the last two poses are so bad. come on...the barrel into the ground?! and the guy with the grenade is looking at it like he never seen it before! a bad set!
One figure has his weapons barrel in the dirt, even the most inexperienced soldier would not do such a thing and if he did the other troops and the SGT would be all over him. One pose has no magazine in his machine pistol. I agree with Tsold9000 that the man with the grenade acts like it's new to him. And two left handed shooters! I like the sculpting, but the poses are terrible. I heard a theory that since this may have been the last ESCI set the sculptor intentionally sculpted poor poses as a type of revenge against the company for ending production. I have a few of these in my collection but not many and I have "edited" out certain posed either completely or at least reduced their numbers. The guy leaning on the rifle, you have to cut the rifle off and he becomes a leaning figure. The Pegasus Paratroops are much better.
The Airfix range of military figures is one of the iconic brands of plastic toy soldiers I grew up with. Airfix is a UK manufacturer of plastic scale model kits founded in 1939 by Humbrol and currently owned by Hornby, a famous UK model railway brand. This is the latest reissue of their classic Deutsche Afrika Korps, the German expeditionary force in Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign of World War II. The box contains 14 figures. Click the picture above to go to the Airfix webpage for these figures.
the last two poses are so bad. come on...the barrel into the ground?! and the guy with the grenade is looking at it like he never seen it before! a bad set!
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ReplyDeleteOne figure has his weapons barrel in the dirt, even the most inexperienced soldier would not do such a thing and if he did the other troops and the SGT would be all over him. One pose has no magazine in his machine pistol. I agree with Tsold9000 that the man with the grenade acts like it's new to him. And two left handed shooters! I like the sculpting, but the poses are terrible. I heard a theory that since this may have been the last ESCI set the sculptor intentionally sculpted poor poses as a type of revenge against the company for ending production. I have a few of these in my collection but not many and I have "edited" out certain posed either completely or at least reduced their numbers. The guy leaning on the rifle, you have to cut the rifle off and he becomes a leaning figure. The Pegasus Paratroops are much better.
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