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Anonymous Sat 25 Oct 2025 23:24:07 No.11606356 View View Reply Original Report

Welcome to the Army Men General!

Previously: >>11578867

>Plastic soldiers, knights and pirates, cowboys and indians, fantasy and sci-fi, cops and zombies, all are welcome here! (civilians are fine too)

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Anonymous Sat 01 Nov 2025 05:30:46 No.11612171 Report

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These started randomly appearing in my AliExpress suggestions, price was decent so I figured why not. Already had a few randoms from this set through a thrift store buy and have been branching out more into the less conventional army men stuff.

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Anonymous Sat 01 Nov 2025 05:40:14 No.11612175 Report

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>>11612171
I've never played any of the Fallout games; I quite enjoyed Internet Historian's Fallout 4 Expleened and The Fall of 76 so I have some context for these but they could also fit into just about any sci-fi setting.

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Anonymous Sat 01 Nov 2025 05:45:48 No.11612179 Report

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>>11612175
If there's one little hangup, it's scale. They're pretty nicely scaled with each other, but on the smaller side compared to standard army men sizes; really noticeable with the vault dwellers. Well, sci-fi folk have children too and when the chips are down everyone's gotta pick up a ray gun to fend off the vile alien menace.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 00:57:08 No.11612858 Report

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 22:43:55 No.11613734 Report

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 22:46:10 No.11613738 Report

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>>11611082
Is there a way to buy the tanks without the cheapo soldiers?

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 22:59:36 No.11613750 Report

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>>11613738
At least one AliExpress store sells a bunch of the various vehicles individually; caveat is they're pretty expensive going that route. Not sure if it's the same store I went with to get these, but I almost guarantee if you order expecting the blue one in the listing you'll get pic related.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009475050458.html

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 23:24:10 No.11613774 Report

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>>11613750
Will add that VIIKONDO also has vehicle packs, good prices but you'll have to pay as much again in shipping on top.

https://viikondotoy.aliexpress.com/store/911419546/pages/all-items.html?productGroupId=40000008195107

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Anonymous Thu 06 Nov 2025 04:21:15 No.11616621 Report

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 20:46:23 No.11619199 Report

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Another day, another order from China.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 20:49:01 No.11619201 Report

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>>11619199
The battle map included is paper again, bit of a downside as it was crammed into a shipping box just barely large enough for the set and has some frayed edges as a result. Still, it has a lovely if somewhat unnaturally straight fast-moving river dividing the battlescape down the middle

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 20:51:43 No.11619205 Report

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>>11619201
And on the verso is this cool city/military base scene, with a few confusing elements like the same Chinese character replicated across many parts of the map; a roundabout with a helipad in the centre; a roadway that is equally suitable as an airstrip.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 20:58:12 No.11619211 Report

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>>11619205
According to Google the Chinese character is "ting" which means "to halt", "to stop", "to park". The inference seems to be that this is indeed a military base, specifically the vehicle park/tank laager/airfield ramp. All the vehicles of the set are those one finds in artillery units so the first option is most fitting. This set is pretty much filler for my established armies, increasing my inventory of "JUSTICE" rocket artillery and oft-overlooked-but-indispensable fuel trucks.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 21:00:50 No.11619212 Report

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>>11619211
These two vehicles often show up as much smaller versions, to the point of no longer having functional wheels. It is nice to have some that fit reasonably well with army men. The right-side trucks seem heavily based on the Patriot missile system but suggest a configuration for ground attack.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 21:19:41 No.11619225 Report

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>>11619212
Cracks me up to see unmistakable NATO emblems on equally unmistakable far eastern military equipment. The rocket truck and its rocket is a much-modified version of the Chinese HQ-2 air defense system, derived from the old Soviet-era SA-2 Guideline. The two amphibs with twin rockets were the selling point of the set for me; the means to mechanize infantry for army men are few and far between, much less giving them amphibious options and these fill both roles nicely.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 21:28:14 No.11619233 Report

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>>11619225
The famous three-piece ruins makes an appearance, with some nice changes in having a few splotches of camouflage and conversion of the "U" window in one piece into more of a flat-bottomed U.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 21:30:19 No.11619234 Report

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>>11619233
Was not expecting the amount of vegetation I got with this set, a pleasant surprise. Feel like this set alone has probably doubled my supply of palm trees, usually you get one or two token pieces and the rest are more temperate trees; this set flips the plot and offers a single such tree amid the palms.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 21:31:31 No.11619237 Report

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>>11619234
The ubiquitous small cheap soldier set tails off the set, more meat for the grinder.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 21:35:17 No.11619240 Report

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>>11619237
Not to say they're bad soldiers by any means, have certainly encountered worse in both plastic quality and pose selection. I find them useful for padding out large-scale operations, saving the better more detailed soldiers for close-ups and character moments.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 22:39:27 No.11619302 Report

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The first snows have fallen; though unlikely to last long as temperatures trend upwards a while longer this is the effective end of the warring season, all operations are suspended and the armies go into winter quarters. Outdoors anyway.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 22:43:57 No.11619307 Report

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This scene was fun, not worrying about moving everything a bit between shots, having a storyline progress... just a fierce frontier engagement captured from multiple directions and angles, offering a sampling of perspectives from those caught up in the chaos of battle.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 22:50:28 No.11619312 Report

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>>11619307
The Green right flank seems well in hand with their bold armoured counter-attack; the left flank however is a different story. Casualties are strewn across the line, mortar tubes glow red from incessant firing as breathless runners lug fresh crates of shells from the magazine to keep up the barrage. The reserves are scraped from the bottom of the barrel, rushing through the forward bivouacs to plug ever increasing holes in the defense line.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 22:54:10 No.11619320 Report

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>>11619312
Tan losses have been appalling, the bodies of the vanguard littering the gentle slopes rising up to the Green positions as the next wave struggles to close the distance with their hated foes, bullets whizzing over their heads, past their heads, through their heads.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 22:58:45 No.11619327 Report

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>>11619320
Both sides sense the decisive moment is at hand; will the Green armoured counterpunch crash through the Tans in time to break their assault, or will it be the Tans that succeed in smashing through the faltering Green defenses and rolling up the line...

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 03:48:58 No.11621314 Report

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>>11606356
Someone needs to make Auschwitz concentration camp army men. Like a whole camp of little injection molded jews and guards. I feel like there is a void in the current army men offerings that should be filled get Larry David to go around on the morning talk shows telling everyone its to raise holocaust awareness or some BS like that.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 19:03:43 No.11621785 Report

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>>11621314
How about scrawny POWs held at gunpoint by BMC Japanese soldiers for the Ulaan Batan Death March?

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Anonymous Tue 11 Nov 2025 19:13:44 No.11621793 Report

Quoted By: >>11622272

Degrading molds, scaling down and inferior plastic can make for some interesting results.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 06:18:49 No.11622217 Report

Quoted By: >>11622218 >>11622233

>>11621314
It's really unfortunate that only AIP has Middle Eastern terrorist plastic soldiers.

A bag of about 30 jihadists along with a handful of prisoners/hostages would be great.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 06:21:44 No.11622218 Report

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>>11622217
Angolan Civil war PMCs would be fun, too.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 06:48:23 No.11622233 Report

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>>11622217
VIIKONDO has these guys

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:10:40 No.11622248 Report

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On a semi-related note (related as in I'd previously seen some of these soldiers from VIIKONDO with the same separate stands as the jihadists), got this beautiful thing the other day. While I appreciate the simplicity of having everything in one bag, I find it hard to visualize these on pegs in a store as packaged.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:12:48 No.11622252 Report

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>>11622248
I really miss seeing sets like these in stores, was my childhood and the last time I can remember something like it in person was at the liquidation centre probably a decade ago now.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:17:06 No.11622253 Report

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>>11622252
Off the bat there's more nostalgia bait with the included vehicles. Not many for such a soldier-heavy set but I don't mind, just happy to see some old friends again. The classic Centurion tank was my very first army men tank, there were a couple of them in a set of blue Germans and red British way back when, along with some variants of those jeeps in the same size. These Centurions are a bit smaller but have the same three-piece design that makes for fun brew-ups in battle. The rocket trucks are recreations of a very similar vehicle also going back a ways, pretty sure I have one or two kicking around.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:19:29 No.11622257 Report

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>>11622253
The rest of the vehicles also hit the nostalgia notes for the type of content, if not the specific vehicles themselves. Back in the day the helis and jets would've been more contemporary designs, though the bright colours of the latter still tracks.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:20:16 No.11622259 Report

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:22:03 No.11622262 Report

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>>11622257
Found it interesting that the two pillboxes are in black, might have to look into whether I can find some more in that colour for my growing black army. The other notable piece here for me is the horseshoe-shaped bunker, feels like they took the classic half-moon bunker and bent it inwards some.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:24:52 No.11622265 Report

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>>11622262
The flag selection can sometimes be baffling; the Chinese banner is certainly appropriate as will be seen in a minute but I can't fathom why Chile and Yemen are represented.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:26:14 No.11622267 Report

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>>11622265
Vegetation and fencing are always much appreciated, particularly when it's other than barbed wire and in good quantity like here.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:28:36 No.11622271 Report

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>>11622267
Ultimately the reason I got the set was for the armies, four different flavours of what the listing indicated are Eighth Route Army soldiers. Unlike the ones I got before from VIIKONDO, these are more traditional with attached stands.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:30:20 No.11622272 Report

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:35:09 No.11622274 Report

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>>11622271
Green, blue, olive-tan and a kind of faded orange, these guys are meant to represent the famous Communist army that fought the Japanese (and their Nationalist rivals), complete with their distinctive swords. Unfortunately for historical accuracy it seems whoever designed the set got lazy and opted to basically copy a couple Timmee Vietnam War poses and alter the uniforms to fit in with the rest, a not uncommon technique but less than ideal when the soldiers remain equipped with anachronistic M16 rifles.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:36:45 No.11622275 Report

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>>11622272
I remember that spine-shivering monument and the equally jarring story of its accidental discovery heh.
>>11622274
The oddest thing about this set is they also included a single oversized soldier, for reasons unknown.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:38:38 No.11622276 Report

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>>11622275
From the same store I also got a set of the soldiers in grey, which came with one of those funny little battle maps on the side.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:40:55 No.11622277 Report

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>>11622276
I've gotten this one before, always good for a chuckle at the peculiarities throughout.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:42:41 No.11622278 Report

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>>11622277
This time the flags are spot on for the troops, with a lone and obvious exception; another random giant that is starting to feel like the company's signature or something.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Nov 2025 07:46:57 No.11622282 Report

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>>11622274
Forgot to mention the four colours were not provided in equal numbers; seems like they were just tossed in haphazardly but thankfully I did get at least one of every pose in every colour.

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