Although, some of this might hurt your eyes, but even the mighty falter and in the end, everything dies.
Toward the end,
Britains tried to get away from 'war' war, and the whole WWII, 'Boys Own', ♪♪♫Two World Wars and . . . ♪♫, "I mentioned it once . . but I think I got away with it / You started it!" type toy theme which had served British kid's so well since 1945, by adopting first this generic
UN theme, then some of the silliness below! Standard farm version of the Short Wheelbase (SWB)
Land Rover, given a
United Nations makeover. Here missing its 'hard-top'.
Using the late version US Infantry (solid sculpts, no moving, plug-in arms), accompanying UN troops (
Task Force Action Figures) were provided, along with several other paint schemes as 'enemy' or just other units, only available for a couple of years in the mid-1990's, they should be rare, but many retailers were left with unsold stock, and a few years ago most dealers had mint sets on their tables!
Arctic warriors?!
Sold with a desert version of the Land Rover as 'Desert Storm'!
75p was still a fair-bit of money for a kid in 1996, and that's for one figure!
The final indignity -
Task Force Special Units
I showed a few of the other-coloured ones on the Airfix Blog;
with more shots on the Modern British Infantry post.
Slightly safer ground with these, the two standard packagings for the earlier WWII-themed support weapons '
Combat Weapons', here the British Mortar (also given to the Germans) and the US Recoilless Rifle (also given to the Japanese!). There was a longer card, which was the display one, designed to sit across the top of the counter-top box, and sold last, after the box was empty.
There was an attempt to relaunch the range in the mid-2000's by First Gear, who had bought the intellectual property rights and a few of the moulds (most are with DSG in Argentina), and a couple of 'realistic' paint issues were forthcoming, I think these are the second tranche, the first having matt-green bases and better paint?
