More Automatons

The concept here is that each Automaton is assigned to a human soldier who acts as his PAeL, pronounced PAL.

A painted example. They wear the US Army helmet as a method of identification.

Many of them also wear a shirt as well as an American insignia on his chest.

The decal on the chest is the official PAeL Automaton insignia, a gear with thirteen teeth in red, inside a five pointed star, inside a white disk. Not unlike the early WWII US Army Air Corps Insignia.

Wearing a GI shirt and helmet the Automatons are almost indistinguishable from human troops.

PAeL Automaton

PAeL Automatons with the Italeri WWII US Army troops.

These are pre-production PAeL Automatons.

It is a test run to see how well the molds work, how well the figures fill out the mold.

This group are armed with automatic weapons.

The US Army actually trained soldiers to use the .30 caliber machine gun in a manner similar to that shown by the Automaton soldier.

New Metal in 1/72nd Scale

With the heritage of Metropolis, I, Robot, and GI Robot along with many others, I introduce the first of my PAeL Automatons!

This is a custom 1/72nd scale metal figure that my wife gave me for my 55th birthday.

My daughter designed this original artwork and then I sent it out to be sculpted and cast.

There will be 26 poses and they are designed to be used alongside the Italeri 1/72nd scale soft plastic figures. As you can see, each of these figures is wearing a US Army helmet and armed with either a Thompson Submachine Gun or a .30 caliber light machine gun as seen on this last figure.

Tanks To Vic

Master Modeller Vic Morris completed this Pegasus 1/72nd scale KV-Is.

This plastic kit is not very difficult and he has added a few bits of extra gear & kit.

This is a very nice model, I like the track droop.

Another Pegasus Project by Mr. Morris. This time an E-25 ultra late war tank that he is working on, looks like a great start! Thanks Vic for this wonderful set of photos.