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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Other => Topic started by: ysi_maniac on November 03, 2021, 12:28:47 PM

Title: DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS THIS? (questions and anwers about figure models)
Post by: ysi_maniac on November 03, 2021, 12:28:47 PM

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/Italianos-Paracaidistas-Anzio_back.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/2dd92f0a-e00d-4c3c-98ee-8b8139104966/p/8c5663b1-1e39-409c-b06b-964045fa785f)

I mean the encyrcled back pack.

The encyrcled box, near the foot of the soldier, looks like an ammo box but, as this soldier does not wear machine gun, I think it has something to do with mentiones back pack.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS THIS? (questions and anwers about figure models)
Post by: Old Wombat on November 03, 2021, 02:38:21 PM

I think you'll find that the figure is the #2 in the machine gun team & that it is a big box of ammo & spare barrels for the 6.5mm Breda M30 LMG on his back.

(https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/attachments/dutch-knil-soldiers-with-breda-m30-light-machine-gun-during-ww2-png.589881/)
Image courtesy of alternatehistory.com**

 wikipedia: Breda 30 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breda_30)

Forgotten Weapons: Italy's Worst Machine Gun: The Breda Modello 30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFJI04ifSoM)




**: I think these are Dutch troops of some kind (KNIL used the Breda M-30) using a Dutch design of ammunition pack.
       This image seems to confirm the KNIL link:
       (https://www.militarysunhelmets.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/KNIL3.jpg)
       And it would have helped if I'd read the image link, too; "dutch-knil-soldiers-with-breda-m30-light-machine-gun-during-ww2-png"