Tuesday 1 March 2016

From LeeH - 6mm WWII Italian Breda 20/65 Autocannon (6 points)

These Italian Anti-Aircraft trucks are an addition to my North Africa/Desert Raiders project. I painted a small unit of these last year but decided I needed a few more to put in and around the Italian Airfield I have put together. The models are by GHQ and as with all their 6mm (1/285th) scale models the details are crisp, clean and therefore very easy to paint.



The Breda 20/65 was a fast firing Auto-cannon designed primarily as an Anti-Aircraft weapon. It was developed in 1932 and was soon adopted by the Italian Army and saw use throughout the war although by 1942 it was become a bit redundant in its original role. It was still a pretty good weapon and its lightweight design and general reliability meant that when captured it was often used by the allies in a ground, anti vehicle role. The LRDG in particular liked the 20/65 and mounted it on some of their Chevy Trucks. 


These three 6mm vehicles will earn me six points but more importantly they finish off my Italian airfield defence force that I have put together...that is until I have another brainwave and buy something else!

Nice vehicles Lee - 6 points well earned.

13 comments:

  1. Very nice additions to the whole north Africa set up.

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  2. Great work Lee.
    It is bad that every time I see an AA weapon, I'm thinking how great it would be against infantry and light vehicles...?

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  3. Lee is a 6mm painting machine!

    I really like your labeling style

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  4. Some collection you are getting Lee

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  5. Very nice. Excellent work. cheers

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  6. Very nice looking little trucks! Great work Lee!

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  7. Nice group of trucks, Lee! Your African forces must be quite spectacular now! ;)

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  8. I'm loving your 6mm stuff.

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  9. Cool stuff Lee. I just finished the Perry 28mm version of the Breda!

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