What a really great kit with keen detail in 1/35 scale!



The trick is that some of these metal pieces are very prone to bending and eventually will break (namely, the Thompson machine gun barrel and its magazine). Simply by laying this down is enough to bend the pieces and eventually – they will break, making it difficult to replace, unless you buy a second kit. Also the magazine has dotted impressions that I am unfamiliar with. Sorry, I lost my Histoire & Collections D-Day Paratroopers Vol 1 US Airborne to Hurricane Katrina, but the dots along the side of the Thompson machine gun magazine look peculiar. And, the complexion of the paratrooper uniforms look olive in the kit cover. Photos of actual uniforms show them to be tan, or at least verisons of light brown. ( Were the uniforms different in color in Normandy than those worn during Operation Market Garden? )



Another item is that I find the Paratrooper with M-1 looks far better if his neck is extended. To do this one should super glue the head and neck so that it sits higher. Of course this leaves a noticeable gap where the neck meets the collar and is merely a matter of filling the gap.



To give a more authentic appearance gun slings should be added. These do not come with the kit but may be created by cutting foil or buying an etched accessory kit .

Instead of having the Thompson pointed to the ground I have pointed it skyward to give it a more dynamic appearance.

I am pleased to the lengths that Infinity has gone to not only wrap the figures into a foam pad, but encase each figure and each figures accessories into separate clear packages. Wow!

Hi Roger,

You wrote a good brief review.

I think the reason for the bending of the white metal is the very tight shrinkwrapping and rollup of all the pieces in the foam. I have the "Modern US Soldier" from Infinity Shape and the barrel of the M-16A2 is bent. The same applies to the barrel of one M4 on in my "Special Forces Set." The good news is that my barrels are bent, not broken .

Another issue I have with the white metal is that the details are so sharp and crisp that I don't know what is a seam line and what is a molding line. What should I sand off, and what is detail? I find it easier to spot flaws, defects, flash, and mold lines with resin than with white metal.

Infinity Shape makes some excellent figures and I hope they'll continue to do so.

Thanks for that review. I have always been a fan of this particular uniform. I will eventually pick up this pair. The perforations in the magazine you mentioned are supposed to be holes in the magazine so a soldier can see how many rounds are in the magazine. I think there's a hole every five rounds.

Thanks. This had me mystified. And it makes sense. This is a great kit.

Roger

To my suprise--it was not till I mail ordered, Sainte Mere Eglise Photograhs of D Day (D Day Publishing), did I discover that some US jump uniforms were camoflauged in two tones; not just one. Tan with green applied as pattern on top. This is depicted in color photos on page' s 258, 259, 271, and uniform a Sgt Bliss wore on D-Day spray painted with two tones of green! Some of the the steel helmets were camoflauged with more than one color, as on page 273. Even the M-2 parachutist helmbet of General Matthew B. Ridgway has two tone, banded camoflauge which is most unusual. This would be a challenge to depict this in the Infinity kit. This is a fantastic publication.

Roger