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I've always wondered who designed this now-classic set of Desert Storm-era American soldiers and the reasoning behind a couple of their weapons. The officer with radio having a Mac-10 or -11 with extended barrel/suppressor is odd enough but the dude with what's unmistakably a WW2-era German Schmeisser is just strange. Granted, there's a photo from the ongoing war in Ukraine of some guy armed with that very weapon but in that context it's at least believable; can't fathom a regular GI deploying to the desert having a preference for such a gun over standard issue, much less being given the option.

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>>11677010
On a related note, when other companies take existing figures and modify them for their own purposes you get some peculiar results. At some point it was decided to turn the guy with raised pistol and M16 rifle into a grenadier, opting to replace the latter weapon with a grenade. Unfortunately they didn't put a whole lot of effort into the conversion, resulting in a soldier with essentially no forearm, his grenade-clutching hand being welded to his elbow.

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>>11677016
This guy came to mind after finding pic related at work the other day with said pose clearly identifiable among the various other equally iconic soldiers. Will post a few more from the book later.

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>>11677020
It's a charming story, about two brothers on a snowy saturday morning where one wakes up to find the other has taken over the living room with a massive army men setup.

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>>11678631
Things start to go awry when army men bro vigorously rejects attempts from other bro to join in his game.

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>>11678632
The Archduke in Sarajevo moment happens when other bro accidentally causes a battalion of troops guarding the piano to domino effect hard, which army men bro assumes was a deliberate act.

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>>11678634
Just wanted to highlight this page and how the artist faithfully recreated the withered grenade arm.

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>>11678635
Things escalate quickly with attack, counter-attack and retaliation between the brothers. Many recognizable classic poses aside, this image is the only one to show a crawling pose, partially anyway.

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>>11678641
The climax is when other bro captures army men bro's soldiers and dumps them into the family snowblower, to await a fate worse than death. Army men bro retaliates by destroying other bro's prized book on Egypt and this is when both are finally overcome by the consequences of their actions and make amends, with other bro vowing to buy army men bro some new soldiers.

where is the garden guy

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What garden guy

I used to chew on those

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It's a slow time of year but ViiKONDO's got a couple new sets out so here's one of them (other is on the way). Really digging the art style, hearkens back to army men sets of old. Also like that every soldier has been given a name, in the listing they even have little blurbs for each which gives me the impression there's perhaps some tie-in media for these.

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>>11694398
The qr code wanted me to install wechat so I guess that rabbit hole will remain unexplored for the time being.

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>>11694399
I got these primarily for the vehicles; always on the lookout for more variety and specialized stuff and this doesn't disappoint with an SPG and AT missile spammer, giving the Tans some badly-needed support units for their tank rushes. It is interesting that the soldiers don't get any vehicles themselves, if you go by Colour Wars rules anyway.

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>>11694415
The AT spammer has a nice turret with both traverse and elevation; unfortunately the SPG's cannon is fixed in place though it can traverse, so a little imagination is required for long-range bombardment. The barbed wire pieces are a little unusual in that they're provided with pegs and holes to be attached together at right angles.

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>>11694418
The soldiers themselves aren't a new set - back when TRU was still cool and had army men there was a line of sets called Soldier Force that consisted of these poses, mostly in green but the largest set also had grey. That set also had one of the tanks included in this new set (the one at the back; the front one has the same hull but a different turret). Soldier Force pose count was fixed at identical numbers of every pose; this new set has followed Timmee's system by having a fixed asymmetrical pose count - the officer and heavy weapons units all having half the number of the regular riflemen.

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>>11694422
They're at a slightly smaller scale than average 1/35 soldiers, compared here with their Soldier Force ancestors. The plastic used is different and some of the newer poses required a little sprue-mark trimming from their bases to keep them from toppling over but overall they're a good reproduction of the earlier soldiers.

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>>11694426
The other set on the way is air and naval-focused but includes the same soldiers.