>>11573111You get a haphazard assortment of 8 different poses - the first bag I opened had one color missing a pose but between the two bags every army has at least a couple representatives of each. The poses are largely drawn from classic army men sets; the grenadier, binoculars guy and charging soldier are Matchbox WW2 Americans while all but one of the rest derive from the famous Desert Storm set of the 90s. The lone exception is the guy at back looking to his left and wielding his comically oversized weapon single-handedly while his other hand is in an odd pose; perhaps holding a spare magazine, or holding on to his combat webbing, or for some other obscure reason... he seems the archetypal casual warfighter, a weekend warrior of the highest caliber.
A significant downside to these troops is their modest size when compared to average army men (blue trooper for scale). However if you're like me and have already collected a number of recent cheap Chinese sets this particular midget scale is fairly widespread these days. There are some older sets that compare well size-wise too (certain versions of the classic Airfix American Paratroopers and the Rambo-style soldiers notably). The packages promised 90 soldiers each; as it turned out there was a spare apiece for a total of 182 men, enough to form four companies and a platoon based on the colour distribution. Ironically the green unit (my largest army by far) ended up being the platoon out of the lot.
Can't say I'd recommend these at anything other than rock bottom prices but they're an interesting novelty in their own right. Got some new sets on the way (including a Timmee sci-fi bucket) so there should be more reviews by the next thread.
