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Offline monk2002uk

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15mm WW1 late war Germans
« on: September 26, 2021, 05:27:52 PM »
Here are four platoons of Peter Pig late war German infantry:









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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2021, 06:14:38 PM »
Nice work on those

cheers
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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2021, 06:19:14 PM »
Very good paint jobs

Offline Ranthony

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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2021, 07:02:49 PM »
Lovely work on these, I must say.

Thank you for sharing.
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Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

Offline monk2002uk

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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2021, 06:12:25 AM »
Thank you very much. Some of the support weapons, including MG08s:



Minenwerfer:



And Granatwerfer 16s, which are actually from the Peter Pig WW2 range so the small hand-held mortars of WW2 rather than the spigot Granatwerfer. I painted some of the helmets with the WW1 camo pattern to help disguise the WW2 shape:



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Offline monk2002uk

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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2021, 11:30:18 AM »
No German force would be complete without Flammenwerfer. The men are from Peter Pig. The flame is from Armorcast:



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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2021, 05:29:43 PM »
Excellent
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Offline monk2002uk

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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2021, 07:12:46 PM »
Thank you, Driscoles.

Something to kick up a Sturm, providing close support for infantry colleagues - the Peter Pig infantry gun:





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Offline monk2002uk

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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2021, 04:34:08 AM »
Anti-tank weapons. First, the late war 37mm anti-tank gun from Battlefront Miniatures:





And the T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle. These are Peter Pig WW2 German anti-tank models modified to look like the WW1 T-Gewehr:



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Offline Metternich

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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2021, 03:51:35 PM »
Excellent work.

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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2021, 06:44:56 PM »
Great additions

How widely used where the 37mm guns and the AT Rifles? I’ve recently added several to my 10mm German forces, but after some reading found they were both deployed very late in the war

Offline monk2002uk

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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2021, 05:13:13 AM »
Thank you. The AT guns and T-Gewehr were very late to the party, as you noted. Looking at British and Dominion accounts, especially of tank late 1918 actions, the T-Gewehr is not mentioned often but mentions are more frequent than for the AT gun. Mentions of the latter are very rare. I haven't checked French sources yet; that is on the to-do list. The German sources devoted to both weapons only talk about stats and standard operating procedures, not about actual use in the field.

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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2021, 10:45:18 AM »
Very nice!

One small point. In September 1915 the Kaiser ordered that marching boots were to be polished black. I should imagine the odd one might have escaped the order but by 1918 I would expect that most of the remaining examples would have been blackened.
Em dezembro de '81
Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

Offline Metternich

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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #13 on: October 07, 2021, 04:34:23 AM »
The 37mm Rheinmetall TAK (AT Gun) was very late to the party indeed .  So late indeed, that one wonders how many even saw any action prior to the Armistice.  The below text is identical to what I have found in Herbert Jager's book, German Artillery of World War One.  In a nutshell, although 3 weapons were delivered for testing in August 1918, and OHL ordered a further 350 (increased to 1200), only  twelve were delivered in September 1918.  By the Armistice, 600 had been produced (with a number of these having been delivered to the frontlines).
  "Very little is known of their effectiveness on the battlefield, but given the late date of development, they couldn’t have been deployed before the end of September/beginning of October 1918. We know that Army Group Rupprecht of Bavaria ordered 228 of the guns in an attempt to stem the Anglo-Belgian advance in its area of operations, however, they received only 96 on the 5th of November 1918."

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww1/germany/3-7cm-tankabwehrkanone-rheinmetall/

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Re: 15mm WW1 late war Germans
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2021, 06:23:15 AM »
Thanks, great link. Does seem a very very late war piece of equipment, and even then pretty rare

 

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