Pretty cool dogs...

[traveller]

http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/GreatWar28/items/GW28-1135.html

[Mancha]

I'll tell ya the truth, I don't much like the dogs themselves.  But the whole get-up is pretty cool.

[commissarmoody]

Oh those are kool! i want one

[tim in saskatoon]

That is neat.

While that is an incredibly cool model - and the modeller in me is desperately trying avoid buying one right now... the wargamer in me despises HMG teams on the move... I don't know why... just don't like them. It's an aesthetic thing I guess. I prefer the guns set up and ready for action - same goes for any support weapon larger than a Machinegun. 

LMGs on the move? No problem! In fact, I conversely prefer LMG teams on the move and dislike set up teams - mostly because they're usually prone and take up to darn much room...

[SMPress]

Looks like Irish Setters.  I had one as a kid, dumbest dogs on earth I think!  Still, it was also the most loyal dog ever...

[Plynkes]

Tim, ideally I would like both. I loved how the Brigade Games British Vickers team came as two lots of gun and crew. One on the move and one set up. They did the same with the German Maxim. You don't see that very often. Be nice if more manufacturers did this.

On the down side of course, you have twice as much stuff to paint for each HMG.

[cdr]

The dogs are pretty. They are supposed to represent a no longer existing breed the "matin belge"

[WillieB]

The good news is that the Belgian Mastiff breed (Matin Belge or Chien de Trait) has been re-created a few years ago by crossbreeding descendants of the race with mostly English Mastiffs and Belgian Sheepdogs.
Lovely dogs, immensely strong and fiercely loyal to their owners, but sometimes a bit aggressive.

[ushistoryprof]

The good news is that the Belgian Mastiff breed (Matin Belge or Chien de Trait) has been re-created a few years ago by crossbreeding descendants of the race with mostly English Mastiffs and Belgian Sheepdogs.
Lovely dogs, immensely strong and fiercely loyal to their owners, but sometimes a bit aggressive.

Massive , strong, loyal and aggessive-all the traits of a great dog of war.  All in all good partner for soldiers facing the horrors of the Great War. Prof