The grenade thrower hasn't got a weapon at
all, but then when you learn to throw grenades while ice-skating; I would
imagine a weapon would play merry-hell with your balance!
The running guy on the other-hand is a
reasonable pose, running forward with a gate that if looked at closely suggests
he's gone too far forward to get the other leg back in time and is seconds-way
from a muddy head-plant!
Stabby-guy is clearly tackling the knee of
a cyclops, or King Kong!
The forth pose is in a blind panic and
running from something that would certainly give you nightmares where I to divulge
its finer details to you; so I won't, but think Cloverfield . . . with bigger claws!
I used to assume (as a small-scale
collector) that there must be 6 or 8 (or more) of these given the usual set
counts of Cherilea, then I spent a
good few years thinking there were five for some reason, or no good reason.
However I believe that when Dorset (or whoever) put the mould back in
production a few years ago, there were only the four?
Of which the first three (above) are mine,
these other six were shot at a show somewhere, sometime, and the left-hand two
of these pairs were duplicates then, showing the variety of plastic
'base-colour' and the fact that they are all flecked.
I wonder if these weren't the same thing to
Cherilea as the Super Deetail were to Britains
- a bit of an experiment? Which is not to say Cherilea hadn't used flecking before, but . . . they're an odd lot?
I picked these two up at Witton in May, I
might have already added to the other three (in storage) but don't think so,
which means I'm still looking for terrified running bloke!
I don't know what's happening with
pinky-mauve chap, the other is in a sensible brown scheme, and all of them
(including the green-painted one at the top) follow the painting of the 50mm
set with the various piracies, maybe these replaced them, or were pencilled-in
for the task?
You know, I've long looked for a rational explanation for the overhead bayonet pose. Since that's such a terrible pose for actually fighting with a bayonet. The only thing I can make up to make me happy about it is that it's supposed to represent fording some water and trying to keep the rifle dry. You see a few pics of that from WWII landings or Vietnam paddies.
ReplyDeleteThis excuse works better for the Timmee version of the pose, where he's fairly relaxed looking. As you say, this guy is overly animated, so he MIGHT be fighting Mothra.
Mothra! That would work! Maybe he's just trying to get a mouse out of his biscuit cupboard?!!!
ReplyDeleteCheers CounterFett!
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