MC is for My Chap's . . . Geddit!

I know, I know, I'd shoot myself, myself, if I wasn't having so much fun spouting nonsense in the general direction of the Internet! Just a quickie following up on several previous visits to these Chap Mai modern combat, small scale types.

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?