20mm Argentine SF GPMG Teams Part 1

 Work started on a couple of SF GPMG teams for my Argentine forces. Liberation Miniatures, a 3 man team on a circular base.

Mounted on the base

Elhiem ammo boxes and plastic rod spent cartridges added

20mm Argentine 81mm Mortar Complete

 That’s the 81mm done 😉

A small stand with some ammo

20mm Argentine 120mm Mortar complete

 120mm mortar complete.

20mm Argentine 81mm Mortar Part 1

 In parallel with the 120mm mortar I also working on an 81mm, decided on a 3 man crew for this, the tube and figures are once again Elhiem Miniatures. Again a round mdf base 40mm diameter and I'm following the same procedure for construction and painting.

The Elhiem castings, slightly converted, helmet cover, hood and parka extension, and given a standard black primer.

The mortar painted and based

Some ammunition boxes

Dougie

20mm Argentine 120mm Mortar Part 2

 Progressing well, the mortar's finished, here's a pic with a close up of some chipping on the baseplate.

Some ammunition completed

The 5 man crew finished as well

The last stage is putting everything together on the base.

Dougie

20mm Argentine 120mm Mortar Part 1

 Next up for Argentine support is the 120mm mortar. They used the French manufactured Brandt 120mm MO-12-AM50 mortar. The pics below are a captured one from the campaign.

This specific mortar doesn't appear to be available in 20mm so after a good gander I opted for some conversion work to the Zvezda 1/72 scale kit, this is a nice kit and you also get some mortar bombs included.

As you can see in the top photos the main difference is the base plate, I knocked this up out of plasticard and some brass wire and got it on a round mdf base.

For the crew I opted for a range from Elhiem Miniatures the Nato FN Fal range, available here Elhiem Miniatures The only issue was that the figures are in summer uniform with plain helmets, time for more green stuff! The generic gun crew are in great firing positions and the also do a guy dropping a 120mm bomb down the tube. To start I added hoods to the figures and extended the jacket to parka length. I then added the helmet covers.

Dougie

20mm Argentine 105mm Recoilless Rifle complete

 The Recoilless Rifle team completed, I also made a separate scatter base of ammunition boxes and packing tubes.

Dougie