Early War German infantry support weapons

 I got rather excited by the 'new' WRG 1925-50 rules, so finally got around to finishing the company level early War German infantry support weapons I had in stock. I was planning on doing some 1941 games and I needed some early war kit. I also still have a vague hankering to put together some Charles Grant style 'Battle' armies at the 1:3 ratio he used, so obviously my early war rifle companies would need a light mortars and anti tank rifles. As I tend to normally do grand tactical WW2 games, I'd not bothered with doing the extra tactical bits and pieces for my 15mm early Germans. 

And here they are, a pair of German AT Rifles and a pair of 50mm mortars. These are all Plastic Soldier Company, from their Early War Heavy Weapons box. You actually get three of these in the box, but I'd already used one of each with my Afrika Korps figures.

The AT rifles require you to assemble the gunner (2 pieces) but not the loader. Somewhere I'd lost the instructions but I figured out which bits went where fairly easily as the way the figures are broken apart tends to be unique for each pose. 

The crew are in jackboots but with fairly light equipment. The loader just has his breadbag and water bottle, while the gunner also has an entrenching tool and bayonet. Both have clearly moulded pistol holsters. 

The 50mm mortars also have a single piece loader, two part gunner but also a single piece mortar. I glued to mortar to the gunners hands to make the whole thing a bit more stable. I think the mortar is actually supposed to be separate but I found a suitable angle to stick it on. 

Again, both crew have light equipment, just breadbags, water bottles and pistols.

I did all of them in Vallejo Field Grey over a light undercoat, picked out the details then pinwashed some areas and gave them a light drybrush to pick out the highlights. One of the 50mm mortars was in action minutes after I'd finished basing them. That is some sort of record! 

Ive not looked at the PSC website for a while now as I rarely have any need for bulk purchases of stuff, but I gather they are switching over to resin 3D prints and a lot of the old plastic ranges are OOP now.