It’s a WWII crew in the summer but it is a start!!
http://www.mbltd.info/3577.htm
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A big day for you Mr.Leg…and a grand thing for U.S. modelers. As I’ve said before Masterbox is the best maker of styrene 1/35 scale figures. They take alot of clean-up, but once done they tend to have character & good proportion & mostly well formed equipment too.
There’s also a 4 man winter crew with the Dragon 105mm Howitzer.
Some o fthose guys would look great posed next to your 155, Mike!
Do you paint figures? [:D]
Hummm…Gino & Joe and the rest of the crew…but they are in summer weight, the M40 is Feb 52 in snow!!
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The crew is the DML-6163 set of 101st Airborne in Bastogne, with a couple different arms thrown in so they can stand around holding shells.
I’ll try to post some pics in the next couple of days.
I have the DML 105 kit and I agree…they are figs, not exactly in artillery positions. The new set coming from MB gives you a crew for a 155 LT or 8 inch, though the could also be used with other towed or SP systems.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought that the DML 105mm howitzer crew (nee DML 6163 101st AB Bastogne figure set) is slightly inaccurate due to the webbing and ammo – typical for an infantryman but not for the avg WW2 redleg.
Roy - Typically artillerymen would stack their personal weapons near the howitzer. The web belt and suspenders with all its pouches, packs and straps could get in the way and further could be a hazard around a howitzer therefore they would normally be taken off and left in the same area as the personal weapons.
A typical artilleryman from WWII to the advent of the ACU did not wear the load bearing equipment while working on the howitzer.
With the new intergral protective vest which holds the pouches, the equipment is high and tight to the body and no straps to get caught so you will see artillerymen with their load bearing vest while working on today’s howitzer.
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Thnx for confirming that Mike. This is the same reason why modellers ought not to use figures in tanks that have webbing – too much to catch themselves on inside an AFV.
They look pretty good. Now we can man some of those guns. Keep them coming MB.
Actually, with a little painting magic and some minor foot-surgery here & there, those guys will work for WW2 through the 70’s… With some judicious applications of epoxy putty and/or tissue paper, one [i]could turn them into jungle/BDU-wearers… Add K-pots and we’re good through the 90’s into late 2003…
I like 'em…