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Author Topic: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release  (Read 3941 times)

Offline Helen

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BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« on: May 09, 2008, 07:54:45 AM »
Hi Folks,

New from BAM:

TMP Post:
http://theminiaturespage.com/news/492452/



Best wishes,
Helen
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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2008, 08:37:50 AM »
LEIG = Light Mountain Gun?

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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2008, 09:16:20 AM »
LEIG = Light Mountain Gun?

"Infantry Gun."

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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2008, 09:17:11 AM »
Leichtes Infanteriegeschütz.

Light Infantry gun is what my fumbling, useless, mostly-forgotten German is telling me. There was a mountain gun variant.
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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2008, 09:56:42 AM »
Leichtes Infanteriegeschütz.

Light Infantry gun is what my fumbling, useless, mostly-forgotten German is telling me. There was a mountain gun variant.

Oops I forgot to add the "Light" bit at the front  :` Thanks Poly  8)

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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2008, 02:17:21 PM »
My favorite german gun of the war. It is squat and ugly and you can drag it along through the whole war!

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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2008, 04:18:18 PM »
It looks very quite heavy for relatively little fire power. I mean just look at all that riveted ironplate.

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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2008, 05:43:49 PM »
A bit heavy on rivets and the scalloping on the shield is a bit overdone....

ttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/7.5_cm_Le.IG_18_CWM_1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/IG_18_01.jpg

No mistaking what it is though.

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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2008, 06:15:35 PM »
Yeah sorry about the heavy duty rivets, its a sod to get anything smaller without resorting to a microscope to place them!!! ;)

does make it easy to paint though, and if you don;t like the rivets, just file em all off.

cheers

Nigel H

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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2008, 09:01:05 PM »
I think it an very nice looking model and on it's own is making me think of re-prioritising my next projects!

I wonder if the rivets only look a little large 'cos it's a close up photo and actually "work" on the table.  I've often found that some features that look a little oversized look fine on the tabletop due to the weird effect looking at it from a player perspective has.

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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2008, 10:08:36 PM »
Yeah sorry about the heavy duty rivets, its a sod to get anything smaller without resorting to a microscope to place them!!! ;)

does make it easy to paint though, and if you don;t like the rivets, just file em all off.

cheers

Nigel H

Hey... Let's not detract from the fact that it is still a good model. If the worst thing that can be said is "the rivets are big", there isn't much wrong with it.

I'd buy it if I did WW2 and I'm sure the sales will speak for themselves..

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2008, 01:29:05 AM »
Usually written as leIG
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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2008, 11:28:06 AM »
@Jim Hale,

I'm almost sure it was used in the SCW as well and you ARE intersted in that period aren't you?
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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2008, 12:53:53 AM »
LEIG = Light Mountain Gun?

"Infantry Gun."

usually written as leIG  - in this case  -  leIG 75mm

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: BAM LEIG Gun - New Release
« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2008, 08:06:07 PM »
LEIG = Light Mountain Gun?

"Infantry Gun."

usually written as leIG  - in this case  -  leIG 75mm

Actually the Germans tended to use cms. 7.5cm as opposed to 75mm

 

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