Autocarretta OM35 2025-09

[BarleyBop]

So vehicle figures still being painted, but starting to think about a mini dio...
Will leave this setup and come back to it to play with different ideas.

The setting will be in Eritrea or Ethiopia, in arid mountain scrub (so not flat like this) for which I've found a number of photo references.

I've added a 3rd Italian, riding in the back, and have had to lose the snake charmer pot for him to sit on the crates...

My inclination is to try and keep it tight, a small footprint. Like most of my vehicle/figure photo work to date, I'm gonna try to pack drama into a small space. We'll see.

 

[BarleyBop]

Awaiting suitable terrain...

 

[Rockin' Rob]

That's neat! What scale is that? Haha? I mean, ho

 

[PatW]

Superb!

 

[BarleyBop]

That's neat! What scale is that? Haha? I mean, ho

It's a tiny vehicle for sure. Even at 1:35, it disappears in that long shot.
And if I'd added another guy hanging on to the tailgate, it would be Keystone Cops, Italian style!

Superb!

Thanks Pat, I think you must also have a soft spot for quirky but interesting vehicles!

It was a fun build, 3D printed kit. Once completed, I kinda forget the scratch modifications and brass additions, but I guess that's a good sign!

Another installment in my exploration of Italy's wonderful assortment of wheeled, winged and tracked designs, most of which were interwar; they just didn't have the industrial capacity to keep up once things really got rolling.

The other aspect, often overlooked, is how the main protagonists dragged their colonies into the fray.
These lads were not to be successful in expanding or defending Italian interests in East Africa.

 

[PatW]

Yes BarleyBop, anything Quirky!

 

[Jakko]

The other aspect, often overlooked, is how the main protagonists dragged their colonies into the fray.

IMHO, one of the best examples of that is the 81st and 82nd (West Africa) Divisions that the British raised. These were deployed a third of the way around the world to Burma, to fight the Japanese. The reasoning was that both Burma and West Africa have tropical jungle terrain, so West-African troops would have less trouble there than Europeans — which is fairly reasonable, except that the majority of the men who signed up in West Africa were from the cities and so had just as little experience with any kind of jungle as Europeans did.