I was going to put this on the 'But is it
Giant' Blog, but feel as new/newish-production it should be here, that Blog
(which hasn't had a post for a while . . . ?) is really for pre-2000 or even
pre-1990 'vintage' stuff.
We've seen the green set before, on the
runner, but Peter Evans sent a whole bunch of them loose in a parcel
six-or-more months ago, and they included a whole set of the same poses in
black, so here they all are together from both sides. I hadn't previously
encountered them, but Chap Mai have
issued various big-box sets over the years, including some store-branded
generics, maybe one had 'goodies & baddies'; their own sets tend to have a
single un-clipped runner?
We can then . . . now (?) run through all
the charity-shop purchases of vehicles, with the new figures . . . for the hell
of it! The M1 Abrahms type is a bit
on the small side for the 25mm-odd figures, but the five kneeling poses look
better.
The M2/3
Bradley/A-Cav MICV is also a bit small, but looks better with standing
figures although the one on the left is more helicopter- than AFV-crew?
Hummers stop for a nosey-about, but they
aren't paying attention to the Shat-al-Arap waterway where the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard's frogmen have a bone to pick with Uncle Sam!
Topical humour there, unless you're on the end a Trump-triggered,
state-sponsored terrorism 'incident'! The language is lovely these days isn't
it? The Coca-cola Games - The Iranian Maimings, The KGB Slow Painful Death
Incidents!
Lannies also park-up in 'all round
defence', but the spanner's come out - How very 'British Army Procurement'!
The Land
Rover and the Hummers are the only ones with the clip-receiving protrusions
on the underside (see posts passim under Chap
Mai) for parachuting, on a little pallet, out of the big Hercules/Transall/Galaxy transport
aircraft play-sets. I guess the others must be from more recent sets involving
less parachutes? Although I'm guessing, they will all be on the old Index and Argos catalogues I keep meaning to go though!
The 'Rambo-squad' pulls-up! Jeep Wrangler 'technical' and rather
odd-shaped/sized 6x6 truck of vague WWII vintage (which despite the looks
actually holds-up well against the Airfix
readymade) who are my latest two procurements (in the course of last year) and
must also be from more recent/less common sets, as they definitely weren't in
the old adverts, but they have the same wheels as the other soft-skins.
I still need to do the same paint-removal
job on the jeep bonnet (hood)'s 'SOLDIER' artwork - leaving the allied
air-recognition star - as I did on the 6x6 'deuce-and-a-half'. In point of fact
- that these two are both 'new' to turn-up and in a new colour and have the
same bonnet-markings strengthens the case that they are from a newer set,
possibly the source of the equally 'new' (to me) black figures?
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