"Little band of brothers." Topic

Question: Those figures (nice by the way) can work for the Italian threatre of war only or for France and North Africa too?
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Thanks in advance for your help.

Amicalement
Armand

Ah I have a few of these wonderful Artizan figures. Armand, United States infantry uniform and kit varied very little in the various theaters. These would be good for North Africa, Sicily, Italy, D-Day, European Theater of Operations. However, if you are wanting to do Band of Brothers those were United States Airborne and had a very different uniform. Although the weapons would be pretty much the same. And of course, Artizan makes very nice US Airborne for WW II.

The US airborne had 2 different uniforms
This shows you the different uniforms
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Wow, these are fairly new sculpts I think. I haven't seen them before until now. They're listed as 'Devil's Brigade' in Artizan's online catalog. 'Devil's Brigade' was a joint US-Canadian special operations unit in WWII, but these figures look like they can be used as generic American infantry in Africa or Northwest Europe well enough.

But they're definitely not Airborne, as in 82nd or 101st if you're thinking about using them as such.

Fanatik was not the Devil's Brigade the origination of the Rangers? They are nice and Mike Owens just keeps getting better with his sculpts. I think I will have to add these to my WW II collection.

Yeah, you can tell they're Mike's sculpts clearly enough but they are a bit better than his previous ones from years ago. His new sculpts, not just these Americans but also the German Heer, are subtly different. The weapons are less exaggerated in thickness and are more detailed. Plus, the trouser dressing is better and doesn't look as inflated as his previous sculpts'.

if these are supposed to be Memers of the First Special Service Force, then you need to have two specific uniform items on them to be Forcemen: paratrooper boots and mountin trousers with big baggy pockets on the thighs,

Its hard to tell at this scale, but it looks like there are the thigh pockets, only possibly not in the right place, and I guess they are jump boots- I can't really tell if they are supposed to have leggings or not. And in theory a V42 knife and a cavalry ammo belt. a Parka would be nice, but not really needed.

Of course at least one should then have an M1941 Johnson machine gun, but it would kill the sculpt for any other unit. I can't comment on th reverse as I can't fine a shot of it.

As for them bring used for anything else, If you make the trousers HBT fatiques, you can kind of fudge them into whatever you want. The boots kind of look like they would easily paint up into leggings as well, so you could make them into all kinds of things.

And yes, I did extensivly debrief a number of Forcemen about their uniforms and equipment many years ago. So I am a bit obessive about these things. But then if someone were to make an incorrect shoulder pad on a fictional Space Marine(tm) everyone would scream bloody murder!.

Hmm, they look like they'd work for 1950's grade-B Sci Fi movies, where the National Guard gets called out to deal with giant ants, or giant spiders, or aliens…

I don't know nuthin' about which theatre of WW II they'd be good in, but they'd be good for the sewars of L.A. or the Nevada deserts

Fanatik was not the Devil's Brigade the origination of the Rangers?

The Rangers were formed independently of the First Special Service Force, the 1st ranger Battalion predated the "Devil's Brigade" and fought in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. After the disastrous battle of Cisterna, where all but six Rangers from the 1st and 3rd Battalions were either killed or captured, the survivors were transferred to the 1st Special Service Force.

The idea of Rangers in the US of course goes back to "Rogers Rangers in the FIW, but the closest inspiration for the WW2 Battalions were the Royal Marine Commandos.

Many thanks for your great guidance guys!.

Amicalement
Armand