It's only an overview as I have a mere eight
figures myself and one of them's got a question mark over his weapon . . .
. . . the second figure from the left here.
The 'European Theatre' figures, possibly meant to be NATO forces or US GI's,
they have a mix of vaguely post-war weaponry, vaguely WWII German webbing and vaguely
British 'Battle-dress', although the struggling German war economy of 1944 had
adopted copies of the battle dress for their forces, so they can be WWII from
that point, but these aren't Germans, we'll get to them in a minute!
Helmets are US M1/'NATO-standard', so I
think of them as US, although the third guy along from the left is carrying
something closely equating to the EM2, looked at here in the past. Of my
eight, six came in their separate little bags, two didn't and the second figure
here seems to have a non-Elastolin
weapon and to have stolen his base from an Afrika Korps-man!
The 'German Infantry' looking a bit
too-grey, and far too-Nazi; with their black helmets, of all the swoppets of
the 1960's and '70's (these were late to the party), the Elastolin ones are among the least-accurate, but (as you would
expect with Hausser) well engineered
and quite animated.
The DAK get solar toupees (so we know
exactly who they are and where they are fighting!) and red-brown webbing, the
grenade is an odd design; very small and easy to lose, while both the grenadier
and officer can hold something in their other hands but I forgot to borrow
weapons from the others before photographing them!
I'd forgotten to borrow weapons when
shooting the others to, and here we see the radioman given a Mauser rifle!
The rifle is a good representation of the
original, while the 'EM2' is a bit long, the extra length being in the foregrip -
I suspect it's trying to be a G3, but it's neither really! The AK-lookalike is obviously
not Elastolin, but as I don't know -
offhand - where it came from/belongs, and as it's needed by one of the figures,
I keep it with him - for now!
The grenade is a 'pineapple' type
fragmentation grenade, the bazooka and pistol are both simplified and the
walkie-talkie is of US design-influence. Sold from shop-stock/counter-display
boxes, each figure has a little bag to live in and they are clearly marked on
the base-underside Germany which
means - for the PSTSM's TJF - that they must be Italian (link) but not Nardi!
While I was photographing the GI's the DAK
recce-patrol was laid-waste by a dessert rat, but a dessert rat who would
happily eat real dessert rats for breakfast!
Secrets of Small Scale World's photography,
number 347; Laundry day provides a range of new backgrounds prior to folding
and putting-away - Elastolin Swoppets
get the t-shirts; green-wash!
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