“Hitler’s Buzz Saw” (1 Viewer)

[WBritain]

The German MG42 was designed to use the standard German 7.92 X 57mm Mauser rifle round and to be cheaper and easier to manufacture. It proved to be highly reliable and easy to operate with a very high cyclic rate of about 1200 rounds per minute compared to around 850 rounds per minute for the earlier MG 34. This made it extremely effective in providing suppressive fire resulting in it being universally feared by Allied troops. Its unique sound was likened to tearing cloth leading to the nickname "Hitler's buzzsaw". Our new MG42 team features the usual two man crew in the rabbit lined ¾ length anorak peculiar to members of the Waffen-SS and widely issued to troops serving on the Eastern Front. In the postwar years militaria collectors have named this the Kharkov parka due to photographic evidence of its use by Waffen-SS forces during the Third Battle of Kharkov, although this garment was also in use during the winter of 1944-45 on the Western Front.

 

[The Breaker]

Great looking set!!

 

[TSCollector]

Looks good.

 

[Mike97]

Woo hoo, great looking figures ! The hits just keep on coming.

 

[Hunter Rose]

Awesome pose. A must have set for me.

The hobby needs more of these realistic combat poses with troops prone and firing or hunched down and firing from behind cover, rather than all the standing "hero poses" depicting troops in combat.

 

[WBritain]

I took another photo of the new MG42 set with a couple of our other figures to populate the scene a bit more… hope you like it!
Ken

 

[bromhead]

wonder how soon those barrels burned out,,