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I hate these decaying threads. Some threads in /co could go on for months.
>>11631974Before the dark times the army men general could last half the year, no posts for days at a time but maximum comfy. I will grant that the Colour Wars was largely born out of a desire to still fill out the thread within its much-reduced lifetime, though if the 14 day cutoff were rescinded it would certainly continue without issue, perhaps requiring four or five threads a year instead of two heh.
>>11632266Where are these guys from?
>>11632266 Looks like Desert Storm.>>11632271 I keep seeing crap cowboys and Indians on Ali - with $18-$20 shipping. I can't say I'm not tempted though.
>>11634243Those specific soldiers are included in several army men sets on AliExpress, box sets in small, mid and large size with an element of chance as to what you'll get in terms of colours of accessories, vehicle assortment and soldier poses.The set as a whole goes back a ways, most of the poses are modern with a couple exceptions that appear more fitting to a WW2 battlefield. This new edition of the set has added a couple additional poses, lifted directly from The Corps Elite set (minigunner and bazookaman).
>>11634428Yeah when I bought one I wasn't terribly impressed with the figures themselves, but man I had to gush some over the nostalgic accessories. The main issue with the figures is they've modified the molds to put blunted ends on all the otherwise sharp points, which is especially onerous with the cowboys' revolvers.There is (or was a couple years ago anyway) a store selling better quality sets of the figures on their own in four different colours.
>>11634630Decent old school cowboys and indians sets aren't too common these days, it has its flaws and of course the shipping but is a fun set.
>>11634635 I saw some the other day but didn't have a real chance to look. I was out with my girlfriend and really wanted to get a pack of Dinos I also saw but she vetoed them as it has another of these trolling Raptors I own. - But I did get a Power of the Force Sandperson *she* found in the next store we went in. - so that was okay. I got my Germans. it's beginning to look a lot like Hell outside. (of the frozen sort.) and I had a drugged migraine all day but took some test shots of a couple of guys
>>11634718 Slightly more "decisive" than the Americans but again I like the bulk.
>>11634718>>11634719 re-sized phone pics. They are actually color shots but the light is low. I can exploit that.
>>11634718>>11634719>>11634721These are quite nice, will certainly be a good fit with the desperation of winter fighting through the forests of the Ardennes.
>>11635487 I'm hoping the Russians look good with them. I know the Americans and Koreans will look fine.
>>11635536 He's so tired.
>>11635536Those Russians are going to be similiar in style to these Japanese.
Hey yall, im trying to find some good army men toys based off the wild west, like those Cowboys and Indian sets, but most are either really bad quality or are too expensive. Do you yall know any good brands that makes wild west army men?
>>11635793 I saw some Stalingrad Russians that looked to be more what was looking for.. maybe after Christmas.
>>11635815Timmee has a set on Amazon that should be good quality, decent price too. There's some other sets there but I couldn't speak to how good they are quality-wise, been mostly collecting soldiers.
Got another of these sets, smaller with only three armies but I had faint hopes that there could be some soldiers from a set of Japanese I've only been able to get as part of a larger playset, and only as the separate base style.
>>11636341Alas, it seems the listing photo lied and the troop contents are entirely of the 8th Route Army soldiers. The set had half the number of tanks, jeeps and artillery as the larger set and none of the rocket trucks, but the same amount of colourful jets (sadly one came with a broken nose and the missing bit wasn't in the bag).
>>11636344The rest of the accessories were also fewer in number, save for the trio of sandbag walls which were in equal number to the other set. For some reason there were several more of those generic action figure weapons as well.
>>11636346There was one other area where this set exceeded its larger cousin - flags, 8 to the other set's 4. Yemen makes a reappearance, joined by China, Turkey, Pakistan... and Madagascar.
>>11636354In keeping with these sets' signature move there was a single giant included with the green, grey and olive tan armies of Chinese fanatics. Think this will be it for these sets, with 3 battalions and 2 companies worth in five colours I've ample supplies of cannon fodder to throw into the Colour Wars.
>>11636362Also arriving recently are the "guerrilla fighters" of a certain religious background, now in green.
>>11636364Alongside their red and yellow counterparts these tribal warriors can more accurately reflect the diversity of the region.
>>11636365Cracks me up that the set designer saw fit to equip two of the poses with obvious German Schmeisser submachine guns; British Lee Enfields would've been a better choice, though realistically they're most likely all packing AK variants and (in more recent times) US kit.
>>11638288Browncoats
test shot
>>11640975Nice
>>11641545And now there is a blizzard
The only blizzard we have to fear is Dairy Queen's (them sugars)
Something a little different...
>>11645118 Honestly pretty neat.
>>11646379Been tinkering with a few pictures, have to say the results can be cool, a little weird or downright hilarious.
>>11646792 That's how these things seem to go.I like how sometimes it just creates stuff it things belongs. With that shot though... Backblast gotta hurt.
>>11646968Probably the funniest was when the rocket decided to launch backwards, not sure where that came from as I'd used the same prompts with minor tweaks. Yeah for a couple of them it added more soldiers from off-screen, a bizarre blend of animated army men but with coloured weapons.All this takes me back to reading the old Indian in the Cupboard books (and the movie), particularly that one incident where a gang of skinheads breaks into the house so the kid brings a pile of soldiers to life and they successfully fight them off.
>>11646993 I have to ask what page you are using...I one I used for Joes used "tokens" that renewed every day but one day just stopped.
>>11647372Been using a couple different ones but mostly this one https://video.a2e.ai/ Doing their Pro subscription
>>11636365love that injured guy>>11638288where'd you get the Virginia battle flag? I heard amazon banned them or something.
>>11647826From Amazon, ironically. Those guys are from BMC's Battle of Petersburg set and while the listing shows large and small blank flags, the small ones are not quite so empty after all.
>>11647830It's a weird set, they took poses from two different sets and made figures for both sides, couldn't even get the colours to match up.
>>11647832The best part is the set includes a Gatling gun, with Grant and Lee figures to lead the respective sides.
>>11647835Speaking of Amazon and censorship, this one set I got a while back definitely fell victim to it. The side of the box had a note explaining a plain red flag replaced the Confederate one, because someone's feefees might be hurt or something.
>>11647836And this proved to be the case. However...
>>11647837Seems the toy company had the last laugh, as one of the Confederate poses is a flag-bearer. Must say the set in general had other issues, from ridiculous amounts of inaccurate artillery to terribly random pose distribution but that proud Rebel thumbing his nose at political correctness was worth it.
>>11647839Didn't even get all of the potential poses in that box so I ended up buying a second one, think I'm still missing one or two but I had to cut myself off. I mean what do with all this? (times two, mind).
>>11647840Incidentally these also came from Amazon just last year, the set is still available and the Rebel flag is even in the main listing image.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000RK3W08
>>11647841Lastly, these boys are from ViiKONDO on AliExpress, blunted bayonets and slightly scaled down but properly bannered.
>>11636365 My gf has been sort of hinting that she "wouldn't mind" seeing me buy these guys.
>>11647850>*terrorists win*
>>11647855 I caved.
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