WW2 GI soldier set, any idea which one?

PS1,

   I had the same set but cannot remember who made them. Try doing a search on the MTH website.

JohnB

John, I searched all over the place but yeah, MTH's site nailed it.

MTH 30-11059 RailKing

P51 - Just thought I’d share.  Some of my guys from a Revell kit diorama of a P51.

Was never in the military, so not sure if it is accurate to have one guy working and four guys bsing...  just tried to make it work with what I have.  

Cheers,       W1

Changing the subject a bit, NICE modeling guys!

William 1 posted:

Was never in the military, so not sure if it is accurate to have one guy working and four guys bsing...  just tried to make it work with what I have.  

I was in the military (US Army, got out as a Captain), and that is very accurate, one guy doing all the work. That never changes!

Nice work on the 'stang, I used to volunteer with some warbird groups and got a few formation shots with P-51s and was lucky enough to have a 90-minute flight in one, flying formation with a B-17 (909, the one that sadly crashed in October) and a B-24. Best hour and a half of my life!

P51 - just for the hey of it, here is my P38, Richard Bong’s plane.  All time ace of WWII.  I also have a B17 diorama and a B24 I was planning on hanging from the ceiling.  Oh, and a real nice B25 I use to catch paper from my printer in my office.  That one is a honey.  I always built model planes as a kid.  Kind of a funny story, I had prob 20 planes or so hung from the ceiling back then.  A bomber with a Zero firing on it chased by a P51 etc.  Can’t let the bad guys win right.  One day my little brother has a bday party and I go downstairs afterwards and all my planes are on the floor in pieces, shards of plastic everywhere.  The jerks used a tennis ball to demolish them.  And I go to beat my brother up for it and my mom intervenes and I got into trouble for it.  Not fair!

A captain, wow that’s admirable.  I still read books about WWII.  Reading A Time for Trumpets now.  Quite a tome about the Battle of the Bulge.  It’s a tad tedious, but I’ll keep plugging away at it.

Cheers captain,       W1

There are a number of older Bandai kits of 1:48 military figures available on eBay. A few here, but search more and sift through the anime figures to find WW2 figures...

https://www.ebay.com/sch/2586/...s&LH_TitleDesc=0

verlinden makes many WW figure in non-combat poses...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Verli...rstClass!07416!US!-1

Tamiya too...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Tamiy...8:g:-4UAAOSwKytdhTYy

Tom

Always nice to see my "children"! 

1/48 scale figures simply don't cut it. I made that GI standing set before my layout existed and those figures look like kids in uniform compared to almost any other O scale figures.

p51 posted:

1/48 scale figures simply don't cut it. I made that GI standing set before my layout existed and those figures look like kids in uniform compared to almost any other O scale figures.

So the larger figures are 1/43 scale?

When I was in 3 rail, I became frustrated with the propensity for the figures/vehicles to be 1/43 scale and not 1/48. The 1/43 sizes were even more pronounced to my eyes amid my traditional sized trains.

Andre

I love soldiers on layouts! Especially 1:43-1:50 scale soldiers on an O or 1:64 troops on an S gauge.

Soldiers, SWAT, police, government, borders, etc... are one of my favorite parts of my layout. In terms of modern O scale, there's the MTH set which has 6 soldiers, the K-line set of 9 and the nearly identical O-line Repro set of 9. Same goes for non-action posed SWAT figures(regarding K-line and OLR).

I have a package of these, in winter clothes, and a single American sitting at home waiting for me...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/CORGI...9:g:RWkAAOSw7Zdd5TD8

Corgi :Forward March: 1:50 scale. Spun Die-Cast soldiers. They made 6 sets of these in 1:50 scale. American, German, and British. Discontinued in 2006, I believe, but Russian and Canadian sets were in the works. They also had the 1:50 scale 'Skirmish' series which had 3 soldiers and a vehicle.

Finally, Corgi made a couple 6 WW2 "Forward March" dioramas, which I discovered and got my hands on one right before Christmas. They came with 3 soldiers, a vehicle, and the diorama depicting a battle from WW2. The dioramas could be posed together. Picture of the one that I have is below.

Box is to the right

Unboxed Diorama, 3 American Soldiers and a Sherman. Not yet on my layout. The 1:50 scale soldiers don't look out of place by the K-line or OLR and look fine posed by other modern o-scale figures. The MTH soldiers are a bit smaller so they also call for strategic placement.

On the left side of the tracks 2 Germans patrol the border with their  AA gun equipped half-track(those are fromthe 'Skirmish' set. On the right side are metal American soldiers on patrol. They're what I'd call a tall S-scale(a bit over an inch) strategically placed away from the rest of the army due to the size difference. That said, soldiers of that size are so difficult to come buy I had to pick them up plus they weren't too expensive.

Finally, Corgi also made 6 packs of true S-Scale soldiers. They came in a blue blister pack. They're neat but almost too short to pose near plasticville figures.

Solido made some o-scale military vehicles that included 2 soldiers in non-action poses but I never pulled the trigger on buying any. When it comes to something other than 1:43rd scale and Solido, it's hit or miss for me.

I never bought a Tamiya set of soldiers but did buy a 1:48 scale battleground accessory set(didn't realize it was a model kit) with some brick walls, sand bags, etc... This weekend, I got frustrated with a stuck screw so I decided to try my hand at painting some dollies, boxes/freight, parts of a Lionel watch tower, touching up a few plasticville figures, and then painting one from scratch- I didn't do too bad! Gave me enough confidence that the next time I head to my LHS I'm picking up a Tamiya kit of soldiers.