| WWII Italian Army |
| Tanks Artillery Infantry Soft Skin Vehicles |
Armour CinC M13/40 A fine model, but the barrels are fairly weak... ...and the H&R Version. It looks OK at a distance, but close up, it really is fairly marginal. GHQ Carro Commando and Semovente da 75/18 Easily one of my all-time favorite models. H&R Semovente da 47 Early war 47mm AT gun armed tank destroyer CinC AB41 |
Artillery 100mm Obise with SPA TL37 Prime Mover An excellent model from GHQ, but fairly pricey with only 2 towed guns, 2 deployed guns, and 2 small trucks per pack. Autocannone 65/17 su Morris This is the common Italian 65mm infantry gun mounted on a Morris (captured?) truck chassis. Made by Armstrong models, there are at least three variants, with the crew in different poses and the gun aimed in a different direction. Autocannone 102/35 su CM50 This is a rather unique model from Armstrong Models. Its an Italian 102mm naval gun on a self-propelled chassis, used for coastal defense, and ultimately pressed into wider service. A very interesting and well detailed model. H&R Lancia 3RO 90mm SP Gun A self-propelled 90mm gun on a truck chassis. There is a GHQ version of this as well that I intend to get. Overall, not a bad model. |
Infantry The following shots are all of Italian infantry from GHQ. I'm far more impressed with these models than I am with their moderns (which are good, don't get me wrong). The wide variety of weapons and poses looks great, and paints up nicely. I do intend to mount these eventually, but I'm waiting for another 300 stands to come in from Wargames Accessories. These are riflemem along with an officer Breda Light Machine Guns and a spotter Breda 8mm Machine Gun teams Grenade Thrower, Rifleman (middle), and Submachinegunner Brixia 45mm Mortar (really more of a grenade launcher) These are the models mounted up on stands |
Soft Skin Vehicles Dovunque-Viberti Radio truck Also from Armstrong Models |