Albino Raven Lock N’ Load With New Machine Guns
September 27, 2015 by brennon
Albino Raven have shown off some of their modern military miniatures. The latest are a set of light infantry soldiers with Heavy Machine Guns or HMGs.
To still your worries these are actually in 28mm scale so these could be a perfect choice for the likes of Empress Miniatures' latest rules set, Danger Close.
You can see them here against a regular 28mm Cultist from Games Workshop. This means at True Scale they are a little bigger than most other models for Historical gaming.
I think these look great and are highly detailed. Hopefully we'll see them look at making more 28mm miniatures as this is becoming an era of warfare more people are interested in.
What do you think?
"...these could be a perfect choice for the likes of Empress Miniatures' latest rules set, Danger Close"
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Very nice, but are they HMG’s? Medium machine gun might be a better description – especially if it’s 7.62mm. Someone more qualified can tell me.
Those are rather good.
I don’t mind the being on the larger side that most, you do not give the heavy weapon to the squad runt after all
Sweet. Yup, definitely MMG’s. Great looking troops.
…this is the man who would know!
HMG would be something like a nifty-fifty or one of those soviet 12.7mm things.
Or the halfway-to-a-cannon 14.5mm monster.
Actually looks a lot like our C6 MMG (7.62):
http://www.casr.ca/101-army-smallarm-2.htm
Think its supposed to be a PKM..?
Might use to to add to the spectre miniatures squad I’m putting together. Anyone know how they would look together scale wise?
they look good.
If it is based on the American M60 it is considered a LMG by the Army’s TOE. However, if you ever had to ruck with one or jump with one, first it sucks and two it gets really heavy after a few miles.
The M60 was a beast! Sounds lovely though…
@piers – that’s what I thought too!
In the end it looks like a lot of different MG’s lol. Since NATO went to the 5.56 round for personal weapons, anything 7.62 would now be considered medium. It also looks like our C9 FN Minimi, which is 5.56, or even a U.S. SAW, but it’s too big and clunky looking. But then again, weapons are often made bigger on models. Anyone’s guess.
Also, “medium” is a designation used to indicate a sustained fire role i.e. a quick change out of a hot barrel, and a mounting bracket for a tripod.
Definitely a Medium Machine Gun by US Defintion and terminology, some sort of M240 equivilent, I really really wish sculptors would stop with this over hand carry pose. Thats not what that handle is used for. Whren patrolling with a M240 its slung like so:
When firing it is done from the prone or a braced position of some such. Never on the move.
Teh top carry hande is a the name suggest purely a carry handle to pick up and move around in a non tatical situation
Like so
http://www.popularairsoft.com/files/imagesmore/evike_matrive_240_bravo.jpg
Thanks @artyengineer . Funny how real life stuff gets all fudged by the internets 🙂