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/amg/ Army Men General - Waking sleeping giants

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)

>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 Sat 25 Oct 2025 23:45:28 No.11606385 Report

Quoted By: >>11606387

Last thread I expressed some disappointment at missing a few poses from these new army men sets, at the time it wasn't a big deal but when I went to form them into official units within my plastic armed forces the absent poses irked so I ordered a couple more sets to hopefully redress the issue.

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Anonymous Sat 25 Oct 2025 23:47:00 No.11606387 Report

Quoted By: >>11606394

>>11606385
Alongside another of the small sets I got one of the mid-size range which has four variants as shown on the back; I elected to get the bottom right corner set in the hopes of getting the rest of the rocket truck variants.

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Anonymous Sat 25 Oct 2025 23:48:27 No.11606394 Report

Quoted By: >>11606400

>>11606387
Small set first, was again the variant with the tanks and while the tan tank is the same, the green tank is that odd little Panzer IV that came in white last time.

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Anonymous Sat 25 Oct 2025 23:50:34 No.11606400 Report

Quoted By: >>11606406

>>11606394
Between the two previous sets I'd missed out on six poses altogether: 1 in green, 2 in blue and 3 in tan. This set cut that in half by including 2 of the tan and 1 of the blue, leaving one of each colour still absent.

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Anonymous Sat 25 Oct 2025 23:51:58 No.11606406 Report

Quoted By: >>11606414

>>11606400
Couldn't wait to see how I fared with the other set so I barely took the time to get a pic of the contents, on top of the battle map previously seen with the larger set. I did get one of the two rocket truck variants I was lacking; don't think I'll be chasing the last one like I was the soldiers heh.

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Anonymous Sat 25 Oct 2025 23:55:04 No.11606414 Report

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>>11606406
As luck would have it all three remaining poses were among the troop complement; as George the Dubya once famously said, Mission Accomplished. Reflecting on this little saga it's interesting that blind boxes can come in all shapes and sizes, hadn't really thought of these as such but they really do fall into that category with the variations on content.

I'm expecting another delivery today, we'll see.

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Anonymous Mon 27 Oct 2025 08:29:39 No.11607722 Report

Quoted By: >>11608394

Are there any army men in the “hands-up, I surrender”, pose?

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 01:30:21 No.11608394 Report

Quoted By: >>11608544

>>11607722
There are a few in more specialized sets, haven't got any of those so far but there's a pose in a common set of Japanese soldiers where one guy has his rifle over his head in a standing pose, could make a case for it being a surrender pose, or crossing a deep body of water heh.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 02:20:58 No.11608424 Report

Quoted By: >>11608427

After a long drought I found some actually good army men in a local store, a hobby shop that's half models/trains/RC and the rest is a mix of Lego and other stuff. At 11 maplebucks for a box of 32 soldiers they're cheaper than Timmee's troops (which average 30 for 48 soldiers on amazon canada at this time).

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 02:24:32 No.11608427 Report

Quoted By: >>11608429

>>11608424
Had a feeling I should get at least two boxes and it was a wise precaution - contents are quite random from box to box. They're reproductions of the classic Matchbox US WW2 soldiers, with every pose present (if you're lucky anyway, this box lacked binoculars guy). Pic is leftmost box...

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 02:28:12 No.11608429 Report

Quoted By: >>11608431 >>11608545

>>11608427
...and right-side box, this one rather more balanced but could still be better with its mix. The plastic is good quality, sturdy and feels a lot like the ones I got way back in the 90s. Details are pretty good too, much better reproductions than the average.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 02:31:01 No.11608431 Report

Quoted By: >>11608433

>>11608429
Each box has a little fabric bag with drawstrings that holds all 32 men snugly.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 02:32:27 No.11608433 Report

Quoted By: >>11609452

>>11608431
Would love to see these guys produced in more colours, though it's unlikely.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 06:39:19 No.11608544 Report

Quoted By: >>11608550

>>11608394
And that guy who is beating the crap out of someone on the ground.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 06:41:36 No.11608545 Report

Quoted By: >>11608551

>>11608429
Without actually reading this I was also just going to say these guys looked pretty "clean"

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 07:11:58 No.11608550 Report

Quoted By: >>11608963

>>11608544
Funny thing about the guy with the rifle over his head, there's a more recent set out there that was heavily inspired by those and other previous sets and it largely recreated him, this time with a more assertive facial expression.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 07:14:05 No.11608551 Report

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>>11608545
Yes, I was much impressed by the quality as compared to so many other clones, copies and reproductions I've come across over the years. When I have some time I'll do a side-by-side with my OG soldiers.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 17:13:02 No.11608963 Report

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>>11608550
ya, he's not fording a river OR surrendering.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 03:52:56 No.11609449 Report

Quoted By: >>11609452

Got my US 1st Division out, all Matchbox copies, clones and approximations but no originals (that I can tell anyway).

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 03:56:42 No.11609452 Report

Quoted By: >>11609455

>>11609449
Took a pic of each pose with the second from right in every shot coming from the new set here >>11608433 and right-most being a set off Amazon that was clearly modelled on them but distinct in its own right. The others are some of the variants from the 1st Division ranks.

The standing aiming rifleman was an early favourite for me as a kid; I'd got a small set of them that didn't have every pose but the soldiers were generally a bit larger than all the other troops I had at the time, making them stand out all the more. I remember treating this guy like his weapon was shotgun-like in power.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 03:59:42 No.11609455 Report

Quoted By: >>11609456

>>11609452
The kneeling aiming rifleman pose was not among those of my first set, can't remember when I first got some normal-sized ones but I do recollect my first ever encounter was in a set of Matchbox clones that had been shrunk down in size some; this set also included the officer in long coat aiming a pistol that was dropped from the original Matchbox lineup when other companies started copying/cloning the heck out of 'em.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:00:46 No.11609456 Report

Quoted By: >>11609458

>>11609455
The grease-gunner was also absent from that first set, though also included among the smaller-sized guys.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:03:00 No.11609458 Report

Quoted By: >>11609460 >>11609519

>>11609456
The M2 machinegunner was definitely in that first set though, was always the bane of whoever had the misfortune of facing the US army; there's an upsized version in the back who is not from the 1st Division but rather my Veterans Brigade, aka an army made up of all the soldiers who have no army otherwise.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:04:52 No.11609460 Report

Quoted By: >>11609462

>>11609458
The original Matchbox pose included a short bayonet on the end of this guy's rifle, a detail dropped from all subsequent versions. In more recent times this pose always reminds me of its clever use in a scene from Plastic Apocalypse to show a soldier reloading his rifle.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:10:03 No.11609462 Report

Quoted By: >>11609464

>>11609460
This pose was not included in the original 1/35 Matchbox set, originating instead with their 1/76 set that included several other poses that also didn't get scaled up down the road. It's probably my least-liked pose in the whole set (even over the binoculars guy) with the angle of his gaze and positioning of his feet making for somewhat baffling circumstances. I appreciate that the "inspired by" version adjusted the tilt of his head to look more like a guy advancing into combat instead of holding some off-screen ground critter at gunpoint.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:11:19 No.11609464 Report

Quoted By: >>11609467

>>11609462
Took seeing a few war movies to appreciate the seemingly odd layout of this pose, but he'll still end up representing KIAs more than anything.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:15:06 No.11609467 Report

Quoted By: >>11609469

>>11609464
Was a while before this pose made it into my armies, outside of the shorter ones. Typically he'll be paired with a binoculars guy, as iconic a duo as the medical droid and gonk droid in the original Battlefront 2.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:17:11 No.11609469 Report

Quoted By: >>11609471

>>11609467
Which of course brings us to said binoculars guy, a pose that somehow was always over-represented in your army relative to more useful, action-y poses. There's a giant version in back, too big for the shot but essentially the same as his shorter cousins.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:21:00 No.11609471 Report

Quoted By: >>11609473

>>11609469
The flamethrower was yet another latecomer to my standard-sized plastic armed forces. Would say one of my rarest army men is a figure of this pose in yellow, with a couple others almost as rare in that colour.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:24:39 No.11609473 Report

Quoted By: >>11609475

>>11609471
This photo includes one of my very first Matchbox soldiers, specifically the figure front and centre with the flashing all around his base. As I recollect I tried to chew it off at various times and eventually gave up, accepting him as is. This pose in general seems to suffer from fatigue as compared to the original where the bazooka was aiming at a more horizontal degree (the upsized version at back has managed to keep this angle).

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:27:52 No.11609475 Report

Quoted By: >>11609480

>>11609473
Lastly and not leastly the grenadier pose. Still remember being fascinated with the detail of him having several grenades on his person, like a character straight out of the cheap war comics I'd get from the saturday market toy stall. I do believe the centre figure with the slight flashing on his base is another of my originals, a hardbitten veteran of countless battles. One of this figure was the primary pose for Sgt. Moss in Plastic Apocalypse as well.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:34:38 No.11609480 Report

Quoted By: >>11609519

>>11609475
For reference here's those shrunk-down Matchbox copies, lacking the standing aiming rifleman, guy aiming at ground, crawling guy and bazookaman but including the officer with long coat and pistol. Their unit name derives from the fact that my childhood armies tended to have significantly larger numbers of good guy soldiers (Americans, Brits/Commonwealth) as opposed to enemies (Germans, Japanese, "Iraqis") so I designated them as a "Rebel" army that would fight on the latter's side. Between their smaller stature and (originally) considerable numbers they frequently served as cannon fodder but were certainly not to be underestimated.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 06:25:14 No.11609519 Report

Quoted By: >>11610547

>>11609480
I think there are a lot neat weird things here in all of these. The recasts as well as the changes to those recasts. Some of the weapons change in their detailing a huge amount.
A lot of the original "baggyness of uniforms trimmed away in some later versions.
>>11609458
like right here and the full-ish belt on the guy on the far right.
He's like fresh in the trench and feelin fine.
The guy on the far left is slumped. It's been two days of sporadic attacks and those pills they handed out.. well , he's pretty damned sure even German Forests don't have spiders like that.
Ammo is low. Steve the guy who'd been changing Betsy's barrels had wrapped his blistered hands both inside and on top of his blood seeping gloves. He wasn't even sure if his next shot would blow the last barrel - as pitted as it was and he could swear the damned thing had warped from the heat.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 04:05:04 No.11610547 Report

Quoted By: >>11610548 >>11610557

>>11609519
The drudgery and tragedy of war, even in toy form. Think my most visibly war-weary soldier is this guy, was part of a set of what I called the "cheap bucket-o-soldiers" unit when I first got them. Back then my first experience with the classic Timmee Vietnam War soldiers was a Toy Story Bucket-o-Soldiers" from K-Mart; these other guys seemed cheaply made and some of the poses were crude by comparison. There was an extra pose however of a marching soldier with slung rifle that just tugs at the heartstrings. His whole demeanour is that of a crushed soul, head downcast as he trudges along mile after mile, his inner pain all too visible on his downward gaze.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 04:06:45 No.11610548 Report

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>>11610547
These guys also frequently served in the enemy ranks, their allegiance justified by how crude and just plain darker green they were from their counterparts.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 04:22:54 No.11610557 Report

Quoted By: >>11610558 >>11610561 >>11627394

>>11610547

ALL of these guys seem a little frayed around the edges.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 04:25:47 No.11610558 Report

Quoted By: >>11610561

>>11610557

Maybe it's the winter gear.
I should invest in some Russians or Western Front Germans.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 04:33:03 No.11610561 Report

Quoted By: >>11610594

>>11610557
>>11610558
They're Korean War dudes right? Anyone having to fight Chinese hordes in any conditions, let alone winter is going to be a mess.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 05:25:04 No.11610594 Report

Quoted By: >>11610595

>>11610561
They always seem to be outnumbered and nerves are strained on the other side.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 05:26:27 No.11610595 Report

Quoted By: >>11610602

>>11610594
The giant rock creatures don't help either.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 05:43:40 No.11610602 Report

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>>11610595
>Gorignak! Gorignak! Gorignak! Gorignak!

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 18:22:30 No.11611062 Report

Quoted By: >>11611064

That other delivery I alluded to earlier in the week finally arrived yesterday, was "out for delivery" for almost week by that point heh. Seems this set was destined to be disappointing even before it arrived, as there was a small but significant difference in its contents from those shown in the listing. But they did include a complimentary fabric bag to hold everything so there's that, I guess.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 18:25:07 No.11611064 Report

Quoted By: >>11611069

>>11611062
It's pretty much an armour army-builder pack, all tanks all day, big and small. Going bag by bag, with the first one holding my secondary wants from the set, namely the beastly rocket tanks and a rendition of that Panzer IV I've brought up with those boxed sets (the little tank is from one of those to show the common turret ancestry). Sadly, the Panzer IV at back arrived a bit warped, might give the hot water trick a go but might also keep it as is.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 18:30:00 No.11611069 Report

Quoted By: >>11611072

>>11611064
This bag had a pleasant surprise in the form of a previously-seen tank, but enlarged from the ones I've had before to a more conventional army men size. The other three were in another large set I shared last thread and are rather less useful, though I'll find something for them to do.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 18:33:02 No.11611072 Report

Quoted By: >>11611074

>>11611069
The main reason I ordered this lot was for a pair of a nice IFVs which I've gotten in a couple other sets before and was hoping to increase my mechanized infantry capabilities with; regrettably they were nowhere to be found. After consulting the original listing image I believe this bag was meant to contain them; instead they substituted two more of the upsized tank of last bag which isn't a terrible replacement at least. The pair of twin-barrelled tanks are unusual in that they're slightly enlarged versions of one I've gotten before, but instead of having a movable turret they're molded in halves that divide the tank down the middle and keep its guns fixed forward. We'll see a few more tanks of this production technique in a bit.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 18:34:44 No.11611074 Report

Quoted By: >>11611075

>>11611072
And by in a bit I mean now, heh. The larger twin-barrelled tank is no more new to me than the smaller boys but is at least a proper army men size and an interestingly odd design.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 18:35:34 No.11611075 Report

Quoted By: >>11611077

>>11611074
Sidebar, that tank and the rocket tank use the same hull, which has detachable tread pieces as an additional oddity.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 18:38:13 No.11611077 Report

Quoted By: >>11611079

>>11611075
This Leopard 2-derived tank has been a staple of many cheap army men sets for a while, usually a little smaller. The baby tanks opposite are new to me I believe; think I have a similar design of comparable size but distinctly different from these.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 18:39:24 No.11611079 Report

Quoted By: >>11611080

>>11611077
The last tanks bag is just more of these two, certainly a cheap and easy way to build up a basic wargaming tank army I suppose.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 18:40:17 No.11611080 Report

Quoted By: >>11611082

>>11611079
And a bag of soldiers almost as an afterthought, same smaller-sized cheap dudes as seen so often in such sets.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 18:41:56 No.11611082 Report

Quoted By: >>11613738

>>11611080
For reference, the vehicle in foreground is the IFV I was hoping for but was denied. I accepted that reality and have ordered a couple more of the set where pic came from, which as a bonus will mean a couple more of that funny Chinese wheeled IFV.

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

Quoted By: >>11612175

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

Quoted By: >>11612179

>>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

Quoted By: >>11613774

>>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

Quoted By: >>11619201

Another day, another order from China.

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

Quoted By: >>11619205

>>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

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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

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>>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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>>11621314

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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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>>11621793

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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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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 01:27:24 No.11623060 Report

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>>11622275
Downtown Toronto.
not just rabid raccoons and the un-housed handing you full pages of cryptic scrawl.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 18:27:20 No.11624000 Report

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>>11622233
Haven't seen them on Ali for a bit.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 18:38:38 No.11624014 Report

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>>11624000
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002177231396.html
Their American counterparts are also pretty good.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 19:00:49 No.11624032 Report

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>>11624014
Any idea how they would scale with these guys?

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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 19:23:52 No.11624053 Report

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>>11624032
Those guys are on the smaller side compared to the jihadists, who are themselves a bit smaller than the standard army men size as demonstrated by a Timmee man here.

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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2025 00:04:17 No.11626302 Report

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Anonymous Mon 17 Nov 2025 07:33:15 No.11627390 Report

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>>11626302
love that shot.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Nov 2025 07:38:40 No.11627394 Report

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>>11610557

I think I asked before and have totally fogged it...
But I was thinking about getting some playfellows for these guys.(I'm a cheap bastard though.)
Are there any Stalingrad German /Russian army sets like the Korean Yank /North Korean one - or barring that Americans vrs other bundled up guys (Visions of Ice Station Zebra dance in my head) .
I suppose American / Japanese is like the last choice.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Nov 2025 08:03:31 No.11627408 Report

Quoted By: >>11630423

>>11627394
These BMC remakes of old Marx Russians aren't bad:
https://www.amazon.com/BMC-Classic-Marx-Russian-Plastic/dp/B07JL9C166
If your budget allows I'd say TSSD sets are right up your alley, haven't got any myself but they came to mind from seeing them all the time on ToySoldiersDepot:
https://www.toysoldiersdepot.com/store.php/thedustyloft/ct130565/toy-soldiers-of-san-diego-plastic-toy-soldier-sets

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Anonymous Thu 20 Nov 2025 17:37:03 No.11630423 Report

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>>11627408
I'm probably gonna wait till Black Friday in hopes things go down n Amazon.

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 02:37:08 No.11630771 Report

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>>11630423
I caved. I got some Russians on Ebay for about $15 less. they are the BRIGHT RED guys so I don't know how that's gonna go.
Then got some German longcoats.
They have a closer 'vibe I think.

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 02:38:39 No.11630772 Report

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>>11630771
these guys

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 04:53:55 No.11630844 Report

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>>11630771
You favour greyscale and sepia, n'est-ce-pas? Should work just fine.
>>11630772
These should definitely be a good fit.

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 18:47:42 No.11631258 Report

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>>11630844
Ya, I just kind of slide into Black and White...
I will probably give in and get some Stalingrad Russians eventually.

Anonymous

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