The soldiers are generic, not in a 'German'
[feldtgrau/field
gray] colour and wearing the bloused trousers of the occupation army's GI's or -
the then brand new - NATO forces from just about anywhere? The factory would
have been sandwiched between the US and French sectors of occupied (or
NATO-bulwark!) Germany.
Looking here at the base you can see it's a
three-ply, which for a while led me to believe these were larger than they are!
The finish however is not smooth, and you would expect rounded edges and smooth
surfaces in similar figures today, or from between the wars.
As well as another shot of the vessel; more
of an ocean-going tug-boat in a different scale to the yacht, we have a tank,
gun and two 'planes along with a selection of similar olive-green soldiers.
More clues to date are to be found here.
Again we see signs of austerity in the
aircraft, which, as well as looking home-made are both crude and poorly
finished, and where you would expect to see signs of lathe-turning they seem to
have been tapered by carving and sanding, and the small ones looks to have had its
nose shaped with a giant pencil-sharpener!
The tank, which may have been influenced by
British 'cruisers' or the American Sherman,
actually looks most like an Australian Sentinel
in profile, but is probably trying to be a Chaffee,
or even an M46/47 Patton?
While the two aeroplanes have the
swept-back tail-planes of post war jets but the wings of WWII fighters, indeed,
the larger one seems to have borrowed its wings from a Messerschmitt Me.109!
As most post-war aircraft were finished in
polished metal or silver-dope, we can consider the two to be airliners,
leaving, within the box as a whole, a small military sample mostly in the
not-aggressive poses of a garrison, with three chaps on the range, another sign
of war-fatigue and post-war manufacture?
Scale/sizing of all the main elements of
the military group, along with the aircraft. The gun is relatively in-scale
with the figures; the tank however, is a tiddler!
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