"Italian Portable Flame Thrower Model 41" Topic

"The flame thrower has been used with deadly effect in this war. In an attack against a modern fort built of steel and concrete, it could well be the most important instrument of the attack.

According to British sources the two previously used Italian flame throwers, the 35 and 40, have become obsolescent due to their excessive weight. These models have been superseded by model 41.

The weight of the new model is 40 pounds, and it has a range of from 17 to 22 yards, and a fuel capacity of 1.75 gallons. The fuel used is a mixture of 9 volumes of heavy oil and 1 volume of gasoline. The duration of a continuous jet is five to six seconds…"

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Armand

There are three containers, two for fuel oil and the third for compressed air which is used as a propellant. The fuel cylinders are on the outside with the compressed air cylinder between, and slightly to the rear of them.

Each fuel cylinder is about 1 1/2 to 2 feet high, 5 to 6 inches in diameter …

The Italian M41 lancia fiamme was also provided to the Romanian army, who used them in their campaigns against the Red Army. It is understandable that the US Army either didn't know, or didn't care about this in their assessment.

But I did care.

So my Romanian force had to have a couple. And I had to kit-bash them, which at 6mm is no small task.

Then later, H&R added combat engineers to their new-and-improved Italian infantry figures.

So now my Italian force has a full engineering platoon, complete with M41 lancia fiamme teams.

Gotta' get 'em all.

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)

Very nice Mark.

Those are really nice… congrats!…

Armand