"U.S. Troops" Topic
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| Stepman3 | 10 Oct 2016 6:23 a.m. PST |
Looking for 1980ish Cold War era US troops wearing the M1 Helmet armed with the M16. I suppose I could use TAG Vietnam era miniatures but curious about how they size up against Eureka Russians. Eureka does have US troops in MOP gear but I'm not really liking them too much…Thank you… |
Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 10 Oct 2016 11:29 a.m. PST |
What scale? Airfix did HO scale plastic US, NATO, and Soviet troops in the 1980s. |
| Col Durnford | 10 Oct 2016 12:09 p.m. PST |
The TAG Vietnam range is on the large and bulky size and I believe Eureka are somewhat thinner. They will mix mostly. I would be more concerned with the actual look of the TAG (or any Vietnam type like Baker Company or WestWind) The open shirts and rolled sleeves may not fit as well with the button up Soviets. BTW – The Eureka figures I have seen are excellent. |
| Stepman3 | 10 Oct 2016 1:19 p.m. PST |
The TAG ones are nice but on the larger side… |
| Mike Bravo Miniatures | 10 Oct 2016 2:38 p.m. PST |
I'm hesitant to put these out there as some of them still need to be fixed before they can get back into production, but we (will) have mid 80s US by the end of the year (or earlier if I can). The plan is to release them in M1s too at around the same time. These are at the slender end of the market. link (Larger pics @ link ) |
| David Hinkley | 10 Oct 2016 3:38 p.m. PST |
VCarter Regarding your statement "I would be more concerned with the actual look of the TAG (or any Vietnam type like Baker Company or WestWind) The open shirts and rolled sleeves may not fit as well with the button up Soviets". I was stationed in Germany (8 ID) in 1975-77, the summer uniform was rolled up sleeves and un-bloused (i.e. not tucked in) fatigue shirts for both garrison and field. The change over date was early in May, I remember because that Friday they also turned off the heat in the barracks, the BOQ and family quarters that day and we had several inches of snow. They did get us permission for us to roll down our sleeves that day. But they were not able to get the heat on till Monday, no fuel deliveries on the weekend. As to open shirts, they were discouraged in the field but USAEUR at the time was a semi- peacetime army trying to eradicate the "bag habits" the Army picked up in Vietnam. Had active hostilities started the enforcement of uniform regulations would not be high on any ones priority list. By the way both white and green T-shirts were permitted, but in the Infantry we tried to wear the green ones in the field. |
| Col Durnford | 11 Oct 2016 12:41 p.m. PST |
I stand corrected. Thanks, Vince |
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