Stug Panzer at 1/32

The Stug Panzer is one of the most interesting tanks of WWII and for many reasons.

Let's look at them courtesy of Wikipedia

"The Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) assault gun was Germany's most produced armoured fighting vehicle during World War II. It was built on the chassis of the proven Panzer III tank, replacing the turret with a fixed superstructure mounting a more powerful gun. Initially intended as a mobile, armoured light gun for direct-fire support for infantry, the StuG III was continually modified, and much like the later Jagdpanzer, was widely employed as a tank destroyer."

"While the StuG III was considered self-propelled artillery, it was not initially clear which land combat arm of the Wehrmacht Heer would handle the new weapon.(…). It was agreed, after a discussion, it would best be employed as part of the artillery arm.
As the StuG III was designed to fill an infantry close support combat role, early models were fitted with a low-velocity 75 mm StuK 37 L/24 gun to destroy soft-skin targets and fortifications. After the Germans encountered the Soviet KV-1 and T-34 tanks, the StuG III was first equipped with a high-velocity 75 mm StuK 40 L/43 main gun (Spring 1942) and in Autumn 1942 with the slightly longer 75 mm StuK 40 L/48 gun. These versions were known as the Sturmgeschütz 40 Ausführung F, Ausf. F/8 and Ausf. G."

The two beasts :  with the long and the short barrel

A good example of an early Stug panzer with the short 75 mm

DSG Argentina Deetail recast as a comparaison 

The same tanks with TSSD

TSSD again

The two Stugs with a Panzer III as a comparaison

What about a short film about the real thing?  I know, I cheat because it's a replica.

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Airfix Russian infantery 1/32 scale review

The Airfix russian infantery are not new figures.  They were molded years ago.  Considering that I just bought a set and I haven't found a lot of reviews on them, I decided to go forward with my own.

Exact Scale

1/35

Molding

Clean molding, nothing to say. 

Type of plastic

Hard plastic. 

Color

Dark brown

Pose

Cost

10.99 US $ (2015)

Pros

A lot of fire power 

Cool officer pose

Perfect “Russian” brown color

Low cost 

Cons

Brittle figure for wargaming

Conclusion

Good addition to Petite Infanterie Russian line-up.  We only could wish that the original soft plastic version still exists

Operation Barbarossa at 1/32 (episode 1)

We were looking for a short wargame which could be played in few hours and we came up with the episode 1 of Operation Barbarossa.

The plot is as follow:  a German motorized column is going forward a few weeks after the original attack.  The column will face entrenched Russians along the road.  The Russians troops have been ordered to defend a strategic stone bridge at all cost.

The strategic stone bridge

 A 76 mm F22 garding the road

The German column

A classic stone building at 1/32

Buildings are a cool thing to have when you do war gaming at 1/32.

It’s especially true when you use Nerf gun to emulate artillery bombardment.  If you built your building in such a way that it could be destructible, you ended up with a lot of fun.

This being said, I wanted this time to build something that has the classic look of a stone building.

To do so, I use foam blocks.  It was the first time I use those blocks I bought at the dollar store.

I can say that they are very handy.  Once painted, they emulate well stone/concrete construction.

I let you see by yourself.

What about a historical picture of the stone building?  

Let's get back to color!

That's the result after being hit by a number of big caliber shells

A Nebelwerfer at 1/32 scale

A short project to equip the Petite Infanterie german army with a rocket launcher.: the Nebelwerfer 42.

Let’s look at what Wikipedia has to say about the Nebelwerfer 42

“The 21 cm NbW 42 was a five-barreled multiple rocket launcher mounted on the towed carriage derived from that of the 3.7 cm PaK 36 anti-tank gun. A pivoting stabilizer was added to the front of the carriage to steady the launcher when firing.
The 21 cm Wurfgranate (thrower-shell) 42 rockets were spin-stabilized, electrically-fired and only had high-explosive warheads. The rocket nozzle assembly contained 22 orifices evenly spaced around the rim of the nozzle with the orifices set an angle of 16° from the axis of the rocket to give the rocket clockwise rotation.^[4] The rockets had a prominent exhaust trail that kicked up a substantial amount of dust and debris, so the crew had to seek shelter before firing. This meant that they were easily located and had to displace quickly to avoid counter-battery fire. The rockets were fired one at a time, in a timed ripple, but the launcher had no capability to fire single rockets.^[5] The rockets could be fitted with either impact or delay fuses as necessary. Liner rails could be fitted to allow the launcher to use 15 cm Wurfgranate 41 rockets with their HE, smoke and poison gas warheads.”

What about the miniature Nebelwerfer 42?

Yes I know, I cheated…those troops are Italian.  I haven’t any german at hand when I took the picture.

I haven’t found the right « rocket emulator ».  

I bought the disk gun when Target closed in Canada.  The feed always jammed.

What I need his a nerf gun with multiple shots.  I am still looking around.

What about seeing the Nebelwerfer in real?

That, all folks!  Your comments are always welcome.