Except these Jeeermuns are enemy Fokkers! An oldie, but a goodie, unless you're a German reader, in which case my apologies, but in the original, it is funny! The internet can't agree whether Roy 'Chubby' Brown or Stan Boardman were responsible for the original, but I first heard it from Brown, so tend to credit him, however Boardman himself, credits an episode of This is Your Life, with Eamon Holmes, while other sources claim WWII Ace Douglas Bader, or the RAF in general for an apocryphal wives-tale!
Having removed the Plasma tent and British stretcher-team, we're left with a few shots of the Timpo Germans, so as a bit of a box-ticker . . .
. . . the 'eye candy' is the German stretcher-team and casualty, who is the same as the British one, but in grey plastic, the figures with their cross-straps and high-boots were a new sculpt.
Variations on a theme, the
MG-34 gunner as issued on the left, in the middle a No.2 has been created with the ammo-box from the
Vickers MG vignette, while a No.3 guard/spotter carries a rifle, he should have the tripod, but he seems to have lost it in the fog of battle, spare barrels and marker poles would be the responsibility of the No.2. Last version over-moulded head on the left, with less-common oxide-brown base.
This shot, courtesy of Theo Van de Weerden shows a few more poses, including my favourite, the
MP-38/40 SMG chap, also with one of the less common late colour bases, and this was the only set with two obvious officers- no infantry Y-straps, and a
Luger/Mauser holster.
The 1976, '77 and '78
Timpo catalogues reversed the infantry set's image, so we get several left-hookers, something
Airfix managed to do with their WWI reissue box-art a while ago!
Always worth remembering; the art & design and press/marketing departments are jobbing employees, not geeks, not historians, not modellers nor toy soldier enthusiasts, if they were, we wouldn't still be getting the Airfix Sd.Kfz.234 with those ridiculous toy mudguards!
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