German Paratroopers

Pegasus 1/72nd scale WWII German Paratroopers attack.

Supported by Caesar Miniatures German Paratroopers.

And a Roco Stug III.

They shelter behind a Marx building.

Forces of Valor light pole and ruins.

The troops work well together.

 

 

Together they make a nice little combat scene.

Pegasus and Caesar Miniatures Paratroops

I really like this pose.

He works well with the bazooka man.

Pegasus officer with Caesar Miniatures NCO.

The Pegasus panzerfaust man is using the correct firing procedure, but many did fire them like the Caesar figure shown here.

Grenade throwers, essentially the same pose!

Submachine gunners.

FG42 assault rifles.

Pegasus standing machine gunner and Caesar prone machine gunner.  The two sets complement each other well, everyone needs to buy both sets!

HaT & Caesar Tank Riders

Here are the Caesar figures in gray and HaT in green.

Detail is a bit better on the Caesar, but only four guys actually riding the tank.

Caesar does give you guys on the ground, and that's always good.

Germans rode on tanks a lot because they were short on trucks.

Caesar and HaT Tank Riders

These are the new Caesar Miniatures WWII German Soldiers with Tank Riders

 

They were $11.95 at my local hobby shop. 

 

 

These are the HaT set, they are 1/72nd scale I think they fit just fine on a Roco Tiger I.

 

Caesar has just introduced a lot of new figures, mostly WWII German in multi part sets. 

Bambi

At Christmas time you can sometimes find sleds and animals that work for wargames.  This year I got two packs of reindeer.  This was one set.

This is set two, I got them at Hobby Lobby, it was all they had.

They are not the best, but they are plastic, and durable.

Some are on little vegetation bases because they are leaping.

This one with head down is a nice pose.

Caesar Miniatures Winter Germans with a herd of reindeer.

The reindeer can be used to tow sleds and wagons in the German Army in WWII.

This Bambi does not have to fear hunters as much as some others...

French and French

Pegasus WWI French with Caesar Miniatures WWI French. You can see the sizes are very good together.

Most of the WWI French can be used as WWII French as WWI kit and weapons were still in use in WWII. The Pegasus WWII French are, of course, the same size as these. It has taken Pegasus years to bring these to market. At one point the figures were almost ready to be sent to the mold maker when they discovered a huge error in the web gear and uniform. So they changed the masters and that delayed production at least a year.

Since most large figure companies don't have full time employees, but rather contract the master sculpting, mold making and actual production they are at the mercy of those contractors. Sometimes they work very closely together and sometimes they have very little contact with each other. These figures are great and they should be in stores by the end of the year.