Mustang
Productions
35008
I like
this dough-faced guy with the swatch of hair hanging out from under
his helmet. Unlike most of the angular, battle-worn faces that are
typically seen on scale figures, one can read a little more into
this guy's look. I see him as a Midwestern farm kid, not a naive
rube but a confident and competent soldier who is up to the job
at hand. Credit sculptor Anders Heintz with capturing that can-do
spirit of the citizen soldiers of WWII.
Heintz's
sculpting is well-executed and the figure is presented as one piece,
no separate head. On the backside, the figure has a bad case of
"droopy drawers," which underscores the fact that soldiers
didn't always get the best-fitting uniforms (in fact, when GIs did
have the opportunity to have their clothes washed by the Quartermaster
Corps, there was no guarantee that the uniform that came back to
them would be their own!).
There
are only a couple blemishes in the casting, perhaps due to torn
molds, with the space filled on the right side of the neck between
the helmet and collar, and a bump along the zippered fly (no, it's
not what you might think!). Neither of these errors appear in the
box art figure, also painted by Heintz. And as another nice change
of pace, this tanker wears the cotton poplin field jacket rather
than the winter combat jacket usually seen on armored crews. It
will be nice to see what other figures Heintz will have to offer.
Product
sample provided by Mustang Productions.
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