M42 40 mm Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun "Duster"
A 4D model of the armored light air-defense gun with HO army men. It's a bit offscale, having to share an underchassis with the other tanks in this line. But with army men, the scale really doesn't matter, does it?
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 U.S. Army fielded a unit of this artillery at the Battle of Khe Sanh, 1968!
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