Italian Lancia 3 Ro Gun Truck

The Royal Italian army was thrust into the Second World War unprepared an underequipped. While this has led to sometimes unwarranted representations of their performance, the Italians often displaced ingenious efforts to overcome their material deficits. One such example is the Lancia 3 Ro 100/17 gun truck.

Mounted a Skoda 100/17 gun, with optional front pintle mounted Breda MMG for both FDM and resin printing The Italians mounted the Skoda 100/17 field gun (a medium howitzer in b the Bold action game system) – itself a WW1 weapon captured from the Austro-Hungarians in that war – in their field workshops inn Africa. About 20 such conversions were completed. employed it in North Africa, although a fairly crude affair  - the gun crew was fully exposed – the vehicles provided valuable mobile support for the Axis in that theatre.