271 Army
Leaders World War II, also issued in the larger
1:35th scale a few years later as set 450,
itself an odd act, as while it made them compatible with the Italeri and Heller kits of the day, there was no history of 50mm stuff from
Austria (or Germany), nor any forthcoming range of matching vehicles or other
kits from Roco.
The 'data list' on the back of the card is
in a different order to the presentation of the figures on the other side, who
are each in a separate blister with their title below. I seem to recall the
large scale set come similarly packed, but in one row?
Two Göring's;
there are two Göring's for some reason, a hundred allied or axis generals missing,
but two sculpts of a fat face-feeding Nazi airforce arsehole, when Roco only made a few aircraft and all of
them post-war helicopters - did they do a Storch?
Where's Himmler? It's a very odd choice of figures, no Monty or MacArthur?
Patton's absence explained by already being in the early US figure-sets (seen
earlier today).
If you're going to have even one Göring, where's the Dowding or 'Bomber' Harris? A De Gaulle, but no
Vichy? Speer, Franco, any Jap, Manstein, Guderian, poor old Paulus . . . Zhukov?
It's an eclectic line-up to say the least, but they are very well sculpted and
all pretty recognisable as to whom they are meant to be!
While back to the Goering thing; I guess
the sculptor played with a few alternative sculpts and two of them - for the
one personality - were considered so good, they couldn't choose which one to
run with, so ran them both? It's also worth noting that the two figures are to
all purposes the same sculpt - from the waist down! But even then - you have to
ask - why didn't they then make-up the set to a ten-figure count?
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