Monday, April 1, 2013

AFV Modeller Issue 23

The release of AFV Club's 10.5cm field howitzer and ammunition caught my imagination (the pressed steel wheels did it for me!) and fills a big void in artillery of the period. The kit can be built straight from the box and builds into a little gem. Care must be taken to follow the instructions as it is not as obvious where many of the parts belong, as is the case when building an armour model and some of the parts are very fragile. The ubiquitous 10.5 cm field howitzer was seen on all fronts during the war. I wanted to depict the gun in action in the summer of 1942 during the push towards Stalingrad and chose 3rd (mot) Artillery regiment of the 3rd motorised infantry division. These units were reinforced infantry divisions, which as the name suggests had at least partial motorisation.

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