The Italeri WWII U.S. Army infantry set has a pretty good .30 caliber machine gun team. The tripod and gun are two separate parts. The hand grip of the machine gun has the hand of the gunner molded onto it. It fits together pretty well, but I would rather have had a larger base for the gunner and gun. It is nice to get a three man team, it would have been even better to get an ammo belt for the machine gun, a major omission!
The Grease Gunner is one of the few firing poses in the set. A great figure.
This tanker is firing his Colt .45 pistol. The barrel looks a bit short, it may be a Colt Commander, a slightly shorter version. General Patton was a tanker and an Olympic pistol shooter. In the old days duelers used to turn their side towards the other duelist so as to present a thin aspect to their opponent. This stance eventually became popular for Olympic and law enforcement and military shooters.
Several of the figures in this set look like they are on patrol, this little vignette shows the BAR gunner. Pretty good, but it would have been great if the BAR man was looking in the direction he was pointing his automatic rifle.
Two more men on patrol, Italeri seems to like the point the gun left and look right pose. I do not. Troops point the gun where they are looking so they can shoot at what they see. Nice carbine and M1 rifle armed troops. The sculpting of this set is fantastic and the figures very lifelike.
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