"Bolt Action US Airborne Range Revamped" Topic

Warlord needs to resculpt the bazooka man. That thing is way undersized.

Great looking figure. However why is it that every company battlefront included seems to always sculpt paratroopers with gloves on. They rarely wore their gloves, usually soon as they landed they discarded their gloves. Then most of the campaigns that they would fight in they would have no gloves on. Just a pet peeve when can paint over that in 15 millimeter, twenty eight millimeter requires more fiddly work to remove the gloves.

Oh yeah, looks like he's shouldering a piece of drain pipe!

There were more than a couple of different designs of bazooka, as you know.

It's obvious that Airborne troops would have selected the lightest/smallest and this is what we have added to our models – the 2.36 M1A1 version rather than the chunkier 3.5 M9 bazooka.

Cheers,

Paul
warlordgames.com

The M9 was also a 2.36", although it fired a more powerful rocket. The 3.5" M20 "Super Bazooka" wasn't produced until the very end of WWII and wasn't actually issued until the Korean War.

FWIW, the "stove pipe" (M20A1) was still in service in the US Army in 1968. Contrary to popular mythology, they weren't recoilless; they kicked like mules and could inflict a pretty good shiner if you didn't press you eye firmly against the sight. The backblast could vaporize a wooden ammo crate 75' behind the firing position. The rocket was so slow that at 500 meters you had time to put the weapon and track the rocket to its target.

LT