Yep, I just wish a manufacturer would get it right....if you make a kit with decals for a certain time frame....make the right infantry (paratroopers) wearing the appropriate uniform to suit the early/ late war time frame.

Yep, I just wish a manufacturer would get it right....if you make a kit with decals for a certain time frame....make the right infantry (paratroopers) wearing the appropriate uniform to suit the early/ late war time frame.

The US infantry figures don't have any canteens, bayonets or entrenching tools.

Even the airborne typically carried more gear.

And just to make 100% certain: these figures are wearing double buckle boots and the 1944 combat uniform as worn by the US airborne in Operation Market Garden. So with very little modification they can also be standard US infantry. Mostly get rid of the thigh pockets. But you don't have to.

BTW, if you have any of the Academy M3 Lee or Grant kits you will have a full set of solid road wheels left over. Every Academy Sherman kit has many of the bits left over that can be used to update and detail one of these.

The joy of spare parts and generous companies putting similar parts on multiple sprues over the succeeding generations of kits.

Looks pretty interesting, I like the infantry included. I'm still looking forward to the ASUKA Model 35-047 M4A1 76mm.

:D, you know what's really ironic is that a third of the US airborne divisions wore what you call the "1942" uniform of short jacket and leggings: the glider infantry.

I've seen pictures of them tank riding and you think; oh US regular infantry but they all have 101 ABN patches. It's the glider infantry. Can't win.

Still will get the set for a Battle of the Bulge or Spring of '45 tank.

Oh and they're PERFECT as is for Korean War infantry even with to the thigh pockets.