Guns, Gears and Gallantry A Tour Around Belgium’s Arsenal Before the Fall

[Lee_Robertson]

So it’s day two of our big beautiful Belgian bonanza and we thought that it’s about time to take a guided tour of the nation’s miniature motor pool of 1940.

Imagine, if you will, dashing little armoured cars that resemble tin toys on steroids, trucks so dainty they could haul nothing heavier than a packet of biscuits, tractors gamely tugging along artillery pieces like stubborn dachshunds on a lead, and guns that look more fit for dispatching wasps than Wehrmacht.

Small, yes—but gloriously characterful all the same.

Head on over to
https://bayonetsandbrushes.co.uk/guns-gears-and-gallantry-a-tour-around-belgiums-arsenal-before-the-fall/
and check out what the Belgians went to war with

All comments welcome, bayonets will be left at the door please ladies and gents!

[fred]

Thanks for changing the background - much more readable with white on black. I'd still prefer normal case rather than the small caps approach.

You seem to have a lot of 3d renders and prints created - great work.

There are some real early war (and pre-war) classics in the Belgium armoury. I think the trike has to be a fave, especially with twin AA guns mounted, that must have been interesting from a stability perspective. That its 7hp engine managed 45km/h (without the guns) is quite impressive!

Is this a B1 with the turret reversed? I think copying the URL may have answered my own question!



Are you selling 3d prints, or STLs?

[Lee_Robertson]

Hi Fred,

Yes thats a B-1. You can tell by the offset turret and the fold up wall completing the crew wall circuit. Great little contraptions to be fair.

Unfortuntately I cant go back and change the font now to lower case as well because I cant batch change things across 120+ Blog posts and the body of the website. Its months work given how busy we are here.

We dont sell any stls. There are mixture of commercial licenses, contract modelled and internally modelled stuff that we are working on and part of the agreements is that no stls will ever be sold, and I sure as hell wouldnt release any digital models that we ourselves have modelled. Because of the lack of speed in our productivity its business suicide I think, so I opted against that right at the start.

We just print, but we only use high quality resins with increased tensile strength and flexibility so that the models have decent survivability

Hope that helps

[Freddy]

Great summary page, I've never heard most of them.
...except the 47mm cannon, the captured pieces were later used by the Royal Hungarian Army, even in the Barbarossa campaign.