Figures Want List

 Every few years I update my list of 1/72nd scale soft plastic figures that I would like to buy.

 

 I spend a lot of time doing head swaps and other conversion tasks to make figures that I can't get otherwise.

Once in a while I like to publish my "Want List" of 1/72nd scale soft plastic figures. Redbox tried to do the cops and robbers on my list, but I am not satisfied with their efforts, but they would be a good starting point for anyone else doing them.

This is my present list. Please add your comments to suggest future figures you would like to see.

Cold War/ Cuban Missile Crisis 1963
US Army Infantry
M-14 rifles, M-1919A6 light machine gun

World War Two

US Navy UDT Frogmen Divers & Hard Hat Divers
Swimming trunks, with flippers, mask, snorkel, demolition charges, knife, small assault team with Thompson submachine guns, Colt .45 and M1 Carbines, Hard hat divers with hammer, wrench, knife, cutting torch

US Navy Landing Party For Raiding and Amphibious Landing Control
Helmets, and Sailor hats, Thompson submachine guns, Colt .45, Springfield rifles, demolitions charges, signal flags, ship to shore radio, Aldis lamp, Officers with maps and binoculars.

Dutch Infantry, European and Far East, Pacific

Interwar Adventures
Spies, secret police, espionage people
Fedora hats, trench coats, cameras, pistols, submachine guns, male and female, German, British, American, and Soviet

Oilfield and Construction Workers
Hard hats, jump suits, shovels, picks, axes, transits and surveyors, big hammers and wrenches and jackhammers and toolboxes, wheelbarrows.
Scientists and Archaeologists and Paleontologists and Hunters
Pith helmets, fedora hats, bare headed, male and female, kneeling with brushes, dental picks, working with test tubes and chemical glasses, microscopes, cameras, guns.

1920’s American Roaring 20’s Gangsters, Police & Citizens
Police with revolvers, Thompson submachine guns, shotguns, Browning Automatic Rifles, Colt .45 pistol, Gangsters with Thompsons, sawed off shotguns, various handguns, male and female and citizens with double barrel shotguns, and walking, running.

American Civil War
US Navy Sailors Naval Landing Party

Schneider Gun

Schneider 75mm gun.

Guns like this were sold all over the world.

I only got one from BUM I think, it was in a collection I got.

I decided to paint it up as a US Army, militia gun.

It is not a great model, but it painted up okay.

I used the colors popular for US Army weapons at the end of the 1800's.

It looks a lot like most WWI era guns.

As far as I know, it was never used by the US Army.

However, civilians, and local militas could purchase their own.
 

Prime Mover

I got this steam roller decades ago.

It was one color, soft plastic.

I have had it so long I have no idea how long I have had it, where I got it, or where I got it from.

I had no plans for it, but eventually I decided I would use it for an artillery towing vehicle.

I painted it gray, like 1890s artillery, with red wheels, like artillery, and a black smoke stake, like artillery gun barrels.

Steam powered vehicles were becoming more and more popular because unlike horses they were not afraid of artillery noises, and can operate more hours of the day.

This is actually a steam road roller, and should have a smaller front roller as a tractor.

But this is what I have, so it's what I am going to use.

Gray soldier fits well on the vehicle as the driver.
 

Roco M38A1 Jeeps

I have a lot of these vehicles.  

Like this one, many needed a lot of work.  This vehicle was in production by Roco for a long time and eventually the mold got tired.  The rear chassis got flash on it, the rear frame had flash on it, and the front fenders often had flash on them too.

Used models often are missing the spare tire, gas can, steering wheel, and have a broken windshield.

So I combed my spares boxes and came up with a bunch of parts to restore this Jeep and a few others.