3 is for Has Anyone Seen the Other Two?

Soldier Combat Set 3 received with thanks from Peter Evans a few weeks ago, this set is imported by BGC Limited of Manchester.

Not so much a box-ticker as an aid to recognition! There are so many of these in so many packagings it's nice to put any name to them for the purpose of sorting them out (if you're not among those who avoid this stuff altogether), and BGC will have to do for now!

Pose-count seems to be around the 8-mark, with Matchbox 8th Army and Afrika Korps providing most of the 'inspiration', the other guy is hard to place and such a poor sculpt he could pass for many or any past figures in the same pose - I think he's meant to be one of the New-Ray poses!

Obviously they are sub-piracies of the figures we looked at the other day, and common sculpts for 'Armymen' at the moment, there's a slight colour variation in the orange-brown ones, partially lost in the photography.

Super Military Series - Thank you Peter.

Added as I was editing . . . Brian Berke's painted-up China-troops, I thought maybe the Ocean figures but Brian thinks they may be someone else like the Shing Hing we looked at the other day, as they came in a larger set, to quote Brian "My clones were blue plastic from a bag with four colour figures, blue British, grey Germans, cream Japanese and green GI's." which sounds more SH, or Jaru? Whoever made them they paint-up as well as the original Matchbox sculpts, nes't pas? . . . as Hercule would say!

Brain also mentioned that he thought the Timpo 'Action pack' Bren-gunner was the best and I totally agree with him on that, the whole set was good, the Monty was excellent although I never liked the bayoneting chap and the mine-clearer was a bit wooden, but wouldn't you be if your next false move could blow you into the world-after-next!