Monday 23 March 2015

Home Front 1941: Fallschirmjager Light Artillery Piece

  Here is picture of fallschirmjager (German paratrooper) crewing a 7.5cm light howitzer as part of my FJ army for Bolt Action/Chain or Command. It is made by Black Tree Designs and I picked it up last year in the January sales. 
  From a painting point of view I prefer the Artizan Designs sculpting style to the BTD ones, but they are very comparable in terms of size/bulk etc, so work well together and the BTD range does fill in some of the gaps in the Artizan range, like this little cannon. 




  The 7.5 cm Howitzer was a very common gun in the German army and Luftwaffe ground forces. it was used by the FJ as it was light and easy to transport, often being towed with a Kettenkrad, which was a sort of half tracked motorbike light enough to be transported by plane (The Kettenkrad is on my to to list).

5 comments:

pulpcitizen said...

More great work mate.

Looking forward to seeing the whole force when done. :)

tim said...

These look great Rob!

I have a few BTD figures in my own WW2 forces and I mostly like them. There are a few odd ones - weird poses, odd equipment...

cedric said...

Well done. The fallschimjager are well painted. I seldom play gun in 28mm, seem strange at such a short range.

Rob Bresnen said...

I agree Cedric, but it is a nice model. And if the other guy is going to bring a tank...

Simon Quinton said...

These look fantastic mate.