| CATMAN2 | 05 Jun 2014 7:54 a.m. PST |
New 1/72nd First to Fight Polish Fiat 621L medium truck now available in the PSC webstore, £7.99 GBP or a 3 truck deal for £19.00 GBP :-
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A number of captured 621's were pressed into German service so useful allround – I'm going to paint a couple up myself in Wehrmacht colours! |
| ITALWARS | 05 Jun 2014 10:43 a.m. PST |
Pressed into service by Germans?…can't believe it..that they appreciated, in 1943, this truck more appropriate in Laurel & Hardy scenario…
not cheap at all for just a single small model in a box… |
| deephorse | 05 Jun 2014 11:07 a.m. PST |
£6.33 GBP for an injection molded truck? Not a bad price really. |
| CATMAN2 | 06 Jun 2014 2:00 a.m. PST |
@italwars – they were pressed into German service, mainly with rear area/administrative units do a google image search |
| Fish | 06 Jun 2014 2:35 a.m. PST |
Way better than using bicycles or horses… |
 20thmaine  | 06 Jun 2014 5:34 a.m. PST |
Contrary to German propaganda, they were actually desperately short of mechanised equipment of al sorts. Hence the "recycling" of captured equipment from aircraft and tanks down to handguns. Which made for a logistics nightmare. |
| PiersBrand | 06 Jun 2014 7:00 a.m. PST |
ITALWARS, These would be the same Germans using a 35t in 1945 to stop American Shermans… Rather than the wall-to-wall King Tiger variety who all had armoured half-tracks. Dunno about that Fiat but I have seen a kfz.13 in use in 1945… As for the price, blooming good for a kit, even better given the quality of these Polish kits. |
| ITALWARS | 06 Jun 2014 12:31 p.m. PST |
thanks PiersBrand..in fact i was only joking imagining such a vintage loooking vehicles at the hand of Germans..above all on a wargame pictorial perspective…i'm totally aware that the Germans , above all in Italy/Balkans recruited everything..one very interesting document that i should have somewhere in my paper files..is tthe list of captured Italian equipment after the trahison on September 43..that was survied and officially published by Albert Speer…it's really amazing the tons of materiels that they were so amazed to discover among hidden depots (also for our soldiers at the front)in every important Italian city ….from parmisan cheese tons to great number of brand news trucks, petrol, AA weapons up to rare to find rough material essential for the War effort and of which also Mussolini had not been made aware of |
BlackWidowPilot  | 07 Jun 2014 10:02 a.m. PST |
The German attitude towards captured equipment runs much like the old American wisdom, "What the Hell, it runs!" I've seen period photos showing everything from Waffen SS troops riding into campaign during Operation Barbarossa in French trucks, Wehrmacht units using French UE tractors as SP mounts for Pak 36, to Heer units comprised of a hodgepodge assortment of Italian, Czech, Polish, you-name-it firearms and vehicles, even a Polish TKS tankette towing a Pupchen antitank launcher in 1945. My own late war German kampfgruppe has a real grab bag of weird and wonderful captured and/or cobbled together equipment, and I hope to keep adding to it before I shed my mortal coil with a complete motor pool of transport devoid of anything German in origin… Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net |
| Tango01 | 22 Jun 2014 9:34 p.m. PST |
Blog modelarsko-wargamingowy by Marins has been updated with a review of Polish Fiat 621 military truck model, released in 1:72 scale by First to Fight in 11th issue of "September 1939" magazine. Text is written in Polish only but there are many photos too
From here
link For translation you can used.
translate.google.com/#pl/en Amicalement
Armand |
| BlackWidowPilot | 23 Jun 2014 10:05 p.m. PST |
Arrgh! What I really need are Fiat 626 trucks, as the French Army of 1940 had several hundred in service during the invasion of France, and the Germans "acquired" them afterwards probably using them in Operation Barbarossa. I do know that the Germans used Fiat 626 trucks "acquired" from their hapless Italian allies in North Africa and Italy, so IMHO the Fiat 626 would be another very handy subject to see available in 1/72 scale hard plastic as a fast built format kit:
Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net |
| number4 | 11 Nov 2015 2:44 p.m. PST |
Does anyone know if these models are visually close enough to use with an Italian force for North Africa? |
| Lion in the Stars | 11 Nov 2015 9:05 p.m. PST |
FIAT = Fix it again, Tony! Looks more like a model than a wargaming piece… |
| Blacky750 | 13 Nov 2015 3:17 p.m. PST |
Bit late, I've had mine, including the half track version from SHS for ages, again, a lovely model Also have some from Moonlite Modelwerks, again lovely one piece castings but no longer in production sadly |
| French Wargame Holidays | 27 Nov 2015 8:40 a.m. PST |
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