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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?

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]

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?

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

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

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.

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

Schwerepunkt

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

Regards

Steve