Hi André,
Maybe the chances of a useful reply would be greater if this question was in the Figures forum in the Armorama section.

Let me know if you would like to move it.
/ Robin

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Hi André,
Maybe the chances of a useful reply would be greater if this question was in the Figures forum in the Armorama section.

Let me know if you would like to move it.
/ Robin

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Robin, thank you. Can you move it to the Figures forum.
André

These are indeed 90's figures from the First Gulf War and not really suitable for the Falklands, they are in tropical kit not the artic like kit used on the Pebble Island raid. They also did not use Kleppers on the PI raid

Al

André,

I'm afraid I disagree. With a few tweaks I feel these figures could be made into decent representations of the SF in the Falklands.

Replace the headdress with woollen caps (something akin to the US Watch Caps or a rolled up Balaclava). The smocks wouldn't need much to modify to the DPM issued Artic or SAS Windproof - add some Milliput or similar to form a hood, either loose or rolled up.

I might be wrong about the Chest Rigs but suspect that these would be around at the time - SF always seem to have access to whatever they want - ditto weaponry (!) As I've only got the illustration to go on I suspect a water bottle or 2 might be at the rear of the belt. This would be either 58 pattern, 44 pattern or even the US type.

I'd replace the rifle with an earlier version from say, the Italeri weapons set. This would also be camouflage painted with say, green stripes.

The British Army issue sniper rifle at the time was the 7.62mm L42A1 not the type depicted, but again, given the largesse the SF benefit from when it comes to weaponry, there may well have been other types available. You could of course always replace it with another M16 - the resultant pair of figures would still look pretty good I feel.

The boots might need a bit of thickening up with a swipe or 2 or Mr Dissolved Plastic Putty to represent civilian pattern hiking boots favoured by SF. The desert ones shown might look a bit insubstantial otherwise.

Uniform colours would of course be British DPM but I'm sure you know that; camouflage cream on face and hands. Canoe of course, as Al pointed out, was not used.

Brian

André,

I'm afraid I disagree. With a few tweaks I feel these figures could be made into decent representations of the SF in the Falklands.

Replace the headdress with woollen caps (something akin to the US Watch Caps or a rolled up Balaclava). The smocks wouldn't need much to modify to the DPM issued Artic or SAS Windproof - add some Milliput or similar to form a hood, either loose or rolled up.

I might be wrong about the Chest Rigs but suspect that these would be around at the time - SF always seem to have access to whatever they want - ditto weaponry (!) As I've only got the illustration to go on I suspect a water bottle or 2 might be at the rear of the belt. This would be either 58 pattern, 44 pattern or even the US type.

I'd replace the rifle with an earlier version from say, the Italeri weapons set. This would also be camouflage painted with say, green stripes.

The British Army issue sniper rifle at the time was the 7.62mm L42A1 not the type depicted, but again, given the largesse the SF benefit from when it comes to weaponry, there may well have been other types available. You could of course always replace it with another M16 - the resultant pair of figures would still look pretty good I feel.

The boots might need a bit of thickening up with a swipe or 2 or Mr Dissolved Plastic Putty to represent civilian pattern hiking boots favoured by SF. The desert ones shown might look a bit insubstantial otherwise.

Uniform colours would of course be British DPM but I'm sure you know that; camouflage cream on face and hands. Canoe of course, as Al pointed out, was not used.

Brian