With all the hideously expensive figures
coming out of that part of the world, these ship anywhere in the world - with
postage - for less than 20-quid (they were £7-something, all-in to me I think,
as $6 plus post) and were here about two weeks earlier than the estimate!
You get eight figures and two scenic
accessories, the later being two sprigs of synthetic fish-tank pond weed with
separate bases, while the former consist of five figures clearly copied from Airfix's Afrika Korps!
Stripping off the personal equipment,
adding jackboots and converting the helmet to one of more Russian lines hasn't
worked terribly well, as the Mauser rifles haven't been touched and the split-tailed
jackets aren't terribly Soviet-looking!
With five of the figures being poorish
copies, one had to assume these too would be from someone else, possibly King & Country or Del Prado, but in fact they are direct copies of otherwise expensive figures from Pervublivus (or whatever they're called these days!), and plastic versions of metal (or overpriced plastic) figures are a boon to our collections, not that one should encourage piracy . . . but once it's happened . . . !
Winter troops (against the 'summer' kit of
the other five) we have a chap in a quilted jacket, and officer (who is a bit Starlux-like?) and another soldier in
the loose snow-suit. Other sets have the figures in reversed plastic
colours from this set.
All together; I like these! They are proper
rack-toys, proper 'toy' soldiers! They tick all the boxes - cheap, copies, two
colours, naff accessories, header-carded bottle-bag . . . I hope we see more
from Biplant in a similar vein - I
know of knights and a set of more modern Speznaz / internal security types
from the same maker, also eight figures but all one colour with three bits of
pond weed!
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