28mm rifle stacking ...

[former user]

Please help me find some of these, preferrably 1st generation ones, and most desired french Lebel or Berthier. I am soon picking up again my foreign legion project to continue and I am short a few, especially for the support troops.

where do I have to look? Haslefree? Reaper? I don't care if plastic or metal

[FramFramson]

Shoot! Warlord Games sells individual equipment sprues (not French ones though  - I'd have bought one if they had) and they just had a sale on sprues for half off.

Still, have a look, you might pick some up anyway.

[former user]

oh, I'd be fine with some that don't have the upper barrel cover and are actual carbines. I thoght of substituting with Martini Henrys for Lebel, Empress make them

[carlos marighela]

TAG sell the Mas 39.

[former user]

sorry: TAG?

[carlos marighela]

The Assault Group, AKA TAG:

http://www.theassaultgroup.co.uk/store/product.php?productid=405&cat=33&page=1

[former user]

and other great stuff too, THX very much for the hint! I guess this is as closest I can get to something french  

edit: Holy Fuck! they even have pack mules at reasonable prices that look good!

[carlos marighela]

My pleasure.

[FramFramson]

THAT'S who makes those pack mules! Nice! Thanks to the both of you - I was trying to remember that myself.

[former user]

all right, so, let's continue the detail madness:

Now that I have come to conceptualiting my artillery unit, the necessity has come up to ask where the special carbines that artillery crews were issued with up to WW2 appear on the tabletop.

I have done a bit of research on arms stacking, and apparently there even used to be a weapon stacking drill and special lugs or whatever on rifles to facilitate this, but I understand that in the field this has come into the discard pile since soldiers are not any more equipped with similar weapons and operate in smaller groups (WW1 ?)

anyway, even then, artillery units usually lack squad special/support weapons, but they still have some sidearm that needs to be put to the side (but not stowed away, since there theoretically exists the occasion when they could have to defend themselves).

So, do you, dear fellow forumites, represent rifle stacks? Do You know of period photographs that show these? Or can someone contribute information as to how artillery units treated their rifles when servicing their big guns?
please?

[petercooman123]

I have found this one of a long tom, but it is labelled 'in training in england' so i don't know if this would represent combat conditions. Guns are clearly stacked standing up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/155_mm_Long_Tom#mediaviewer/File:155mm-Long-Tom-england.jpg


This one shows them just dropped behind the guns.

https://www.ww2incolor.com/britain/DEaRuR_44_1%23.html


Also, half of the russian pictures show them with weapons slung to their backs.

[former user]

THX

yes, it is difficult to decide from propaganda/drill pictures

but the one with the dropped ones is clearly not drill 

[petercooman123]

Probably a big difference between hasty deployment and prepared defences too i can imagine!

[former user]

of course
I am just curious to know of as many variants as possible
french soldiers (not artillery)



during a break

and this is the only one among many artillery pictures of GW french that shows rifles at all, and it is probably manouvre

[Mitch K]

AIUI, some rifles like that had a "piling hook" that allowed you to stack arms (early Mauser '98s, I think), others stacked on the ramrod, or the bayonet attachment, or even on the sling swivel...

I think you might be able to get away with just fixing in them with CA with the trigger guards outwards, and only the most die-hard of rivet counters will know the difference