Alan Hamilton

The Hf2 field wagon had a carrying capacity of 1.72 tonnes and so can easily carry a mortar and/or a machine gun team and ammo.   Historically the MG team had 2 IF2 carts drawn by one light draught horse and a mortar team would have 4 carts drawn by 2 light draught horses (2 carts in tandem to each h…[Read more]

This nicely detailed article on Finnish StuGs has several notes on armament modifications but none mention a “hull mounted” MG.  The only references deal with the substitution of the roof mounted MG34 with other weapons. You maybe found it already?

http://www.andreaslarka.net/sturmi.html

My earlier post seems to have disappeared.  This web page has a lot of detailed information on the Sturmi StuG covering types, armour, armament, vehicle numbers etc.

http://www.andreaslarka.net/sturmi.html

I built this Panzerschreck  from plastic figures, wire, card and scrap plastic.  Mine are not brilliant but they look OK to me.

And a flamethrower

I converted both a Panzerscreck and a Flamethrower for my son’s Germans.  Both weapons were made from scrap plastic, paper, card and wire.  Not as hard as you might think.

My post with pictures seems to have disappeared.  I made a Panzerschreck and a flamethrower from scrap plastic, paper, card and wire.  Not as difficult as I thought.

see http://www.morvalearth.co.uk/Bolt%20Action/Bolt%20Action%20Infantry.htm

Yes, I should maybe have been clearer.  As IO just said the Hf2 wagon was a supply and ammunition carrier and not really for use in the front line.  The wagon issued to carry mortar or MG sections/detachments was the If8.  It is possible that in a retreat where a section’s If1 carts were destroyed or abandoned that the crew might man pack the we…[Read more]

This may be a duplicate post:

The HF2 Wagon carried 1.72 tonnes and so can easily carry a Machine gun or mortar and ammo.  That said the MG team had two Infantry carts (eg IF8) drawn in tandem by one horse and a mortar team had 4 carts with 2 horses (2 carts in tandem per horse).

I don’t have the Blitzkreig book but the older Germany Strikes…[Read more]

As you say, it looks like a typo, cut and paste error or a bid to sell models!  The only units I can find in my books that had the Fl Pz Kpfw B-2(f) were 102 sPz Abt (F) during Barbarossa (1 month), 223 sPz Kp in Crimea, 7 SS Freiwilligen Gebirgs Division Prinz Eugen in the Balkans, the 213 sPz Abt in the Channel Islands and (in 1944) the…[Read more]