"Tim Mee M16 Army Men in Cyan and Rust Brown" Topic

My review of the Tim Mee Cyan and Russet M16 Army Men

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Interesting. I always wondered where they got that LMG.

Ed

I always thought it might be a stoner with a ridiculous bipod.

Don't knock the 3.5" bazooka. Most western armies still had it into the late seventies!

During my service, the US no longer used the 3.5. We had the M72 LAW and recoilless rifles. That being said, a 3.5 inch shaped charge would be formidable.

Tim Mee was not the only one with the odd light machine gun. Either the jungle GI Joe or Special Forces GI Joe was advertised in a comic book showing him with the experimental machine gun. When they actually made the Jungle / Special Forces weapons, they had a conventional M60 with a belt of bullets. And the early M16s made for GI Joe had a wooden butt stock.

I was working on making a squad of figures both standing and squatingor under cover. So for instance the commander walking with a 1911 and binoculars would be cut with a figure squatting. The bazooka squat firer would get a walking bottom. But connection was the problem.

There are some Chinese knockoffs that did just that: swap torsos and legs. You can find that on Ebay and at Amazon.

I assumed the machine gunner had a bren gun, why I never knew.
As a kid I literally had a battalion, but like all my toys I tossed them away.

I had a bunch of these as a kid in the late 70's early 80's. I always wondered why US soldiers had a bren gun. Didn't know enough about period equipment back then to know the bazooka was out of date. I had some matching vehicles too. A tank (I think M-48), jeep and howitzer, truck with removable canvas top and helicopter. When I was about 15 my cousin and I sent the boys of to war with .22 rifles. It was a fun afternoon of plinking our old toys but I miss them and wish we hadn't destroyed them.