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Friday, September 25, 2009

1/72nd Scale Soft Plastic Figure Sets to Make

There are many 1/72nd scale soft plastic figure sets that I would love to buy, if some company would make them. I am certain that they would be popular enough to sell well.

Pre-history
Cro-Magnon man
Male and female and children, with throwing spears, clubs, knives, bows and arrows

Neanderthal man
Male and female and children, with spears, clubs, knives

Prehistoric Mammals
Saber tooth tiger, giant sloth, giant birds, mammoth, bison latifrans

American Civil War
US Navy Sailors Naval Landing Party

First World War
US Army Cavalry 1918
British style helmet with Springfield rifles, .45 pistols, .45 revolvers, and sabers

US Army Heavy Artillery 1918
British style helmet with Schneider 155 mm French howitzer,
Do the same gun with a WWII era US Army crew with rubber tires for WWII

Interwar Adventures
Spies, secret police, espionage people
Fedora hats, trench coats, cameras, pistols, submachine guns, male and female, German, British, American, and Soviet

Oilfield and Construction Workers
Hard hats, jump suits, shovels, picks, axes, transits and surveyors, big hammers and wrenches and jackhammers and toolboxes, wheelbarrows

Scientists and Archaeologists and Paleontologists and Hunters
Pith helmets, fedora hats, bare headed, male and female, kneeling with brushes, dental picks, working with test tubes and chemical glasses, microscopes, cameras, guns

1920’s American Roaring 20’s Gangsters, Police & Citizens
Police with revolvers, Thompson submachine guns, shotguns, Browning Automatic Rifles, Colt .45 pistol, Gangsters with Thompsons, sawed off shotguns, various handguns, male and female and citizens with double barrel shotguns, and walking, running

World War Two
US Navy UDT Frogmen Divers
Swimming trunks, with flippers, mask, snorkel, demolition charges, knife, small assault team with Thompson submachine guns, Colt .45 and M1 Carbines, Hard hat divers with hammer, wrench, knife, cutting torch

US Navy Landing Party For Raiding and Amphibious Landing Control
Helmets, and Sailor hats, Thompson submachine guns, Colt .45, Springfield rifles, demolitions charges, signal flags, ship to shore radio, Aldis lamp, Officers with maps and binoculars

American Infantry Philippines Bataan 1941/42
British style helmets, M1 and Springfield rifles, BAR, Browning water-cooled machine gun, Colt .45 pistol and revolver, Lewis guns, grenades

26th Cavalry Philippine Scouts 1941/42
Campaign hats, Colt .45 pistols, M1 Garands mounted and dis-mounted

Russian Panje ponies and wagons

Heavy and light baggage wagons for use by Russian and German troops

Hungarian Infantry

Dutch Infantry, European and Far East, Pacific

Cold War/ Cuban Missile Crisis 1963

US Army Infantry
M-14 rifles, M-1919A6 light machine gun

Cuban Infantry
Mix of US and USSR weapons, beards, Ridgeway hats

To the best of my knowledge none of these sets are in the pipeline from any soft plastic figure company. I think these sets would be popular and would sell well. All of these sets come up over and over again in discussions of new figure sets. Since I don't do ancients, or Napoleonics there are no sets from those eras.

2 comments:

ModernKiwi said...

Hey Mike

This guy does 1/72nd Cavemen/women and creatures.

http://sites.google.com/site/phersuminiatures/available-miniatures-and-models/prehistoric-cavemen-and-animals-1

They look pretty good too.

Cheers

Mike Bunkermeister Creek said...

Thanks Grumpikiwi, that's some pretty cool stuff. I may have to order some this month!