Excellent start to your collection. You need some L6s for the lancer units.
I have one for my Cultists, but were there really many L6-40s in North Africa? The things I am reading seem to differ heavily on that?
Very nice painting.
Love them.
approx 20 for El Alamein and perhaps additional for Tunisia.
Huh. Can you (or anyone paying attention) recommend reading material on it? It seems to me everyone assumes the conflict didn't really matter until Rommel got there, and that seems very slighting of the Italian Army.The only book I have is the Armour In Battle: Wavell's Offensive by Bryan Perrett published by Ian Allan in 1979.
It's an Autoblindo AS37 Troop Carrier from Blitzkrieg - they only got a few in Africa, as they mostly went to the Eastern front, as far as I can tell. I just loved the look of them.Very modern looking.
but were there really many L6-40s in North Africa? The things I am reading seem to differ heavily on that?
they were ...but the campaign were they saw more action was at the very end in Tunisia
i suppose that your nice collection has been put together for the sake of representing all the exotic and nice stuff that inspire your iconic view of the conflict...so , in this case, also if not historical you can mix all the vehicles...
in fact the 90mm self propelled gun was employed..or at least tried to go in action..only in sicily and with non more than 2 pieces...and , unfortunatly, the Bersaglieri in Africa never received the rare and interesting armoured troop carrier that you showed us...very saw service in the Balcans in anti partisan duties...then a pair went into service, after 1944, with RSI fascist troops and the few remaining ones were captured and employed by Police German units...you know the doctrine of Italian Armed Forces was, and still is, do not waste modern and updated materials if you can field old ones...after the armistice the Germans captures enormous quantities of brand news very performing Beretta SMG (practically distributed only to police units and never to first line units), brand new modern trucks and off roads vehicles that had been desperatly need in Africa, entire depots gallons and gallons of precious petrol that had not even accounted for, modern artillery A/A pieces and P40 modern tanks ....Albert Speer report about the material find, in fact cautiosly hidden, in Italian depots and barracks is, in my opinion, the most important document to understand why Italy lost the War...
they were ...but the campaign were they saw more action was at the very end in Tunisia
i suppose that your nice collection has been put together for the sake of representing all the exotic and nice stuff that inspire your iconic view of the conflict...so , in this case, also if not historical you can mix all the vehicles...
in fact the 90mm self propelled gun was employed..or at least tried to go in action..only in sicily and with non more than 2 pieces...and , unfortunatly, the Bersaglieri in Africa never received the rare and interesting armoured troop carrier that you showed us...very saw service in the Balcans in anti partisan duties...then a pair went into service, after 1944, with RSI fascist troops and the few remaining ones were captured and employed by Police German units...you know the doctrine of Italian Armed Forces was, and still is, do not waste modern and updated materials if you can field old ones...after the armistice the Germans captures enormous quantities of brand news very performing Beretta SMG (practically distributed only to police units and never to first line units), brand new modern trucks and off roads vehicles that had been desperatly need in Africa, entire depots gallons and gallons of precious petrol that had not even accounted for, modern artillery A/A pieces and P40 modern tanks ....Albert Speer report about the material find, in fact cautiosly hidden, in Italian depots and barracks is, in my opinion, the most important document to understand why Italy lost the War...
Can you point me at sources? I have been trying to find what vehicles were available where for a few months, and I am getting very contradictory data.
And did the 11/39 just sort of show up and immediately go away with the introduction of the 13/40 and 14/41?
Nice selection.