Just a box ticker to get something up here for this afternoon! The Lone Star Germans reduced somewhat!
This is the contents of a full set, almost
certainly from the D-Day play-set with large vac-form, you get (got; 60+-years
ago!) eight each of the six figure poses downscaled to an HO-gauge compatible
23-odd millimetre size along with two of the sub-scale (N-gauge) Land Rovers
from the Treble-O-Trains range range,
but in a dark olive, satin finish, rather than the bright, gloss red, black or
British racing-green of the railway versions, giving a 50-piece count - 100
with the Paratrooper opo's; we'll look at another day.
The painting here has been restricted to a
stab-and-hope dash of matt, flesh-pink in the vague areas of the face and hands
- check-out the flame-thrower operators!
Later they seem to have done service as
Chinese troops (probably referring to the Korean conflict) with an all-over
gloss-red hat and while one might be tempted to imagine that this headgear
embellishment was home painting; note that A) the flesh (better registered) is
also now gloss and . . .
. . . B) another out-painter has gone with
a more detailed attempt at the red-star, Chinese troops (and later the
Vietcong) carried on their soft hats; both colours are also in a gloss-finish.
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