"1/144 what Infantry weapons are missing?" Topic

I'm negotiating with Alex (AOTRS Shipyards) on some 3D printable "generic(ish)" infantry. One weapon many armies are missing is ground mount Automatic Grenade Launcher and I will commission if possible such weapons and crew. It may be we can make the weapons a little less generic by moving the ammo boxes as the various nationalities have them in different places on otherwise, at 1/144 scale similar items.

Anything else missing? Karl Gustav teams are already done by me.

Sorry this is only for the one true scale, 1/144. Other scales are not even a remote possibility as they STL's will not scale sensibly.

3.5" bazookas last time I checked – would like kneeling and firing, and prone and firing poses.

Prone and firing WWII MG42 team for the Pendraken range. Summer and Winter dress. Can't recall if Minifigs does one.

ATGMs especially: SS-11, Bantam, Cobra, Entac, Swingfire, Sagger, Snapper, Swatter, HOT, TOW, etc., etc., ATGM ground mounts with guy controlling them. Man controlling them probably separate from the weapons, where appropriate, since some permit the launcher to be quite some distance from the guy controlling the missile.

"In-flight" ATGMs to go with the above.

Could use some Dragon gunners in various poses, prone and firing; sitting and firing, carrying the weapon.

West German RPGs – PzFst 44, and later models.

MG3 prone and firing, with troops wearing olde-style, US M-1 helmets – works for West Germans, many NATO countries, and various others around the globe too.

Guys walking/searching with hand-held minesweepers.

Guy with a control box, either standing or kneeling/sitting, and an aerial drone – perhaps one on the ground next to him, and another separate to be mounted as if flying. Most of the early ones seem to be the olde-style, model airplane type drone, but you could also do the quad-rotor helo-type ones too, I suspect.

Thresher some would be possible and interesting. However things like the helmets are not really possible. I like true scale 1/144 figures. To show the shape of a helmet with only a 0.1mm resoution (14.4mm real scale) and an eye practical detection limit of 0.4mm (57.6 mm real world) most of the "detail" you see on a figure is a gross ditortion. This makes the figures (personal opinion of course) look stupid as they cannot fit in a true scale vehicle. I have considered an MG 3 on a tripod with the operator prone using the periscope sight. At this scale it would be indestinguisable from an M42 which uses the same tripod, appart from perhapds barrel length but as the MG3 is an updated MG42 even small changes would be impossible to reproduce and be practicaly detectable.

This is Trigat.

at 1/144 Milan would look no different at true 1/144.

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With crew this is possibility as its different enough to stand out at this scale.

Why in flight models? Max flight time for most ATGW missiles is a couple of minutes at most, well inside most wargames bound lengths an so neeing to place them to represent typicaly much less than that time, seems wastefull of wargames time and is more for modellers. If it were neccessary for your rules then one generic "missile" would more than do this in a wargames table. It is likely the stand for the missile would be the same thickness as the missile itself so artistical a bit pointless.

I'm not sure how many nations use a ground-mount autoGL. While the Mk19 is (pretty easily) ground-mountable on the same tripod as an M2 .50cal, Mk19s seem to be vehicle-only in practice, probably because of their painfully limited ammo capacity relative to the rate of fire and ammo weight.

I know the Soviets (and now Russians) use AGS-17s, though, so anyone using Soviet-style organizations would have them.

I do get that helmets in this scale look very similar.

Just added in my wants for thoroughness, and since the M-1 was so ubiquitous in many armies around the globe.