>>11222764Note, I tried to peel off the Pakistan flag to fix it but it started to tear so they're all staying as is. Anyway, I'm ridiculously thrilled by one element in particular of these various accessories, all of which are pretty good and serve to make this set worthwhile in my eyes again. The barbed wire is good quality and the two non-palm trees make fine additions to my plastic forestry, but the real gems are those sandbag walls.
Longer than I've been alive, that sandbag wall design has served countless plastic armies across countless battlefields, but in all that time it has struggled with a basic design flaw - the peg and clutch method of connecting the two pieces. Some makers used two pegs, others one peg, but the problem is fundamental to both: QC issues with the plastic quality or the molding process means just assembling the two halves can be a chore, one that often risks the outright snapping of a peg or clutch.
Some more recent makers resolved to sidestep the issue by removing the peg and clutch altogether, merely providing the sandbag walls to be stood up together. Their problem however is they usually just make one half, meaning you can't replicate the original arrowhead with them.
Ok that was a bit of a rant but I'm getting to the point. Whoever designed these went with a slot connection instead of a peg, relying on simple friction rather than a risky clutch. I cannot overstate how happy this makes me... ok I'm done gushing, still some stuff left to look at (and sigh wistfully over).
