"37mm Infantry guns" Topic

Are any of these available in 15mm? I would like to find the type that was used as the main gun on the FT-17, but dismounted.

I seem to recall it's on Blue Moon's to-do list.

This one not specifically mentioned, but may find something of use here:

irregularminiatures.co.uk

Their really useful guns range is listed under 20mm but are roughly 18mm so they can be used for eitherb 15mm or 20mm – soprry, direct link to the range didn't work, it goes straight to the home page.

Early War Miniatures just brought one out in 20mm, looks a pretty simple scratch-build – tripod stand,shield and stubby gun.

Thanks all. Kind of strange Peter Pig don't do one. Richard's right. Shouldn't be that hard to scratch build. Especially now I've seen a picture of one.

This picture has the Irregular 37mm. It's the crew served weapon on the right.

I've been looking for something like this for my Philippines project which I'm doing in 15mm too.

If this is a small 20mm then it might work with the larger 15mm. What figures are you using?

The Irregular 20mm French are quite nice, I have a few of those pictured, they are slight almost 1/76th scale.

That 37mm looks way over scale to me (and thus truely massive in 15mm!).

Heres a pic of the EWM gun with my converted Moroccan Traillieur crew, you`ll note it looks smaller.

I use a mix of Command Decision, and Peter Pig for my WW2 guys. These are smallish figures. Both the Irregular and Early War guns look cool, though I like the latter better. Wish someone produced one in 15mm. But I think I can do a scratch build. Want a couple of them. Shouldn't be too much trouble. Of course, I've thought that before and found myself on a steep slope. Like my WW2 armored train. Took me the best part of two years just to decide how I wanted to make the turrets.
Still find it strange Peter Pig don't do one. Maybe I'll drop them a line. If nobody says anything, how would they know anyone's interested?
I sure do appreciate the effort on your parts.

Thanks,
Robby

It WAS on Eurekas 300 Club listing but appears to have dropped off again. Pity, as I'd like a few in 15mm too.

Looking at that pic of the Irregular French again this morning. Look at the gun on the far left (a 75mle1897 if I`m not mistaken)

Note: the barrel of the `75 is smaller than the 37mm (which must be therefore hugely out of scale).

And there's the problem- I'm sure a lot of us would like a couple of these guns, just not enough. IIRC, I've only seen this gun on the regimental level on TO&E tables and it's just a few of them. Perhaps a platoon with three or so guns. In the US Army in the Philippines they were in the regimental anti-tank companies of the Philippine Division.

The 57th Infantry (PS) had an anti-tank company with three platoons. One platoon was armed with the more modern M3 37mm guns and the other two were armed with the M1916 37mm which is a copy of this weapon. So at the most I would only want maybe three or four of the things. Heck, in a pinch I guess I could just use the M3 and just say that it's a M1916… the purist in me balks, but such is life.

Didn't Minifigs do this gun too for their WWI range? I'll have to look and see.

Oh, on the Irregular gun's scale, I think Richard is spot on. I didn't notice that earlier but the 37mm infantry gun is HUGE when compared to the 75mm on the left of the picture. IIRC, 75mm is roughly 3" whereas 37mm is about 1.5". They look backwards to me! The French 75mm is way too small compared to the infantry gun. Ooops!

I've scratch built a couple for my WWII french. It wasn't too difficult. The barrel scales to only about 8mm long at 1:100 scale so the whole gun is tiny.

Do you have any pictures Leadgend?