F is for Failed Fighting Force

With one dying, one wounded and crawling away hors du combat and another already surrendered and walking from the field unarmed, while an officer stands there doing very little, this has to be one of the most hopeless sets for army-building ever made, but the box still needs to be ticked . . .

. . . for Cherilea's Germans. They came in various shades of grey (as Wehrmacht or Waffen SS) or green (as Deutches Afrika Korps), and were reissued more recently by the Marlborough-Dorset-Hill's enterprise in an interesting shade best called field-turquoise! Six poses becomes seven with a wardrobe change for the Officer!

Colour variations of both paint and plastic exist, although I have yet to track-down any dark-grey Germans I know they are out there. Also a base-shot from one of the reissues, it's the standard full set of marks you find on a lot of the earlier figures, especially the 60mm ones.

The DAK chap is the copy, he's smaller and has lost detail from his pockets, badges & decorations and on his face, where the monocle has become a nasty scar on his cheek! By pantograph or other method they copied their own figure and gave him shirt-sleeve order with baggy shorts.

Comparison with a few other German infantry; as well as being a useless fighting force, they are two large for most other figures you are likely to have, except the Marx Warriors of the World, but they are very different looking.