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It soon proved to be a very handy and versatile weapon: the launcher itself weighed only 40kg, placed on a semi-circular base-plate. This meant that it could be used in many places that the much heavier Minenwerfer had no access to, as it often got very difficult to move these rather heavy pieces over muddy or shot-up terrain. This spigot-type mortar could be used to throw a 2kg fin-stabilized shell as short as 50meters but also up to maximum effective range of some 300 meters - 500meters was the theoretical max range. (The Granatenwerfer also used other types of grenades, some lighter than 2kg, som heavier.) The small grenades caused a very typical, tell-tale whirring sound when going through the air (it was caused by the sheet metal stabilizing fins) which caused the French to nicknamed it Pigeon, Turtledove. It was hardly a name of affection, as the small Granatenwerfer was seen as a very deadly weapon: according to the French it wounded more men than the much bigger light Minenwerfer. The basis for my model is the Granatenwerfer that comes with the German WW1 Heavy Weapons Set, but corrected and detailed. All work was sone in one evening, basically in one sitting. Once in a while, I enjoy doing these really simple projects. And now it has become the smallest model by far, in my Model collection! Click on the thumbnails to see more views of this model (notice that on these, the model will appear larger than life):
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