All,
You've seen my Winter Germans, so time to see my Winter Americans (and soon you'll see my Winter Soviets). I didn't paint or assemble a single thing in these pics, these all came from "King's Colours" on Ebay. He does a great job building out a rifle platoon that's pretty close, if not exact, to the TO&E, and he does a great job painting and basing the troops, weapons, and vehicles. I'd love to buy more stuff from him, but I just don't have any more big forces that I need to buy from him…
Pair of NCOs with submachine guns.
Couple officer types. You can see the size difference between Warlord's plastics (left) and metals (right).
A couple of men with Browning Automatic Rifles.
A pair of frozen riflemen with Garands.
And an M10 Wolverine, white-washed.
To see a bunch more photos, please check the blog at:
link
I'm definitely going to buy a couple boxes of these to build a USMC platoon for Chosin Reservoir; I'd have done it already but I can't seem to find any reasonably priced Chinese (Warlord's are metal and come in packs of 10 to 12 troops for around $35 USD (to put it in perspective, Warlords' plastics are usually about $45 USD for thirty figures), and that ain't gonna cut it, I need too many of them. I've priced them as cheap as I can find them and it's coming to about $450 USD to get around 75 infantry (rifles, SMGs, and LMGs) plus a couple MG teams, mortar teams, and flamethrower teams. Not gonna cut it, I need someone to do some cheap plastics or 3D printed guys that will come in much cheaper.
All in all another good force, but I want to get a 'regular' machine gun team, and I also need an anti-tank gun to top these guys off. Then I'll get to my Marines for Korean War ;)
V/R,
Jack
looks at a multi-period building.
