28mm WW2 Italian Infantry Platoon and Support

This is a set of 21 sculpts of 28mm WW2 Italian infantry. The file contains all 21 sculpts plus a bonus Bersaglieri feather plume that can be attached to the helms if required.

The set consists of:

5 soldiers with rifle poses advancing

1 soldier with LMG and loader advancing

1 soldier with SMG

2 officer poses with rifles

1 officer pose with SMG

1 kneeling officer with binoculars

1 MMG gunner and 2 crew

1 Solothurn S18/1000 ATR gunner and 1 crew

1 soldier firing Brixia model 35 mortar and 1 crew

1 radio operator with RF1 radio set.

1 senior officer in cap

Bonus feather for Bersagiieri. These are sculpted to print separately to glue to the helmets or attach using software such as Meshmixer.

The figures are scaled to work nicely alongside Warlord plastic figures.

This all together is 22 sculpts and all the sculpts listed above included in the purchase set.

These have been tested on an Elegoo Mars and Anycubic Photon resin printer. They have not been tested on a FDM printer.

All figures are un-based. Does not include trees or terrain etc just figures.

Update: as requested, I have added a head with a tropical helm and a tropical helm on its own. This should allow you to swap heads with programs such as meshmixer or physically by cutting and gluing.

I have now also added a tropical helm and head with a rosette on the front of the helm and an Alpini hat and head with an Alpini hat.

I have now added an Adrian helmet too thanks to Propylene's help (see below).

I made these for playing Chain of Command but they are also suitable for Bolt Action and other games. Due to the limitations of 3D printing I had to make some compromises on detail and the Solothurn is a bit shorter than it should be to fit on a 50mm base.

I have not tested them at 20mm or 15mm but I would expect most would print at 20mm.

I opted for the M33 helmet. This was used in all theatres so these figures are equally suitable for desert and European actions. I have added a tropical helm and a head with the tropical helm attached because it was requested.

Why Italians?

First, Italians fought nearly every major power in WW2. They fought British in N Africa, Sicily and Italy, USA in Italy, Russians in Russia, French in the Invasion of France and even the Germans during the fall of Italy in 1943. This means they can be played historically against nearly everyone.

Secondly, Germans tend to be good at everything and everyone plays them, they are all you normally see. The Italians need a bit more work and have a few quirks, the Italians are different and variety is good.

Third, the same basic uniform design can be used from 1940 desert through to 1943. The only thing that changed was the colour. With this STL set you can actually have 2 armies (3 if you include Bersaglieri).

Thank you to Raphael Longbow for helping test print and kindly painting and photographing the models.

Thank you to Propylene for supplying me a roughed out Adrian helmet. It needed a little work to finish it off for printing but it saved me a lot of work, thanks. His store is at https://www.wargaming3d.com/vendor/just-some-miniatures/