Italian heavy weapons pack question

[Thunder]

I've finally gotten around to painting up my WWII Italian infantry. There looks to be 3 different models of MG in the heavy weapons pack. A LMG, MMG, and a HMG. Does anyone know what these 3 weapons are supposed to be?

[Gort]

The LMG is a Breda Mod.30.
The HMG is a Breda Mod.37 (or maybe a Fiat Rivelli Mod.35).
The third item is not a machine gun but the Brixia 45mm Mortar. It's more like a semi-auto breech loaded grenade launcher, but the Italians called it a mortar.

http://www.war2.ch/4822/index.html

regards

Steve[/url]

[Thunder]

Thanks for the reply. There are actually 4 weapons in the pack. So 2 are definitely MGs. One is a mortar. What is the last one? The one that is clearly a mortar has a soldier sitting to the left of the weapon and another soldier gets glued next to him.. The last weapon has a single soldier sitting upright directly behind the weapon. Is this the 45mm mortar or were you referring to the other one?

[Gort]

If you follow the link in my post you will see pics of all the weapons in question. The Brixia is about 3/4 of the way down the page. GHQ screwed up by having the crewman sit behind the weapon instead of lying on top of it. What they mistook for a seat is actually a chest pad.

regards

Steve

[Thunder]

Thanks again. I can't believe I missed your link the first time. It has a lot of good pictures.

[Schwerepunkt]

Thank you, Gort for your wonderful website. I plan to obtain Italian forces and had a sample pack and could not identify the vehicle and artillery piece included. Your site has much information and will be invaluable for my dioramas.

[jb]

Gort, that is an excellent site on the ITs
Thanks!

[Gort]

Schwerepunkt

I'm happy that you found the site useful, but it's not my site - just something I found online.

Regards

Steve