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Spectacular! 

 

Quote from: Leman (Andy) on February 17, 2022, 11:52:27 AM
Dr. Marten's I am assuming.

I have two pair of Marten's, do they count?

I can't begin to imagine what they saw and experienced.

Heaven forbid it ever happen again to any human!

Quote from: martin goddard on January 27, 2022, 09:39:04 PM
Just a note from the RFCM group to  readers.
I think (?) we all agree that it is right and proper to commemorate the holocaust.
We remember.

No one in my family has any wartime experience of those terrible things.
It must have been hard on those Russian, American and British  ordinary soldiers etc who did discover it.


martin

martin's spell checker can't decide if it's English or Belgian?!

Quote from: martin goddard on January 12, 2022, 05:03:45 PM
No smelling mistaks tho Jimmy.


martin

A reference found online (not holy writ of course) states:

"Lewis 0.303 light machine gun
Lewis M-1 7.7 mm machine gun. (.303) M1916. Polish and Russian. All old. A part to the North. 800 in three shipments until March 37, one of 400 Polish and two of 200 Russian."

I still need to verify the source!
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Gerald Howson in "Arms for Spain" reports the same quantities of Lewis guns from Poland and USSR in Appendices II and III.

I ended up ordering some of the prone resistance figures after all, since they fit the bill with a gun that could be a Madsen or the Czech LMG.  I wonder if I can find separate 15mm Lewis guns for vehicle mounts to use for conversion?

I missed the British home guard with limited field equipment  - next order!

I also realized the IB LMG has the Chauchet, so another option that requires little or no conversion.

Thanks again, one and all, for your feedback and suggestions!

Thanks, Alex, but I'm specifically looking for Lewis LMG for my Basque support weapons.  A reference found online (not holy writ of course) states:

"Lewis 0.303 light machine gun
Lewis M-1 7.7 mm machine gun. (.303) M1916. Polish and Russian. All old. A part to the North. 800 in three shipments until March 37, one of 400 Polish and two of 200 Russian."

http://www.sbhac.net/Republica/Fuerzas/Armas/Infanteria/Subfusiles/Subfusiles.htm#Ligeras

I still need to verify the source!

What Lewis Gun figures from PP WW1/2 would  be "easiest" to convert for Basque (Euzkadi?) LMG support weapons?  WW2 Dutch?  WW1 Tommies?

Swap heads for beret and smooth over puttees to look like long trousers with green stuff?

Anyone swapped heads on prone figures yet?

I thought I read somewhere that a few Mondragon 75mm mountain guns made it to Spain '36-'39.  Did any 75mm field guns make it over as well?

I'm a bit slow, but recently realized the Schneider-Cannet 75mm Gun m06 in the WW1 Serbian range is nearly the same model the Spanish purchased in 1907/08.  This gun is the standard issue Spanish 75mm field gun, which we've been using the French 75 as a stand-in for many years.  Thank you, Martin!

https://second.wiki/wiki/28_modelo_1906

Now we need the 70mm mountain gun and 105mm mountain howitzer.  Martin?  Lluis?