French foreign legion, Norway 1940 Gorgon miniatures

[lou passejaire]

actually, i'm trying to convince mad bob to make a 1/56 Renault UE



it's a pity , there is no renault UE in 1/56 scale .

they were used by France, Germany, Italy, Poland , Romania, and even Thailand .

artillery tractor , supply vehicle to provide frontline positions with ammunition and other necessities while under artillery fire, and some crazy prototypes ...

if someone is interested , let me know .

[former user]

there was some guy who made some generic ones that resembled those. I was actually thinking of making proxy lorraines from italian 1/72 tanks...

[lou passejaire]

i have ordered 1 lorraine 37 for my 342 CACC

and 2 laffly w15t ...

i'll make some pics

[Nostromo]

Interesting-
I thought there was a special infantry carrying trailer as well.

[lou passejaire]

renault UE was not used as a tractor for infantry trailer .
it was the lorraine 38L who was the armoured personnel carrier with an armoured infantry trailer .

[pacofeanor]

The Lorraine 38 was an armoured vehicule for motorised infantry "chasseurs portés" only.

Those four bataillons were part of four "heavy" reserve armoured division:  "division cuirassée de réserve"  DCR (one batallion per division)

the most famous was the 4th DCR that was commanded by general De Gaule in a famous counter attck on Abbeville. unfortunatly the division, the last to be created, didn't received the Lorraine 38 and the "chasseurs portés" were mounted on civilian bus !!


The Lorraine 37 was only a servisable vehicule for amunition or fuel in the tank batallions (so there were lorraine 37 in Narvik with the 342th CACC (h39) tank company)

the tracteur renault UE was used for 25mm AT guns (or 40 mm AT gun for the happy few that had one !!),  to bring amunitions to the front  etc ... in infantry compagnies  not for  men .

best regards
paco

[lou passejaire]

looking at a french "ministère de la guerre" movie "narvik, 1ere opération de débarquement" , i have found some shots of the german naval artillery mounted on railway flatcars  :

[former user]

every frikking way you look, improvised guns on rails....

[lou passejaire]

improvised guns on rails....

but quite efficient , used at the entrance of the tunnel .

[former user]

quite efficient everywhere, actually