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/amg/ Army Men General - Swift, silent, deadly

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 06:06:21 No.11343381 View View Reply Original Report

Welcome to the Army Men General!

Previously: >>11311947

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

>Archived threads:
https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/Army%20Men%20General/

>Army men wargame rules:
https://combatstorm.com/
https://onepagerules.com/portfolio/one-off-games/
https://www.plasticcommand.com/
https://freewargamesrules.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=army+men

>Places to get army men:
https://bmctoys.com/ and https://victorybuy.com/
https://www.armiesinplastic.com/
https://www.toysoldierco.com/
https://www.classictoysoldiers.com/
https://www.toysoldiersdepot.com/
https://www.hobbybunker.com/
https://www.michtoy.com/
https://www.toysoldierhq.com/
https://micshaunscloset.com/
http://www.expeditionaryforce.com.sg/

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Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 07:36:46 No.11343421 Report

Quoted By: >>11343454 >>11344118

>>11331401
Sweet, a Luigi Cadorna episode.
>>11331434
This is a cool firing line picture.
>>11334757
>>11334760
>>11334761
Wow, your library must be pretty well funded. Scaling with army tends to be a little a wonky anyway so I think it looks great.

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Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 08:47:53 No.11343454 Report

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>>11343421
Is only fitting the greatest killer of Italians is an Italian. My library is in a major city and has pretensions of being on the cutting edge of all kinds of tech-related things, don't know how I feel about some of it but hey, paid to learn 3D printing eh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 23:24:54 No.11344118 Report

Quoted By: >>11344336

>>11343421

Mine makes you take a small course in 3d printing but at least they are expanding tool rental.

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Anonymous Fri 21 Feb 2025 05:23:50 No.11344336 Report

Quoted By: >>11345185

>>11344118
Among various endeavours mine is also bringing back a vinyl records collection as a pilot; coincidentally we'll be centralizing our music CD collection to be only available through holds placement, due to low circulation. I'd rather see collection development funds put to better use but eh, above my pay grade.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2025 03:22:04 No.11345185 Report

Quoted By: >>11345208

>>11344336
I guess they are pulling their wagons into a circle.
It makes sense with a lowered demand. but it's not perfect.
Libraries are hard hit a lot with cuts and a lot of folks use them as daycare -Which with the funds reduction sucks.
I look at this from both the "irritated patron having to put up with kids running around or using the research computers for games" aspect as well as "dude who had run far too many summer reading programs and see the drop of funding." perspectives.

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Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2025 03:50:53 No.11345208 Report

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>>11345185
I'm all for the music CDs move, not so much throwing away money on a fad for a relative handful of people. But this is the mentality of certain types in charge here these days... been making progress on my edits to that modern-style tank, with luck I can maybe find a window to print it next week.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2025 07:59:14 No.11346142 Report

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Ordered another of these castles, can't remember if it's my fourth or fifth by now. Either way when warm weather returns it'll be fun medieval times again, without a contrived nuclear missile involved this go-around (probably).

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2025 06:25:50 No.11348061 Report

Quoted By: >>11348076 >>11348090

Shared the contents of this army men bucket some threads ago but while I was forming its troops into active units of my plastic armed forces I couldn't help but admire the awesome artwork on the cardboard insert.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2025 06:49:14 No.11348076 Report

Quoted By: >>11359730

>>11348061
Hit the post button accidentally before I could expand on the details:
>Cold Warrior Stridsvagn 103 (aka the S-tank) leading the charge
>Leopard 2 right behind with a third unknown tank
>Su-33 and Focke-Wulf 190(!) strafing the armoured assault
>Su-33 apparently firing cannon rounds from its wing pylons
>BATTLEFIELD TERMINATOR
Kids generally aren't going to notice or care whether their toy soldiers and tanks are from the same country or even the same era so the artwork is quite fitting. Either the toy companies just slap whatever random military things together and call it a day, or they really know their target demographics, or a little of column A, little of column B.

I would argue for the last; have noticed quite a lot of their exciting battle scenes are copied directly from real artwork, the kind you'll find advertised in specialty magazines. This gorgeous battle mat from a different bucket mostly depicting WW2's Eastern Front circa 1943 only gets even better for having some stray US heavy bombers, British Typhoons and even a pair of Blackhawk helicopters passing by overhead.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2025 07:16:47 No.11348090 Report

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>>11348061
>WWII planes versus modern jets
>jets about to kamikaze into a bunch of tanks while also firing missiles at it
>that guy in the vehicle that's upright and shooting at something

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2025 15:19:10 No.11348308 Report

Quoted By: >>11350625

tango tango alpha bravo, scout team reporting in. no tans spotted in this backyard.

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Anonymous Thu 27 Feb 2025 06:18:32 No.11350625 Report

Quoted By: >>11351934 >>11352148

>>11348308
Stay frosty, the feckers are doubtlessly plotting mischief somewhere.

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Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 03:15:41 No.11351934 Report

Quoted By: >>11351939 >>11352024 >>11352148

>>11350625
Everyone is stayin frosty in Korea.

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Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 03:17:05 No.11351939 Report

Quoted By: >>11352024 >>11352148

>>11351934

Real frosty.

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Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 04:29:45 No.11352024 Report

Quoted By: >>11352037 >>11352148

>>11351934
>>11351939
Best Korea or Worst Korea?

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Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 04:42:54 No.11352037 Report

Quoted By: >>11352148 >>11352591

>>11352024

No man's land.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 07:32:52 No.11352148 Report

Quoted By: >>11352164 >>11352591

>>11350625
Where'd you get those stealth bombers?
>>11351934
>>11351939
>>11352024
>>11352037
The sculpts on these guys are insane.

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Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 07:52:29 No.11352164 Report

Quoted By: >>11353696

>>11352148
There's a store on AliExpress called VIIKONDO that sells pic related, with the caveat of high shipping cost relative to that of the sets themselves.

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Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 16:57:55 No.11352591 Report

Quoted By: >>11352592 >>11353696

>>11352037
>>11352148

Before the winter these guys were on sale and I made the mistake of not buying more. They had the Americans in Korea as well as the mixed set.
I should have looked to see if there were winter Germans as well.
With the set (pictured) you get a ton of Canadians (butt hey are not dressed for cold weather) and a German machine gun next with only 3-4 Germans.

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Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 16:59:49 No.11352592 Report

Quoted By: >>11353696

>>11352591
- and the North Koreans are sculpted pretty ugly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 17:00:19 No.11352593 Report

Quoted By: >>11352629 >>11353696

>>11343381
These threads are fun

Such cheap toys yet so much fun

Surprised no one made more prestige army men toys

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Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 17:38:30 No.11352629 Report

Quoted By: >>11353696

>>11352593
They are already pricey enough thanks.
If I had the cash I would find anyone re-selling the basketball playing sleestack.

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Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 18:08:33 No.11352672 Report

Quoted By: >>11353580

My third attempt to up-armour the Blue faction was a success I'd say. Aside from moving the snap peg to the middle of the chassis and changing the road wheels I kept the original design, which does leave some shot trap areas under the turret but that's fine. Took 7 1/2 hours to print; the first time failed around the 6 hour mark cuz of an issue with the printer itself, had to restart but things went smoothly the second time.

I might do some more work on the turret, maybe make an elongated version more like modern tanks, maybe add a couple more details. That'll probably be the final product - single chassis design and a variety of turrets. Might even create a chassis variant with the snap peg moved to the back again, for self-propelled artillery or other options. We're just about set to move our 3D printer where it'll be available for public use so there may not be more tanks for some time; the Blues now have a reasonable armour complement at least.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 01 Mar 2025 04:51:32 No.11353580 Report

Quoted By: >>11353586

>>11352672
Neat.
My pref is the middle more rounded turret for the more classic look.

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Anonymous Sat 01 Mar 2025 05:01:12 No.11353586 Report

Quoted By: >>11353593

>>11353580
It's a nice model but it's too specifically a Tiger I, down to the overlapping road wheels. It's been fun coming up with (mostly) my own design, has grown a new appreciation of 3D printing applications to army men after my initial attempts last year were a disaster.

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Anonymous Sat 01 Mar 2025 05:08:24 No.11353593 Report

Quoted By: >>11353597

>>11353586
That first attempt was too ambitious, in hindsight. Was looking for gaps in my plastic armed forces and decided my long-range SAM units were lacking. So I found an S-300 model and did a small-scale test run to try it out. It was too detailed really for that test size and the end result wasn't the best but I figured a larger run would be spot-on.

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Anonymous Sat 01 Mar 2025 05:11:16 No.11353597 Report

Quoted By: >>11353601

>>11353593
Unfortunately the printer messed up after hours and this is all I got. Guess I just gave up on it and moved on to other stuff, felt sufficiently trained up at the time and there was no pressing need for it. Kinda want to try printing the S-300 again.

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Anonymous Sat 01 Mar 2025 05:14:21 No.11353601 Report

Quoted By: >>11353660

>>11353597
Of course I ended up finding a really nice S-300 on AliExpress to fill that void...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 01 Mar 2025 06:58:09 No.11353660 Report

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>>11353601
nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 01 Mar 2025 07:43:02 No.11353696 Report

Quoted By: >>11354809

>>11352164
Oh, I see them on Amazon all the time. Cute cat btw.
>>11352591
Kinda weird how you always get less Germans.
>>11352592
Wow. At least the clothes are sculpted well.
>>11352593
>Surprised no one made more prestige army men toys
They definitely exist depending on what you want. Scale, Material (metal or plastic), paint, removable accessories, and ETC. One really expensive brand that I've been eying is LOD because they make guys based off the Trojan War.
>>11352629
I feel like I've seen these guys before. Are they from Land of the Lost?

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Anonymous Sat 01 Mar 2025 20:02:56 No.11354809 Report

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>>11353696
They are indeed from land of the lost.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 06:25:01 No.11356024 Report

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After a long pause I ordered one of the VIIKONDO sets I haven't checked out yet, should be some interesting new troops to check out, among other things.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Mar 2025 07:26:01 No.11357776 Report

Quoted By: >>11357800 >>11359050 >>11359592

Why isn't there a red team?

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Anonymous Mon 03 Mar 2025 08:03:39 No.11357800 Report

Quoted By: >>11360204

>>11357776
They're busy with bigger problems.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Mar 2025 07:59:03 No.11359050 Report

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>>11357776
Too busy fighting the blues

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Anonymous Tue 04 Mar 2025 20:48:02 No.11359592 Report

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>>11357776
The only good red is a dead red.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Mar 2025 22:54:32 No.11359730 Report

Quoted By: >>11359958 >>11360206

>>11348076
Those are Hawker Typhoons. The fuck is a traction engine doing in there?

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Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2025 02:07:38 No.11359958 Report

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>>11359730
Its best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2025 17:31:45 No.11360204 Report

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>>11357800
The minigun, with a whine began to spin up.
Soon depleted uranium slugs were sparkling as they bounced of the creatures seemingly bulletproof hide.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2025 17:37:28 No.11360206 Report

Quoted By: >>11361382

>>11359730
"Gotta get the harvest in" Josef thought as he and his brother Hans forked sheaves of wheat into the maw of the threshing machine...
" Gotta.." his thoughts were interrupted by the clash of armor in the fields next to him where gigantic tanks tore up the land, their treads ripping the earth as the machines tried to flee from the air assault. A group of.. Italians? Spanish? crouched behind the sheep barn carrying crates of rounds for a field gun they didn't have.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2025 18:10:44 No.11361382 Report

Quoted By: >>11362508 >>11365337

>>11360206
The swirling chaos of battle is a thing to behold

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 05:44:07 No.11362109 Report

Quoted By: >>11362510

Another battle map with a lot going on, not the least of which the F-15 with its landing gear down in the middle of everything.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 17:05:18 No.11362458 Report

Quoted By: >>11362606

It's here!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 18:02:02 No.11362508 Report

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>>11361382
It's all fin and games at the Fortress of Darkness - till the Walkers show up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 18:03:09 No.11362510 Report

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>>11362109
Those 3 guys seem strangely unconcerned.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:21:17 No.11362606 Report

Quoted By: >>11362609

>>11362458
Right off the bat we have an unsurprising item, a battle map. What is surprising is that instead of plastic or paper it's made of the same material as reusable shopping bags. It is also one of if not the largest example I've had, with lots of great details and good consistency in the style.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:25:43 No.11362609 Report

Quoted By: >>11362611

>>11362606
Speaking of large we have a trio of good-sized vehicles. The truck is easily the best of the lot, with a removable "canvas" cover, liftgate that can be lowered and is just an overall most impressive vehicle. All three also have pull-back mechanisms.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:27:16 No.11362611 Report

Quoted By: >>11362616 >>11365337

>>11362609
While I've gotten these tanks in previous sets they're no less welcome here too. New and unusual additions are a pair of front-end loaders, but instead of a bucket they're equipped with plows (for mines?).

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:31:53 No.11362616 Report

Quoted By: >>11362618

>>11362611
The artillery piece is a classic as is the dinghy while the trailer is new to me; the motorcycle with sidecar has also appeared in other sets. One minor quibble is despite the awesomeness of the three big vehicles, none have a hitch for pulling either the trailer or artillery.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:34:48 No.11362618 Report

Quoted By: >>11362619 >>11362730

>>11362616
Given that I've bought several sets from this company already there will be a fair amount of repetition as already noted, with the two fighter jets here also being seen before. The two helicopters aren't new to me either, having found them in small sets at Dollarama some years before.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:36:06 No.11362619 Report

Quoted By: >>11362620 >>11365337

>>11362618
The naval vessels have also been seen before, still is nice to get another of Russian-style aircraft carrier.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:37:50 No.11362620 Report

Quoted By: >>11362622

>>11362619
More previously seen stuff, not sure if I got those tents in that exact scheme before. Will say I love these towers, always glad to get more.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:38:32 No.11362622 Report

Quoted By: >>11362623 >>11365337

>>11362620
A few oversized items clearly intended for action figures, not new except for the stretcher.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:39:42 No.11362623 Report

Quoted By: >>11362627 >>11365337

>>11362622
The smaller-scale building ruins and sprues of accessories have appeared before as well, though I will say these are by far the best quality versions to date.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:44:45 No.11362627 Report

Quoted By: >>11362630 >>11365337

>>11362623
More familiar but great accessories; was a little disappointed by the fake flags as the set listing indicated at least one other, more controversial flag should've been included (will come back to that with the troops).

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:46:50 No.11362630 Report

Quoted By: >>11362631 >>11365337 >>11366764

>>11362627
These accessories are a little less common and in an uncommon colour. The barrels are notable for having stickers, including on top and bottom.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:47:44 No.11362631 Report

Quoted By: >>11362633

>>11362630
Barbed wire, a little challenging to stand up on flat surfaces but typical.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:49:32 No.11362633 Report

Quoted By: >>11362637

>>11362631
A considerable amount of plantlife, always appreciated. Will note the bright green palm trees are a challenge to stand up on flat surfaces like the barbed wire due to minor defects with their stands.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:56:06 No.11362637 Report

Quoted By: >>11362642 >>11366768

>>11362633
At last, the men. These were one of the selling points for me as I didn't have anything like them and I'm quite impressed with what arrived. There's two armies of 40 men (red and green), divided into 10 poses with 4 of each. The red army is clearly meant to be the Taliban, or a more generic Middle Eastern unconventional fighting force. Indeed, the set listing indicated that one of the flags was going to be the infamous ISIS black flag.

The range of poses is excellent, from the kneeling RPG guy to the dude with a molotov cocktail in one hand and his gun in the other. The figure with raised hand, while not very apparent in pic, has a head covering, face and beard most reminiscent of a particular individual of that part of the world...

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 20:58:51 No.11362642 Report

Quoted By: >>11362647

>>11362637
Fittingly the opposing force is very much modern US military, again with a great selection of poses. Forgot to talk about the unusual design where the soldiers and their stands are separate pieces - every soldier (save for two American poses) has a hole in the bottom of one foot that fits onto a peg on the stand, which is just one standard design that fits all figures.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 21:01:58 No.11362647 Report

Quoted By: >>11362648

>>11362642
Owing to the size of the set I just had to lay everything all out together to better convey it. The battle map was larger than the upright freezer used as convenient flat surface and thus couldn't be made as flat as I'd have liked, making it challenging to stand up some of the more tricky items. Didn't bother to set up all the soldiers either, just one of every pose.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 21:04:55 No.11362648 Report

Quoted By: >>11362725

>>11362647
Overall it's one of the best sets I've purchased in recent times, certainly better both in quality and content than most of what's kicking around Amazon these days. Does come with the caveat of costly shipping but I felt it was justified given the reasonable cost of the set itself.

The soldiers can be ordered separately and I might do so, both to raise their numbers and to see if I might get that one particular flag.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 22:24:12 No.11362725 Report

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>>11362648
Hadn't noticed it until just now but the cardboard insert for the storage bag is just as awesome as the last one. It's also a funny reversal - the previous one had all modern military with a couple WW2 fighters, while this one is all WW2 with a random AH-64 Apache gunship joining in the fray. The guy doing a random bike stunt just heightens the awesome.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Mar 2025 22:31:43 No.11362730 Report

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>>11362618
Going through my old photos it turns out I was mistaken about the helicopters. While they are very much in the same style and one is the same type (CH-47 Chinook), the Dollarama copters didn't have an SH-60 Seahawk and their version of the Chinook is different.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 06:31:46 No.11365337 Report

Quoted By: >>11365704

>>11361382
Talk about a field of corpses, holy molly. Drawn boxart really has its charm. Also is that a Bunny in the cage?
>>11362611
The tactical tractor has made it into the toy world
>>11362619
Do they float?
>>11362622
These seem pretty neat. They're meant to scale with six inch stuff, I presume?
>>11362623
Kinda weird that the barrel is embedded into the wall.
>>11362627
The flags look pretty cool. I'm American, and I've been told both our national and state flags aren't designed very well, so my standards probably aren't high.
>>11362630
interesting that these locations aren't on the map
sorry for the mass reply

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Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 17:32:58 No.11365704 Report

Quoted By: >>11366327

>>11365337
Yes, Thumper was an unwitting spectator to the carnage.
>Do they float?
They're hollow plastic so they should, however the flat bottoms are not conducive to staying upright.
>meant to scale with six inch stuff
The mortar tubes are six inches or more already, don't know action figure scales very well but I think something like 1/12 would be about right.
>Kinda weird that the barrel is embedded into the wall
Maybe someone cut a barrel in half and stood one piece up against the wall, for reasons unknown, or that's just how they incorporate fuel drums into houses in China
>The flags look pretty cool
Don't get me wrong, I quite enjoy getting all manner of random weird flags from these sets, just was expecting a specific one in this case.
>these locations aren't on the map
This isn't unusual for army men sets, typically not much care is taken to have such consistency.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2025 06:05:31 No.11366327 Report

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>>11365704
Cute rabbit

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2025 06:39:40 No.11366345 Report

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Strange to think that it would be 18 years before another battle of this magnitude would be fought.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2025 06:43:31 No.11366348 Report

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>>11366345
Referring of course to the assault on the Grey Line last year.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2025 06:49:42 No.11366350 Report

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Things will be different this time. A new campaigning season approaches, with an unquenchable thirst for plastic blood.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2025 06:54:26 No.11366353 Report

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I can hardly wait.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2025 17:26:19 No.11366764 Report

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>>11362630
The signs give me M.A.S.H. flashbacks

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Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2025 17:27:36 No.11366768 Report

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>>11362637
The removable baces are interesting.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Mar 2025 06:44:25 No.11367320 Report

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>>11366345
I love these old photos of yours; the way everything is set up, the flash, all the stuff in the background, the carpet. It's very soulful and takes me back.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Mar 2025 06:53:34 No.11367323 Report

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>>11367320
Those were the days... my brother was heavily involved in these, makes me regret we didn't do more before he moved on to other things.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Mar 2025 06:58:01 No.11367327 Report

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There were plans for a series continuing the story of that epic war, even did a trailer together inspired by the "Believe" trailer for Halo 3. Turned out to be our last army men collaboration.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Mar 2025 07:10:25 No.11367332 Report

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Did a setup on my own some time after but a feline trespasser sabotaged it before it got to the end. Maybe someday I'll revisit the idea - the Veterans Brigade making a stand against fearful odds.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Mar 2025 07:11:13 No.11367334 Report

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And it will most definitely require the old car garage to come out of deep storage for one more battle.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Mar 2025 05:45:28 No.11368412 Report

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>>11367327
>>11367332
>>11367334
did you get into military history because of family member? I've noticed a lot books and movies in these backgrounds.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Mar 2025 06:51:11 No.11368458 Report

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>>11368412
Feel like I've always had an interest, possibly fuelled by my first army men sets when I was still single digits. My grandfather was in a tank in WW2 but I don't remember learning that until later, after he passed away. A good chunk of my childhood was spent overseas in Belgium and I got to experience much military history first-hand with trips to Waterloo, Ypres, Bastogne, Vimy Ridge and the excellent Cinquantenaire Military Museum in Brussels.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 04:22:35 No.11369382 Report

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Just discovered BMC has Imperial Japanese tanks and I'm super excited!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/316320849139

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 04:43:14 No.11369397 Report

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That's odd - why didn't the thread bump?

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 05:27:14 No.11369427 Report

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>>11368458
Ah, you were a military kid. Getting to visit battlefields in person sounds cool. I read somewhere that you can still see the remnants of trenchlines in France.
>>11369382
If you're ever board you should browse their catalogue on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=BMC+Toys
They have so many weird accessories that I've never seen anyone mention.
>>11369397
Threads autosage after two weeks on this board.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 05:57:44 No.11369450 Report

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>>11369427
I fucking hate the autosage.
on slower moving threads it's death.
the 1/18 just starts to get interesting then dies and no one starts a new one till a week or two goes by.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 06:22:40 No.11369467 Report

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>>11369427
>They have so many weird accessories that I've never seen anyone mention.
Thanks. Checking it out now. I'm only into plastic army men for WW2 Japanese stuff (although I do want to see if feudal Japanese stuff exists) so I'm hoping they'll have some more.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 06:36:26 No.11369475 Report

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I have no words:
https://www.amazon.com/BMC-Classic-Plastic-Army-Babies/dp/B0CK7S9NYV/

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 07:52:33 No.11369501 Report

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>>11369427
Vimy Ridge has preserved sections of trenches, as well as parts of the tunnel system built up by the Canadians ahead of their assault on the ridge. When we visited they had just uncovered an unexploded Boche shell that had buried deep into the ground and was poking through the roof of a collapsed tunnel that was being restored. Rather chilling in hindsight; they have to mow the grass on certain areas of the ridge by non-standard means (aka having local sheep herds graze it down) due to the sheer volume of explosive that was poured into it and without a doubt still contains a number of unexploded munitions.
>>11369467
Love me some Japanese army men.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 08:14:14 No.11369507 Report

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>>11369501
The pockmarked ground all around the memorial atop Vimy Ridge has been left as it was since the battle.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 08:27:09 No.11369511 Report

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>>11369507
These preserved trenches are at Sanctuary Wood near Ypres, only saw them from a distance as they were closed to visitors at the time. Every year Belgian and French farmers have an iron harvest when they plow their fields, unearthing an endless supply of Great War relics; everything from barbed wire to human remains and, most significantly, grenades, bombs and shells still very much capable of causing injury or death a century on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 16:15:57 No.11369730 Report

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>>11369501
>Battotai begins playing

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 23:17:32 No.11370062 Report

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This spring is my war on the weeds.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 23:18:42 No.11370066 Report

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There's a lot of shit back here so it at least makes for good photo ops

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Anonymous Sun 16 Mar 2025 01:46:57 No.11371038 Report

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>>11343381
Have a Bump OP
I had found about 200 Figs that are all vintage for 9.99 at a thrift store, some are form the 1950s.
Even the post WW2 slanty eye Japan face figures
I will post some pics later

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Anonymous Sun 16 Mar 2025 01:55:11 No.11371050 Report

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>>11371038
Thanks for the effort fren, unfortunately we're well beyond the two week mark and bumps are kill. Will make us a new thread in a little while, can't wait to see your haul!

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Anonymous Sun 16 Mar 2025 05:45:17 No.11371260 Report

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>>11371258

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Anonymous Sun 16 Mar 2025 06:45:48 No.11371306 Report

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>>11369501
>>11369507
That's rather horrifying

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Anonymous Sun 16 Mar 2025 07:34:20 No.11371338 Report

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>>11371306
The Western Front of World War 1 is unique in history for remaining relatively static for nearly four years of the first major Industrial Age war; shoddy materials and manufacturing resulted in as much as a quarter of the shells fired in any given battle being faulty and failing to detonate on impact. While the era of anti-personnel mines has ratcheted things up several notches in terms of making lands hazardous for decades to come, it was the first occasion for the world to experience such far-reaching consequences of industrial scale warfare.

I remember reading a story from the years immediately after the end of the Great War, when the massive undertaking of consolidating the remains of the fallen into official war cemeteries was in full swing. A group of men carrying out this grim task had built a fire to cook a meal - unbeknownst to them it was directly over an unexploded shell lying just beneath the surface. Tragically, they would also end up in one of those cemeteries.

In 1916-17 the Allies carried out a massive mining operation against German positions on Messines Ridge; over the course of a year they dug miles of tunnels under the ridge to create vaults they would then pack with tons of explosives. When they were finally ready to carry out the attack, the lines had shifted and some of the mines were now beneath friendly trenches and could not be set off with the rest. In the chaos of the war and its ending, those unused mines were forgotten. That is until 1955 when a freak lightning strike detonated one of the forgotten mines, creating a massive crater near a farm. The only casualty was a cow; however this led to the rediscovery of other such mines, including one directly under another farm. It is far too dangerous to attempt to disarm the mine, which remains primed and viable after a century and likely will continue to be a sword of Damocles over the hapless farmers for decades more to come.

Pic related, the crater of that 1955 detonation.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2025 19:38:13 No.11372487 Report

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>>11371338
big bada boom

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