Bobbi Kukal sent this in to Small Scale World the
other day and it's fascinating as it manages to fill another unknown stock-number
in the inventory (see A-Z Entry), show most of the other 'known' foot-figure
poses and contains a model of an uncommon tank design, being the M60A2 'Starship' main battle tank (MBT), with the mad Sheridan 152mm/6-inch rocket-assisted Shillelagh projectile ammunition barrel-thing, going on there!
The ratio of ethnically black to white
troops in the known figure sets is around 1-in-5, here we get approximately
1-in-3, and a nice spread of six different poses. 3-each riflemen advancing,
standing and kneeling firing, 2-each advancing with-, and prone with;
machine-guns, and a chap with binoculars.
All are wearing the green beret, which
rather confirms my previous thought that this small series of toys were
piggy-backing the eponymous John Wane movie. It's also more obvious in this
shot that the larger sets get two standard backing-cards, un-separated; one
assumes there is a similar set for the M106
SPG already seen here.
Another shot of the M60A2 'Starship', definitely something to look out for on feeBay! There
is also another clue as to the line's apparent failure (or lack of popularity),
apart from, or in addition to the fact that it was released just as
anti-Vietnam War sentiment was at its highest, and/or the odd scale, is the fact
that the whole range including figures, armour and a WWII German Pak-40 gun were issued in a rather
insipid fawny-beige, with a green-blob camouflage.
There is no enemy, no European theatre or
desert option, no obvious Vietnamese troops have surfaced, no Russians, no
'reds', orange or blue-force . . . although you could make an enemy from the
even more uncommon Spencer Smith
'modern' troops, but each range is rare on the opposite side of the pond!
Now - of course - they have the charm of
old, unusual stuff, that you have to search-out, AND are depicting an unusual
subject - and this is the best to have surfaced yet - many-thanks Bobbi!
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