Robots

A new robot addition to the collection.

While having breakfast at a local Cracker Barrel restaurant, I found this in the gift shop.

It is Red Rocker and Blue Bomber of the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em robots.

It is a product line called Worlds Smallest.  They make miniaturized versions of various toys.  I have their Rubic's Cube in my Batman 66 Jokers lair.

You get a blue and red robot and he works just like the original.

Work the controls on the back of the neck, hit the other one in the head, and his head pops up, signifying he's lost the round.

These levers work perfectly.

One leaver for each arm.  They have a very scary 1950s monster movie robot look.

Eagle Games Troops

I have been working on the Eagle Games figures.

These are 1/72nd scale figures for ACW and Colonial.  Figures are rather generic and a bit thin.

They come with two horse riding poses, a standing firing rifleman, and five cannons, 12 pound Napoleon types.  No horses you have to buy them separate. 

The ACW set also gives you a flag bearer, and the Colonial set gives you a heliograph team of  two men.  I like them because they fit okay with most plastic troops of the era and really help to bulk out a firing line with standing shooting figures.  The cannons are sturdy, one piece gun and carriage and two separate wheels.  I use the wheel for other wagons, as I don't quite need this many cannons.  However, I also have cut up the cannons and used the barrels to make naval carriage guns, or as monuments with cannon on them.  I also have cut the gun off the carriage and flipping the carriage over, used it as a limber for other guns.
 

Army Staff Car

 WWII US staff car.  These should be olive drab in combat zones, but glossy olive for US Army, and glossy gray for US Navy in the United States.  Painted in glossy black they would probably work as a car to transport FDR or President Truman.

https://fidelismodels.com/collections/3d-filament-fighters-models/products/cadillac-series-75-staff-car

 

Cadillac staff car used for high ranking officers in World War Two. They were actually very common in Europe after the Normandy invasion, with olive drab paint jobs and full tactical markings.

 

This is a 3d printed Filament Fighters model sold by Fidelis Models in HO 1/87th scale.

 

I have about 50 Filament Fighters models and generally I like them a lot.  This particular one comes in a front and rear half.  It requires a little bit of sanding to make the roof as smooth as I like but it's not very time consuming.  I have one so far but I am sure I will get more of the staff car. 

SWS Halftrack

Roco SWS halftrack.  When Eadai made an SdKfz 251 I purchased a lot of them as they were 1/76th scale and there were none in HO 1/87 scale.  Eventually, Paul Heiser Models and Trident made the SdKfz 251 in a variety of versions and so I disposed of my Eadai ones.  I kept the forward machine guns, and mounted them on Roco SWS munitions carrier halftracks.  I use them as ersatz personnel carriers or as an armed munitions carrier.  I also added a bit of track from a Fujimi PanzerJager I model on the side of the cab.  You can also see a Roco shovel on the back, and a Jerry can from somewhere on the side.  All those extras really perk up this old model.

Roco Grille, modified with the earlier 88mm gun.  One of these was produced and saw service in Italy.  This version of the 88 was more reliable but the other was more capable.  Crew are Italeri German anti-tank gun crews and an Odemars WWII German Commanders figure.

It's a two minute conversion and gives me a unique vehicle.

And rather good looking I think.  This probably and Airfix 1/76th scale gun and shield and it might look better with a Roco HO scale 88mm but I don't have a spare one.  I think it looks okay.

Here you can see the front of the SWS.  It was not unusual for them to have a spare tire on the front.  I have done that with a few of them, but obviously not on this one.

The little sign designated the command center for the artillery company.  The fire direction center is located there for the whole company, each firing battery also has their own FDC.  It's hard to see but there is also a supply dump there too.

Commanders watch the action from a tall building.  Observing the fall of shot for indirect fire.

Marx tree in the snow.  Guns at the ready.