"On 28mm US Army infantry for 1943-44..." Topic

A few months back I posted a query about figures for use in Italian battles 1943-44. People kindly came up with a few options.
Now I'm acquiring, assembling and painting this force, I reckon there's quite a significant gap in the market. Seems nobody has really done such figures to a high standard – like a Perry Miniatures or Assault Group level of sculpting.
The Warlord plastics have very odd proportions – big heads and short legs. And while some of their sprue design is very smart, making it possible to really get some variation into the five basic figure types, other aspects of it are odd. They sell you 25 soldiers, but the weapons sprues will give you 15 M1 rifles or 12 Springfields. But if you use your 25 figures to make up 2 squads you will most likely need 18-20 rifles.
I've bought some Black Tree Design too. A nice full range, better proportions than Warlord. But some oddities also like the shape of their helmets.
Artizan – I know many people like them put their posing (nb positions of legs and hands on weapons) is just plain odd.
Wargames Factory – in M44 uniform so just about Ok for Normandy onwards, though they are very nicely done if late war battles are your thing.
So there's quite a gap there really…
EC

I agree. I have some of the Warlord's US Infantry and my first thought was that I was missing a weapon's sprue. I realize that folks like to use SMGs and the like but the reality is that the vast majority of infantrymen carried the M1, with the M1/M2 carbine probably a distant second (folks who didn't "shoot for a living" like radio operators, Squad and Platoon leaders, mortar crews and the like, but even a fair number of them carried the M1 when they could). I also find the large number of 03 Springfields curious as, aside from snipers, not many people were carrying them in combat on 43-45. So yeah, there is a gap for good American Infantrymen for both the MTO and ETO. Or maybe I'm just missing some.

@jowady
I'm thinking the lack of interest in our discussion may give some inkling as to why no manufacturer has come up with a really top notch US Army range ;-)
EC

Victory Force has a good selection of US Army. Check 'em out.

What about Tamiya's 1/48 ones ?

@Huron725
By George! Those Victory Force guys look nice. Any idea how they scale up compared with the other well known makes – e.g. Black Tree or Perry?
Anyone got any idea whether they have a UK stockist? We're a long way from Kansas (Dorothy…)
EC

VF are big and don't scale well with BTD or Perry. No UK distributor AFAIK.

Thanks for that Fred – even if it wasn't what I wanted to hear :-(