Reverse Mountaineering: Alpini

Time to start putting it all together. I put some gravel on the bases pre priming , which is not what I normally do, I guess we will see how that turns out

So this is what I have accumulated so far.

Looking at the books there wasn’t any evidence of them using the armoured car in the Alps, even though it was in service in 1940. It seems to be mostly tankettes and Sermoventes. Not a problem I have a bunch Sermovente kits… somewhere.

Inbound are a couple of tankettes, a forward observation team and an AT gun.

While visiting the Warlord factory back in 2025 they had an offer on for the Italian forces , however I wanted Italians that were compatible with North Africa, looking at the back of the box I saw that there was one guy painted in desert colours, so I picked up a box of the infantry and a Berisliagi starter army.

Later I found out that the Alpini didn’t really feature in Africa.

Arse.

As time went by I accumulated various extra pieces for the Alpini , support weapons,specialists and commanders. So I had enough for a starter force with a few extra bits.

With my rescued French army done and dusted, I had two forces potentially for a bit of a dust up in the Alps. I saw a book had been published covering the topic. It’s not a well covered part of World War 2 so I snapped up a copy out of curiosity.

I also stumbled across a YouTube video of some annoyingly cheerful bloke who finds weird things on Google earth then hikes up to them. He had found a load of old fortifications and pill boxes in the Alps, handy for a couple of terrain ideas.