G is for Generations of GI

Flagged a couple of posts ago (I'm alternating figure posts and mini-vehicle posts to get some stuff cleared out of Picasa . . . while catching-up . . . a bit!), these are the US troops from Comansi I picked-up at the London Toy Soldier Show a while-ago.

Pretty wacky, and definitely in the 'toy' section of the model-soldier venn diagram, and we seem to have the three main generations here, with a early one at the top, realistic olive-drab plastic, four-colour paint-job and a smooth, slightly clipped-corner, ovoid base.

Below him to the left is a simpler one with the raised-edge base in more of a pointed-end lozenge and to his right a late, unpainted one in a bright, 'infant' colour plastic.

Not sure about the grey paint on bottom-left, or the grey plastic of top-middle for that matter! But clearly there were many tranches/issues/batches of these over the years, note the all-over painted one is white plastic under the paint - he may be a home-painted 'bright' one?

A couple of bazooka men, again, is the yellow one a home-paint? And again with the grey plastic, were they issued as Marines in grey or something? I thought this might be a interesting post, but it's raising more questions than answers!

From the colour I'm guessing the flag-man (10 stripes and 24 stars??) was an early shot of the late base type as he matched the flat-based one in the first shot, the bottom two are grey and green again?

Previously seen elsewhere shot of them all, all is proves is there's a lot to collect if you want one of each . . . I think I'll stop at this lot, I may have a couple more in the storage GI's and I could grab some more of the late, bright-colours if I see them going cheap, just for a wider sample, but . . . well; they're nothing to write home about, although you can get a Blog-post out of them!