MPC Vehicles and Boat

MPC collection in the dark.

These are all recast items.

A recast is a toy that has been made recently from old, original molds.  Sometimes the molds have been cleaned up or otherwise modified.  Usually the recast is the first time in years, often decades, since the original mold has last been run.  Colors of plastic are sometime the same as the original, but often are different so that collectors won't be confused as to the age of the recast figures.

The paper flags are older than the models but I can't say how old.

The original MPC weasel had a silver painted wooden dowel.  I used a white plastic tube instead with the recasts since they did not come with a recoilless rifle barrel.

This is the MPC DUWK amphibious truck.

The originals had more accessories, including a canopy.  Often these types of parts were cast from secondary molds and recasts often don't have them available.

The PT boat in the back is also an MPC recast.  I have all these models for over ten years.

As a kid I had one of the PT boats in a beautiful metallic blue with the accessories in some other color, maybe white.  I have a couple old original weasels that I had as a kid and a few from eBay a long time ago.  I never had the DUWK as a kid.

All these vehicles work well with 54mm to 60mm figures.  They have a lot of play value and I like playing with them even now that I am retired.