What I'd like to see ...

[Sunray]

Thanks Stewart.Worth 2000 words!   

[Techno]

If you guys can find me shots/diagrams of the kit on the backs of all the models......THAT would be incredibly useful for each of the ranges. 

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

Australians 1951


US, 1951


http://olive-drab.com/od_soldiers_clothing_1950s.php

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello

I am amazed that nobody has mentioned pluderhosen!!!!

Everything looks better in pluderhosen . Also some early P&S  campfollowers could be handy.





I imagine it would be easy to upgrade some of the existing figures, I might have a go myself,even though it's quite a few years since I pushed putty in anger .

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Techno]

Ta, Nobby.

That's the sort of thing. 

Cheers - Phil

[Orcs]

I've got mixed opinions on this one, as it's nice for customers to have them available for attempting their own sculpts, but at the same time you never know if a rival company is going to get hold of some and save themselves some money by using them as dollies for their own ranges.  It's quite difficult to prove once a sculpt has been built on the armature.  We might look at it, but sell them at a higher price than regular figures, to put off anyone buying them for commercial use.

Pack them in small pack sizes say 5 or 10 dollies . Then sell these either to known customers or only as a single pack sale  with orders exceeding say £30. Regular customers will have to wait until they have an order big enough but can get them.  Rival companies are hardly going to want to spend £30 to get the 5 dollies they actually want

[fsn]

Like your thinking Mr Orcs. 

[Sunray]

Australians 1951


US, 1951


http://olive-drab.com/od_soldiers_clothing_1950s.php

Useful source material Stewart.  The Aussies are in the pre-WW2 37 web.  There was simply tons of it about the British supplied nations.
It also supplemented the 44 pattern.

The US soldiers are still very much WW2 in dress and kit.

[fsn]

The thing I found interesting about the Aussie picture is the size of the bedroll strapped on the bottom of the pack.

The photos I have seen tend to be 37 or 44 pattern webbing for the Commonwealth.

What I have read is that at one point the Commandos wore US kit bar the green beret. 

[Fenton]

It might be cold weather gear wrapped up inside it

[d_Guy]

Also some early P&S  campfollowers could be handy.

I am in favor of anything that adds more civilians (including women and children) to the general period 1550 to 1700 in Europe.
Woodland Indians in the same period in NA would be good too. Oh...and Aztecs (or Mayans..or both!) 

[Sunray]

It might be cold weather gear wrapped up inside it

Looks like the M1949 Sleeping Bag (Mountain) -the Yanks had a surplus which they shared with all UN allies.  It was a good piece of kit (Still around in the  1970s) Some bright spark invented a stuff sack in the 1960s that reduced the bulk. You could get it unto the top of a Bergus ROC.