{"id":9734,"date":"2019-03-19T17:33:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=9734"},"modified":"2019-03-22T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T08:29:19","slug":"british-heavy-weapons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/british-heavy-weapons-2\/","title":{"rendered":"British Heavy Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/british-heavy-weapons-2\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Our range of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/British.html\">15mm British sci-fi<\/a> figures already has several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/british-heavy-weapons\/\">tripod mounted crewed weapon<\/a> options available. However, we also have a second set of prone crewman figures (unreleased to this point) for which there were no weapon models. So we&#8217;ve made some new guns for them and added them to our Salute line-up.<\/p>\n<p>The first weapon is an anti-tank rifle, although that rather antiquated name is a bit of a misnomer as it&#8217;s somewhat more advanced than the Boyes weapon of WW2 vintage. This one is mounted on a tripod and also has a gun shield for the crew and will give a serious headache to a light tank or APC.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9736\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/british-heavy-weapons-2\/sf15-168a-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SF15-168a-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SF15-168a\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;British AT Rifle&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SF15-168a-1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SF15-168a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9736\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second weapon is a twin-MG, inspired by our 6mm heavy weapon. This will put a huge amount of firepower downwind in the direction of any enemy infantry. Each pack contains two weapons each with two crew, a gunner and a loader with rifle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9737\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/british-heavy-weapons-2\/sf15-168b\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SF15-168b.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SF15-168b\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;British Twin MG&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SF15-168b.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SF15-168b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9737\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SF15-168a &#8211; Anti-tank Rifle Team (x2) &#8211; \u00a33.00<br \/>\nSF15-168b &#8211; Twin MG Team (x2) &#8211; \u00a33.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our range of 15mm British sci-fi figures already has several tripod mounted crewed weapon options available. However, we also have a second set of prone crewman figures (unreleased to this point) for which there were no weapon models. So we&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/british-heavy-weapons-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,14,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15mm-sf","category-previews","category-salute-2019"],"views":2385,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SF15-168a-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2x0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9753,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/neo-soviet-heavy-weapons\/","url_meta":{"origin":9734,"position":0},"title":"Neo-Soviet Heavy Weapons","author":"Tony","date":"March 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Not to be outdone by the British, our Neo-Soviets get some new heavy weapon teams in 15mm as well. Like the Brits there are two sets, but with different weapons. The first team has a tripod mounted heavy tribarrel weapon, while the other has an automatic grenade launcher. 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The weapons are the same ones supplied with our PacFed figures - we had a little bit of trouble getting the original weapons to cast, so opted to use\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;15mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"15mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/15mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SF15-165a.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SF15-165a.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SF15-165a.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SF15-165a.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16588,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/multipurpose-gun-mounts\/","url_meta":{"origin":9734,"position":2},"title":"Multipurpose Gun Mounts","author":"Tony","date":"June 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A friend at our club recently asked us if we could make a small resin base to replace a missing piece from a second hand model he'd picked up at a bring-and-buy. His suggestion was that to make it worthwhile we could turn it into a general purpose gun mount,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;15mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"15mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/15mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BasesRelease.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BasesRelease.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BasesRelease.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BasesRelease.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9793,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2019\/03\/cdsu-remote-weapons\/","url_meta":{"origin":9734,"position":3},"title":"CDSU Remote Weapons","author":"Tony","date":"March 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Following on from the new British and Neo-Soviet weapons teams, we can add new remote weapons teams for our 15mm CDSU (Chinese) forces. 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