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SOGA: US Para Tank Riders WW2
Maki
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 02:36 PM UTC
And another news repost from SOGA Miniatures... now something for fans of Allied figures. The company will be producing a large set of 1/35 scale figures depicting US Paras riding on a Sherman tank.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 03:08 PM UTC
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New Jersey, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 05:45 PM UTC
Nice! A group of tank riders that cover every bit of space on the tank!
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Steve Willoughby
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 06:32 PM UTC
At around $200, I think I'll pass. They ARE a great group of figures though.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 07:30 PM UTC
Excellent work on an excellent subject !
J
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 07:40 PM UTC
Not a bad deal considering it averages around $12.00 USD per resin figure. This looks like the scene from Band of Brothers while in Holland going down the road before the big German counter attack.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 08:08 PM UTC
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Not a bad deal considering it averages around $12.00 USD per resin figure. This looks like the scene from Band of Brothers while in Holland going down the road before the big German counter attack.
It is a good deal, but my better half would not be too happy if I spent that much on "little green army men" as she calls them.
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Texas, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 08:18 PM UTC
Really nice figure set. I might have to do a WWII scene after all.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 08:21 PM UTC
The hull hatches will have to be closed as when open will be in the way of the riders.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 09:20 PM UTC
Holland, like in the Netherlands? :-)
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 09:33 PM UTC
Beatuful scupting and detail. These guys look like they are being relived from "The Island".
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Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2017 - 01:43 AM UTC
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Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2017 - 02:25 AM UTC
They all are wearing jump uniforms, not the M1943 jackets issued for Market Garden, so you'd need to use these for a Normandy setting.
Tim Streeter
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Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2017 - 03:12 AM UTC
A very nice set indeed,if you can't spend that much,Master Box has a set of 101st Airborne tank riders based on a BoB scene,it's very nice also
Namibia
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Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2017 - 11:16 AM UTC
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Not a bad deal considering it averages around $12.00 USD per resin figure. This looks like the scene from Band of Brothers while in Holland going down the road before the big German counter attack.
That's exactly what crossed my mind. Would make a great dio.
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Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2017 - 03:51 PM UTC
I agree Tim, definitely early para uniform NOT for Netherlands.....this is where Masterbox got their box art/ title wrong for their set of tank riders.
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Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2017 - 07:28 PM UTC
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They all are wearing jump uniforms, not the M1943 jackets issued for Market Garden, so you'd need to use these for a Normandy setting.
True,but not all got the new stuff. I have pics of guys in the Battle of the Bulge still wearing the old jump suits.
J
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Posted: Friday, February 10, 2017 - 07:46 PM UTC
England - East Midlands, United Kingdom
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Posted: Friday, February 10, 2017 - 11:05 PM UTC
Dmitri, just take my money ! Love this set :-)
How about doing some fallschirmjager like this, or even at rest like the previous US Para's ?
Great work my friend, more please :-)
Andy
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bill_c
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Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2017 - 08:41 PM UTC
Dmitri was kind enough to show me these in development, and asked me for help on the medic. I hope I was helpful, because SOGA do some of the most-interesting figures out there (along with Stalingrad). Dios in a box almost every set is says Yoda.
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Posted: Monday, February 13, 2017 - 11:42 PM UTC
Dear Andy Evans
We will have continued and US Paras and fallschirmjager. I recently bought a beautiful book about the history of Karl Veltze uniforms fallschirmjager. We will do in the future, a good and accurate for uniorme series fallschirmjager figures.
Dear Bill. Thanks for your help, we decided to put the medic on a jeep in the future set. The tank was full.
England - East Midlands, United Kingdom
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Posted: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 - 12:58 PM UTC
Dmitri, that is great news, I look forward to your future sets.
I too have the excellent Karl Veltze books, great fallschirmjager reference.
Andy
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Posted: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 - 02:50 PM UTC
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They all are wearing jump uniforms, not the M1943 jackets issued for Market Garden, so you'd need to use these for a Normandy setting.
True,but not all got the new stuff. I have pics of guys in the Battle of the Bulge still wearing the old jump suits.
J
The paratroopers got the new uniforms as a supplementary issue for Market Garden. However the new uniforms were to replace worn out jump uniforms NOT to totally replace Them until the older jump uniforms wore out. So troops were wearing pieces of the jump uniforms to nearly the end of the war.
Previous issues of uniform and gear do not magically disappear because you get something new. The old stuff will be used until it is no longer serviceable. And lots of times the REMFs (today's FOBBITs) took all the new issue for themselves leaving the front line troops with the older issue. A good book about wartime service culture is Paul Fussel's Wartime. This is also shown in the TV series Band of Brothers and is mentioned in the books about the units.
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Steve Willoughby
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Posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 - 07:33 PM UTC
Any further news on these figures ?
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Posted: Monday, September 18, 2017 - 07:12 PM UTC
Id love to find them . where are they sold ?
