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Hisham
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Posted: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 04:26 AM UTC
Good looking group of figures for the Land Rover kits

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Posted: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 04:34 AM UTC
I was finally able to save the pic





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Posted: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 05:32 AM UTC
Good catch Hisham. They look like another good set of figures from Masterbox
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Posted: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 06:29 AM UTC
I love Land Rovers but haven't got much knowledge about SAS.

What makes those figures SAS?

I see one of them has a beard, but otherwise...

Cheers,

Christophe
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Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 04:01 AM UTC
Good find. Also I don't think the SAS use the SA80. They would make pretty good pathfinders/brigade patrol troop with just a little work. I'll be getting a set to go with my landy.
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Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 12:58 PM UTC
I love the interaction of the figures, Masterbox is No1 in making cool vignettes out of the box. However, I also don't see these as SAS.

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Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 01:09 PM UTC
Hi Hisham,

thanks for sharing. They are looking nice. Would be cool to see some modern Australian SAS Figures too with shemagh for example or an SAS team like Bravo-two-zero in the 90´s.

Something like this would be very cool too Masterbox ;-).

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Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 10:22 PM UTC

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Good find. Also I don't think the SAS use the SA80. They would make pretty good pathfinders/brigade patrol troop with just a little work. I'll be getting a set to go with my landy.



They look like most British troops to be honest, nothing about them would strike me as 'SAS'. As you said, I don't believe they use the SA80- I think they use for their main assault rifles Canadian license built versions of the M4. They might also use the Sharpshooter rifle introduced to the British Army a few years ago. I'd point out the helmets too- they look fairly standard issue- the SAS would probably either go without or use some of the myriad of specialized helmets out there.
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Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 10:25 PM UTC
I wonder why Masterbox is calling them SAS?!

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Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 10:33 PM UTC
I can ask Mr. Zhurshenkov tommorow in Nuremberg.
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Posted: Saturday, January 31, 2015 - 08:12 PM UTC
I see from your other post in the armor forum that they listened.

Cheers,

Christophe

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Posted: Saturday, January 31, 2015 - 09:03 PM UTC
Hans- that thread of yours about Nuremberg seems to have vanished- do you know what happened to it ?
Hisham
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Posted: Saturday, January 31, 2015 - 09:16 PM UTC
So I wasn't just seeing things.. first I couldn't see the users info.. then the whole thing disappeared

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Posted: Saturday, January 31, 2015 - 09:33 PM UTC
He said the chap realised that they are not s.a.s and would be re titled.
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Posted: Saturday, January 31, 2015 - 09:46 PM UTC
Does that front lower left guy in the last pic have a beard?
I saw the other post and agree, they dont have enough Gucci gear or be SAS.
But Specops sells kits, so there we go.
Mod brit kit is not my cuppa, but glad they are out there just the same.
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Posted: Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 12:19 PM UTC
I'm not bothered about them being 'SAS', they look like pretty decent brit figures for a WMIK.
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Posted: Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 01:17 PM UTC

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Hans- that thread of yours about Nuremberg seems to have vanished- do you know what happened to it ?



Has been mistakenly erased by staff member.
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Posted: Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 02:00 PM UTC
While I spoke with Masterbox about the SAS issue, he asked me about images of contemporary SAS trooper. I told himn that these will be hard to get. So if anyone here can point out something it will be helpful. No retired SAS personal here???
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Posted: Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 02:11 PM UTC
I also saw the "SAS mislabel" post last night, MB confirmed it is wrong and are going to re- label them.....
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 - 02:58 AM UTC
"SAS" and "Para" Sell. Put "1st Royal Anglian's" or "4,Rifle's" on the box and only sell half the amount!!
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 - 04:50 AM UTC

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'. As you said, I don't believe they use the SA80- I think they use for their main assault rifles Canadian license built versions of the M4.



The C7 and C8 rifles while similar to the M16 and M4 are actually quite different as they were modified to withstand the harsher conditions Canadian soldiers are faced with in Canada. From summers in the prairies with dust and +45 C tempratures to -30/40 C temps during the winters. That is the reason the Colt Canada/Dimeaco one was selected over the standard M4. In British service the C8 CQB Carbine is designated the L119A1.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 - 06:05 AM UTC

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I'm not bothered about them being 'SAS', they look like pretty decent brit figures for a WMIK.



I agree, we need more cold war and modern British figures Army, Navy And Air Force
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 - 05:33 PM UTC

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'. As you said, I don't believe they use the SA80- I think they use for their main assault rifles Canadian license built versions of the M4.



The C7 and C8 rifles while similar to the M16 and M4 are actually quite different as they were modified to withstand the harsher conditions Canadian soldiers are faced with in Canada. From summers in the prairies with dust and +45 C tempratures to -30/40 C temps during the winters. That is the reason the Colt Canada/Dimeaco one was selected over the standard M4. In British service the C8 CQB Carbine is designated the L119A1.



Interesting info there- thanks for that !
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 - 07:59 PM UTC
A quick reply, the SAS does use the Dimeaco as do 1 Para SFSG. The Pathfinders use the WMIK as do the SBS. Pathfinders I believe also use the Dimeaco. Live Resin are producing L85a1/A2 along with LSWs so pretty much all bases covered. The SAS don't use the WMIK as they moved from the DPV to the Jackal.

Regarding beards....they were common in Afghan especially with the outlying FBs when water was short and when the troops dealt with the local population as a beard is a sign of maturity.
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Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2015 - 03:52 PM UTC
I do know without any doubt that the SAS dont do gucci
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