Hi.. i have yet another question

Was it a common thing to have a mortar team on street battle (say, Caen, or Stalingrad,
whatever) ??? I mean the team would fire the mortar rounds from inside a ruined & roofless building.


I'm making a diorama; it has a building with a massive hole on the wall, and i was thinking
adding a mortar team; position them to look like they're firing from the hole in the wall. Although i need to fix and re-make some sections of the wall due to paint eating up the foam

Thanks !!

Toonarmy,

Yes it was common to have the motors in the city fight with the infantry. The angle lets you drop bad thing on the bad guys at a short distance (like 3-500M) and still hide and have that wonderful protection of the building. And with the angle of attack coming almost straight down, one could literally shoot over buildings. I would have them shooting through the roof as opposed to the walls though. Good luck and lets see the pics when your done!!

Tracy

Just a tip to help you with this. Use acrylic paints when painting on foam. Enamels or oils will burn or melt it. Give it a good acrlyc base and then you can use enamels over that!

Point to note for your dio, make sure that there is plenty of clearance, that would be the first thing on my mind when siteing a motar.

Also, if mounted on a hard surface... road, flooring etc, make sure that it is well secured with sandbags etc. You wouldn't want that baby hop, skipping and jumping all over the place on recoil.

If mounted on flooring, make sure that the floor would support the recoil. One round, the floor collapses and you and it are on your arse.

Hey...thats very good info about the sandbag Kevin....thanks !!


...Hmm...im thinking about another dio idea now.