Is it my imagination, or is there a distinct lack of field medics out there.
Yes I know I should just convert figs...but im lazy.

Would love to do a Korea dio with medics unloading a helicopter onto a litter jeep, or an aftermath WW2 battle with US and German medics helping the wounded.

Anyone else feel like I do?

Most figures can pass for medics by simply grinding out their ammo pouches, if they have them and maybe painting in a red cross arm band, or hemet ID. My dad was a medic in the 50 Th. field hospital attached to the 101 St. Airborne. I have many pictures of him and his buddies and none of them show an armband. They, the medics, were generally unarmed , except for when they pulled guard duty or during the Battle of the Bulge, then they were armed because the Nazis were purposely shooting medics same as any other soldier. Most of them were given 45 autos, but some of them carried carbines.

There is a medic in the Dragon "Advance to the Rhine" US infantry set. Kit #6271. In the late 1970's, Heller made a couple of post-World War Two French Army stretcher bearers, which were subsequently reissued by Italeri as US troops (lots of little uniform details to correct, though).
ICM offers a set of Soviet medics, with a female doctor or nurse, two stretcher bearers and a casualty. Masterbox offers a set of three wounded German soldiers. Tamiya, of course, had a set of 1970's British stretcher bearers, offered with their Land Rover ambulance, and separately, but they would need some major conversion to depict Korea or World War Two.
I've seen white metal and resin medic figures from time to time over the years, but you'll have to search to find out what's available right now. In resin, Nemrod has a two-figure set featuring a US medic treating a soldier with a leg wound, as well as a single figure of a US medic walking with his medical pouch. Verlinden has a similar two-figure set, with a medic treating a casualty with an arm wound. Verlinden also has a two-figure set of a German medic and a casualty in a motorcycle coat, and they have a set of German aid station medical accessories as well.

Hello Jon,

Dragon has some Kits with german medics. First one is "German Medical Troops" (Two Medics, two wounded), second one is called "Fallen Comrade Aachen 1944, (4 Figures, at least one medic with Red Cross on back, chest and and armband medic pouch, one wounded).

Hope this one will help.

Regards Dennis

Hi....... as stated above there are ready made medic figures and I have some of them too, but don't let that limit you. You can easily convert just about any trooper to represent a medic. Just give him a bag or pack with a red cross and put a red cross on his helmet and there you go........... .........Al

Thank you for the replies folks, tis' appreciated.

I did a dio of a Korea HH-13 (Bell 47) cross loading wounded from the helo to a jeep using the Tamiya British stretcher team figures. I modified them to look like US soldiers by changing their web gear and canteens, etc. The other wounded on the jeep was from the old Testors/Italeri WWII US Marines set that included one wounded and a medic attending to him.

I think it came out pretty nicely. Of course, it was destroyed in a move so I no longer have it. Maybe I'll do another at some time. Sorry for the crappy pic, I had a really cheap digicam at the time.




There are a few modern medics and wounded sets as well.

CMK does a couple medics w/wounded on stretchers. Oddly enough, both are called US Marines in Iraq, while they are usable as any generic modern US soldiers.

CMKF35195 US Marines in Iraq


CMKF35196 US Marines in Iraq


Verlinden has wounded Marines in Iraq.


And Vietnam


Dragon also does a couple Vietnam sets.

US Marines (Khe Sanh 1968) set w/ wounded Marine.


US Marines (Tet Offensive 1968) with one carrying a wounded Marine.

Here are some WWII medic options:
http://www.usarmymodels.com/MANUFACTURERS/Nemrod/nemrod.html
http://www.usarmymodels.com/MANUFACTURERS/VerlindenProductions/verlinden.html
http://www.usarmymodels.com/MANUFACTURERS/GeneralIssue/generalissue.html
http://www.usarmymodels.com/MANUFACTURERS/Belgo/belgo.html
http://www.usarmymodels.com/MANUFACTURERS/Plus/plusmodel.html
http://www.usarmymodels.com/MANUFACTURERS/ValiantMiniatures/valiant.html
http://www.usarmymodels.com/MANUFACTURERS/Yanks/yanks.html

And a field clearing station diorama I'm fond of:
http://www.usarmymodels.com/MODEL%20GALLERY/Hurtgen%20Forest/1intro.html

Cheers,

Tim
www.usarmymodels.com