Dollar Store Cannon

While at my local dollar store recently I found several sets of soldiers with accessories. One of the nice thing about the dollar store is you can buy a set like this even if you only need one part of it because the items are so cheap.

This is the contents of this set. The figures are randomly assorted, but there were four versions of the sets.

The small cannons are similar to some British cannons that were made under contract to the British government in the First World War. Once the US got into the war, the guns were then made for the US Army, but re-chambered for the same ammo as used in the 75mm guns the US was getting from the French.

These guns were used by the US Army at least until 1942. These MPC ring hand figures make a good crew for these guns. I got five of them.

The Tim Mee Jeep can tow these cannons and they look pretty good together.

I have no doubt that these cannons will appear in a future edition of the Atomic Testing Base 60mm adventure.

Caesar Germans

Caesar have done so many WWII German sets I have actually lost count on the number. I will say this may be the best one. While I am a late war guy and these are early war, I am very impressed.


These are the different poses found in this set. There are only 37 figures in the set, but they are all good.

As is typical for Caesar, there is no sprue, just a little nub on the base. I have removed the nub, but not cleaned up the base. The set has two different types of submachine gunner. They usual MP38 is joined by the more unique MP28. The older machine gun was used all during the war, but naturally more common at the beginning.

This figure standing at attention is highly detailed. It is hard to believe how much detail Caesar can get on these one inch tall soldiers.

A front view of the two submachine gunners. Both are excellent figures and the one on the right is a particularly aggressive pose. Good job Caesar. More on these guys later.