I'm hoping there are some figure manufacturers that read this forum. I have the Meng FT-17 and some aftermarket US decals....now all I need are some tank crew figures. There are British, French and German figures available in resin...yet no US figures. The US license produced the FT17 in great numbers. Help a brother out here.

Ditto ! A Lt. G.S. Patton & crew would be perfect !

I think that Lt Patton was in Mexico.
Dan

Patton went from CPT to LTC during WWI. He did crew a couple FT-17s in combat, but was mainly the head of the AEF Tank School and 302d Tank BDE Commander.

Good catch guys ! Thanks !
Looked it up on Wikipedia. He was made Capt. on 5/15/17. Went to tank school at Champlieu on 11/10/17. Promoted to Major on 1/26/18 and took command of the first 10 US Army tanks at Bourg on 3/23/18, even backing the first 8 tanks off the rail cars.
So, I guess we need a Lt. Patton on horseback and a Maj. GS Patton for an FT-17.
Thanks again for the catch !
Tom

Tom,
He was actually in a motor car chasing Poncho Villa in Mexico.
Dan

The ICM US infantry 1917 has the officer with camera figure which is close to. what some officers insisted on wearing even around tanks. There is a picture of Patton wearing the tunic, trousers and cavalry leggings standing next to an American tank. I used the ICM figure in the diorama I helped do for a museum. (With the curator looking over my shoulder) I pushed up the sides of the campaign hat in cavalry style too.

The ICM US medical troops set has a couple of AEF guys in plain uniforms that would work for tank crew. But no one in the most common outfit that even Patton wore in a picture. Plain old coveralls and a side cap.

There's even a dearth of US Air service ground crew types. Again coveralls and a side cap or even campaign hat. Mounted troops were like that even then. After all the recruiting poster said "treat'em rough, join the tanks"

Most of the tank crews in France wore French style coveralls. There really was no standardized "tankers" uniform for US tank crews in WWI.
VR, Russ

I see a market for a generic "guy in coveralls" figure with a selection of heads.

Most World War II Russian tank figures are in coveralls and stand collars visible underneath. So with some playing with the pockets and a new head with a side cap or campaign hat you get a US WW I tank crewman. The side cap is easy because of all the different varieties used by US troops in Europe (there's a photo of a group of officers wearing them and they're all different)

But I'm the kind of guy who wanted 1/35 British and German World War I infantry 20 years ago and just converted German World War II infantry based on fall collar tunics.

Master-Box and Mini-Art have done such sets, labeling them as Drivers and Mechanics, however, as you said, the headgear would need to be changed.
VR, Russ

Well fellas....I guess I'll do a little research and make myself a set of tankers with coveralls. Thanks for responding.