So not an 'Walmart Exclusive' at all, and while I thank Brian again for the
earlier shelfies, we can now tick the close-up box!
The "Bonus"
base is also the lid, so if there was no 'bonus' the contents would presumably fly
everywhere, thus we see the 'fake-news' hype of highfalutin' sales-talk in
action! I also said at Christmas that I liked the sniper, cable-tied to the
lid, but not enough to hang-on to him [with the lid], so the lid went to
charity with the tub, half-full of the duplicate poses.
Before sorting; the box has a tall wedge of
card running-up inside, through the centre, but it's not that wide at the
bottom, and to be fair to Lanard,
seems to have less to do with 'padding-out' falsely and more to do with ensuring
that the numerous contents are displayed in a tall, slim container, by keeping
them pressed against the sides.
The figures, mostly based on the old Galoob X-panders figures as
previously stated. The prone figure has a soft jungle-hat and would seem to be
a more recent addition, and all of them have been 'de-spaced' and brought back
to planet earth with a 'Fritz' helmet and an urban-warfare, light belt-order
make-over! Weapons are still quite spacey though.
Two machine-guns are supplied loose (you need four!) in the
set, they fit into two holes on the lid, and both a sandbag position and a
small stand found among the contents, the latter is supposed to sit behind a
rather lame 'sanger' made of three pieces, these are the colour-matched
accessories 'sand' force get!
Bit's of artwork you may be interested-in;
the figures in the artwork are a sort of fantasy/post-apocalyptic mix of
cyber-punk ner'do wells bearing no relationship with the figures included
whatsoever!
The other contents, the barbed-wire
'entanglements' went to charity along with the two sandbag barricades, but I
kept the security fences, they are quite useful, as are the angle-iron beach
obstacles/tank traps.
The tank supplied to red-force is a generic
M1-Abrahms/Challenger-I type thing and was kept for it's similarity to other
simple 'readymades', from the green-force armory; the plane went, but I hung-on
to the helicopter.
Again - while a lot of this is typical 'padding' it hasn't been enhanced with a bunch of crappy farm fence, trees, cactuses or palms, which is another point in Lanard's favour? It's war you want - it's war you get!
The 'walker' is lovely - from the front!
But from the back reveals it's cheapness, as a hollowed-out single moulding,
likewise the revolving 'head' looks fine from above, but at least it's hollow
is hidden while in situ. One day I will fill it in with two-part epoxy, add a
few greeblies and paint it, before posing it with 28mm fig's!
The three part helicopter is a bit sci-fi
but equally, similar machines are coming into service or are under development,
so it's gone in the Heli-zone, the 'plane went - for obvious reasons - and you
can see that the tank is simpler that Airfix's venerable old mouldings.
Trying to photograph - one-handed - a
tank-hunter on a thread creeping-up on a robot killing-machine (when the thread
is in the other hand) proved a bit of a tall order, so it's a tad fuzzy!
2 comments:
I have one of these sets from Smyths toy store at Easter this year. Not posted about them or painted them yet. Useful to join the Star Wars 54mm plastic Britain's Star Fleet and Airfix Space Warriors in my Planet Yarden outdoor Close Little Star Wars games. This plastic set with bizarre accessories made my inner (1979s Star Wars generation) child very happy ...
The helicopter is growing on me, it looks like something in the Western papers about 30-years ago, predicting future Soviet designs!!
What actually arrived (Havok and Hokum) were boringly predictable and much like others in their class!
H
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