Monday, 12 March 2012

Italian 149/40 gun

In a few spare minutes last week I assembled this 'Waterloo 1815' kit of a WW2 Italian 149mm heavy gun.  The parts are beautifully moulded in hard plastic and went together easily.  The nine crew figures are a delight and even if you don't want the gun it may be worth buying the set for these chaps alone.  The crew are dressed for service in Africa, so will fit in nicely with most of my existing Italian troops.  More pics when I get round to the painting.
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13 comments:

  1. Don M12 March 2012 at 15:02

    that is very nice, can tell how clean the casting is, and the crew is excellent!

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  2. Tim Gow12 March 2012 at 15:58

    Don M
    I hardly need to tell you that my games table is now covered with 20mm Italians!

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  3. Paul12 March 2012 at 19:06

    That gun is huge! A very nice looking piece of hardware.

    My Italians are being pushed back until I get my ring around some bathroom revamp...There goes my pocket money!

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  4. Chris Kemp12 March 2012 at 19:29

    That looks like a (not so little)Gem doesn't it?

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  5. Tim Gow12 March 2012 at 20:52

    It is huge - I put it down to the Roman fondness for monumental architecture. I too have a bathroom to pay for this year, but the gun came out of last year's defence budget.

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  6. Tim Gow12 March 2012 at 20:53

    Chris Kemp
    It is a table filler of the type you like. In other words, it'll be no damn use in a game...

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  7. SoA Shows North12 March 2012 at 23:50

    '... even if you don't want the gun ...'

    How could you not want a gun like that ...

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  8. Tim Gow13 March 2012 at 08:00

    SoA shows north
    I know Phil - but there are some odd people around who may not consider that a 149mm gun has a tabletop role. Very strange.

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  9. Mojo13 March 2012 at 09:46

    What a beast!

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  10. Tim Gow13 March 2012 at 11:51

    Mojo
    That's the thing about a lot of Italian kit - it does look good!

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  11. Tim Gow13 March 2012 at 22:38

    West1871
    I think it's safe to assume that yours will be finished to a rather higher standard than mine! Hopefully I'll get on with it at the weekend.

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  12. Geordie an Exiled FoG15 March 2012 at 23:01

    Is this kit also out in Italeria?

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  13. Tim Gow16 March 2012 at 08:04

    Geordie
    Not as far as I know, thought Italeri do a lovely 90mm AA gun.....

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