U.S. Paratroopers with Bazooka
Modeling the U.S. Army in WWII

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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Modeling the U.S. Army in WWII © 2002—2007 Timothy S. Streeter