Nemrod
35001
This
is the first set of paratroopers from Nemrod, and it does an excellent
job setting the standard for those that have followed. The sculpting
is first-rate, the attention to detail is marvelous, and the casting
is virtually flawless.
The
pair is about to fire off an M1 bazooka (a donor from one of DML's
kits, as is the M1 Garand). The loader has a rocket in hand; he
wouldn't want to be standing behind the bazooka if waiting for it
to be fired, so keep that in mind while setting up your figures.
The
soldiers wear the M1942 paratrooper jacket and pants. The reinforcement
patches over the elbows and knees are molded into the figures, and
you might want to paint them a greener color. The patches were added
by riggers to many, but not all, of the uniforms paratroopers wore
on D-Day.
Additional
gear included one entrenching tool and canteen; you might want to
pull another shovel and canteen from the spares box. Pouches and
M1 trench knives are molded onto the figures. There are two different
M1936 musette bags, as Nemrod recognized that no two bags are going
to be identical.
These
figures come in four pieces, the arms and head separate from the
body piece. Parts are crisply sculpted and molded, with a minimal
amount of flash and seams to clean up. There are no locator pins
for the arms, and the weapons do not have hands molded onto them,
so care will be necessary in aligning the parts for gluing.
The
figures scale out to under 6' tall, comparable in size with DML's
"U.S. Army Airborne (Normandy 1944)." You could feature
this duo in a nice setting of paratroopers stalking some German
armor in the days after liberation of Europe began.
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