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Post by Pat on Oct 22, 2018 18:50:03 GMT
[/quote] It really is as simple as it looks, a tube of metal filled with explosive...
Lanciabombe (or Lanciatorpedini)"Bettica" range circa 200m, wire cutting and anti personnel, quick firing light and simple to use, used by Regular and special forces up to 1918 when it was generally replaced by the heavier Stokes mortar...
[/quote] So the weapon was really that primitive, googling for its inventor (an officer called Alberto Bettica) will yield more. Thank you Ironsides and HaT, I've learned something new. |
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Post by waynew on Oct 22, 2018 20:17:33 GMT
It really is as simple as it looks, a tube of metal filled with explosive...
Lanciabombe (or Lanciatorpedini)"Bettica" range circa 200m, wire cutting and anti personnel, quick firing light and simple to use, used by Regular and special forces up to 1918 when it was generally replaced by the heavier Stokes mortar...
[/quote] So the weapon was really that primitive, googling for its inventor (an officer called Alberto Bettica) will yield more. Thank you Ironsides and HaT, I've learned something new.[/quote] To me, that is one of the neatest things about the hobby - the fact you never stop learning; particularly since I've managed to hook up with collectors from across the globe and hear from their store of facts from different perspectives and information sources I never dreamed of. My love of history stemmed from the toy soldiers I played with as a boy and the two have been intertwined - it actually led to one of my vocations in life - teaching. It is a rare day I don't log on to one of the forums and learn something new; often about topics I considered myself well-versed on. |
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Post by Forum Admin on Oct 24, 2018 0:42:47 GMT
Makeup of set:  |
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Post by Graeme on Oct 24, 2018 2:03:31 GMT
The french mg was not so easy to find on the battlefield , was more used the twin barrel villar-perosa aircraft mg (1914)used on tripod or by the arditi SF as lmg I'm sure haT showed us line drawings of a figure with a Villar-Perosa, perhaps in another proposed future set of Arditti. |
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Post by Forum Admin on Oct 24, 2018 2:07:51 GMT
I'm sure haT showed us line drawings of a figure with a Villar-Perosa, perhaps in another proposed future set of Arditti.  |
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Post by barbierir on Nov 30, 2018 14:41:03 GMT
Very good looking! They would go well with Waterloo1815's new edition of its italian WW1 infantry. The first set was horrible but this should be expanded with new figures, I hope it will be an improvement. My only note is that italians never used the cauchat (except the corps sent to the western front) a villar-perosa would be more realistic
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