All four new Germans now visible on TSSD website (1 Viewer)

[Plastic General]

Of course I understand the point about the marketing, but now I feel like calling "Greg?" from TSSD to find out the true story?
Because I could have sworn when they first came out, written on his web sight he called them Waffen SS.
When they arrived I was disappointed that only 3 were wearing smocks and 3 were wearing helmet covers + 1 SS cap.
Since then I noticed the name was adjusted to ELITE Infantry?
No big deal*
BUT......
It would be nice to have a committed WAFFEN SS set one day.
All wearing smocks and helmet covers with short cut boots and late war weapons. 16 poses!

Plastic General

 

[binder001]

Of course I understand the point about the marketing, but now I feel like calling "Greg?" from TSSD to find out the true story?
Because I could have sworn when they first came out, written on his web sight he called them Waffen SS.
When they arrived I was disappointed that only 3 were wearing smocks and 3 were wearing helmet covers + 1 SS cap.
Since then I noticed the name was adjusted to ELITE Infantry? No big deal* BUT...... It would be nice to have a committed WAFFEN SS set one day. All wearing smocks and helmet covers with short cut boots and late war weapons. 16 poses! Plastic General

Perhaps you mean NICK at TSSD? It's funny that the equipment in question - camo smocks, helmet covers, etc actually ended up in almost every German infantry outfit. The "ekite" division got more of it, but rarely was there enough for a whole division to dress alike. So clothes don't make the man an "elite" fighter. In this scale there is very little difference between Heer and SS camo smocks, etc. I agree that it would be nice to see a few variations. Also, just about every plastic "toy" German soldier is in jackboots, where the real German Army had to switch to the low cut shoes with canvas gaiters, not unlike the British wore. One also rarely see the Germans wearing the late-war shortened jacket. The German Army was quite a mish-mash of uniforms in the last 18 months of the war. One Life magazine photo showed GIs gaurding German prisoners in Normandy and the Germans' uniforms run the gamut from olive green to dark grayish green with several different levels of quality apparent in the uniforms.

 

[Plastic General]

I love the way the Germans looked in the last two years of the war!
ITALERI's 1:32 ELITE GERMAN INF addressed this look perfectly, including the short cut, Panzer Jackets!
Out of the 22 poses created in 1:72, only 14 poses were done in 1:32, I wish they would have done them ALL!

Interesting piece of info for you strict TSSD/1:30th guys:

The ITALERI 1:32 PAK40 with crew set (6 fig) was accidentally up-scaled and fits in perfectly with 1:30 TSSD.

Plastic General

 

[Oldallamerican]

Gee folks, we can use them however we want when we buy them, they will be our figures. If you don't like the SS (understandable, but kind of denying history IMHO), then use them as late war German troops wearing whatever they could get hold of (and lucky troops, too as they are pretty well equipped). If you paint then you can paint them up however you want. For crying out loud you can paint them in polka dots if you want. What I see are beautifully sculpted late-war German infantry who can be used for a variety of purposes and I think (not claiming any special info or clairvoyance here) that's what Nick intended. He had to call them something. For crying out loud when I was a kid I used ACW guys in kepis as Alamo Mexicans and my cowboys as Alamo defenders. Marx Germans would make great WW2 Chinese infantry. Buy them and use them for your own purposes and enjoy them or not - I hope to get at least two bags and add them to my other TSSD and Conte late WW2 whatever German infantry.

 

[Plastic General]

You should speak for The UNITED NATIONS!

PG

 

[NY Collector]

Of course I understand the point about the marketing, but now I feel like calling "Greg?" from TSSD to find out the true story?
Because I could have sworn when they first came out, written on his web sight he called them Waffen SS.
When they arrived I was disappointed that only 3 were wearing smocks and 3 were wearing helmet covers + 1 SS cap.
Since then I noticed the name was adjusted to ELITE Infantry?
No big deal*
BUT......
It would be nice to have a committed WAFFEN SS set one day.
All wearing smocks and helmet covers with short cut boots and late war weapons. 16 poses!

Plastic General

IMHO TSSD never called them SS. Conte did a set perhaps you have the two confused ?

 

[Plastic General]

IMHO TSSD never called them SS. Conte did a set perhaps you have the two confused ?

And what of the SS CAVALRY element of this set, was that never mentioned also?
Only Greg knows the answer? (if he will answer it honestly)
I swear to the Gods of Plastic, when TSSD first started hyping that set back in 2004 on the TSSD site
(using the famous photo of a Waffen SS guy from the Battle of the Bulge) the set was called WAFFEN SS.
I was super excited because I wanted to add them to my CONTE SS.
I remember being disappointed because only 3 guys were wearing camo smocks.
NOW, if somehow I'm wrong, then the SS can kick my door down and I'll be forced to give them all YOUR NAMES!

Plastic General

 

[Jay]

Who's Greg? Anyhow, I remember the SS label also, and vowed not to buy them. I'm not actually sure that Conte did SS in plastic, or called them that anyhow. Probably in metal.

 

[Plastic General]

Who's Greg? Anyhow, I remember the SS label also, and vowed not to buy them. I'm not actually sure that Conte did SS in plastic, or called them that anyhow. Probably in metal.

Yes CONTE did do 8 poses of WAFFEN SS in plastic.
If you buy the TSSD SS, you can have them killed by your American figures after they surrender.

Plastic General