Britain's Super Deetail Paras (1 Viewer)

[Deetail1971]

Hi there 1st post !

'I'm a collector of Britain's Deetail and have been hunting down the 4 rarer poses of the Deetail Para's with 3 in the bag,I was reading on the web that the more common poses were also made with the more complicated over molding process ,after years of hunting I was starting to believe that this was a myth until last week I got my hands on one.

With everybody looking for the rarer poses are these being overlooked ?


Please see the pics 1 x common Para and one with Green puttees ,rank slides ,buttons on tunic and webbing.

 

[Plastic General]

Obviously you do know there are 8 poses in all, 4 being the very common ones and the other 4 selling for $500 - $1000 each!
I collect DEETAIL also (WWII).
The bummer about this set is that there is no one for them to go up against.
BRITAINS should have done 8 poses of IRA?

Plastic General

 

[The Katzie Kid]

I'm not sure if I'm reading you right but you can find lots of them on Ebay all the time,also as Royal Marines and SAS.CTA also has the "Missing Poses" in 1/72 sets but they won't release them in 54MM(The #*%!&).Also take the Airfix Modern Germans call them Argentinians and start yomping!!.

 

[Deetail1971]

This is the 1st standing firing the SLR figure I have found with the extra features that are normally only found on the hard to find rarer poses ?
I agree the common poses are ten a penny and can be easily found.

Deetail1971

 

[Plastic General]

I'm back again, this time to congratulate you on a very useful observation.
It probably could be categorized as an unofficial "lost pose"

The 1:32 AIRFIX German Paratroopers also have a similar situation where there are 2 different sculpts for the COMMANDER!
One sculpt is taller, with a different shaped base.

Happy hunting.

The Plastic General

 

[Wraith]

Welcome to the forum Deetail,
There was a near mint 7 figure box set, including all 4 of the rare poses.
I asked about it on the off chance that they didn't know what they had (fat chance), price was £600
Good luck with the hunt for the remaining pose.

Cheers
Simon

 

[Deetail1971]

It was a bit like waiting for a bus ,nothing ,then two came along !

You can clearly see the problems with the molding on the second.

Regards

Deetail 1971

 

[Breizh44]

Not mine unfortunatlly...

 

[Deetail1971]

The bases on those look mint !

Working on the theory that the rare poses were issued with the standing firing the SLR and Bazooka then we should find Bazooka firing figures with the extra over molding ?

Any body ever seen one ?

Or am I wrong ?

Regards

Deetail 1971

 

[Plastic General]

Not mine unfortunatlly...
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Your theory is probably right?
Which one are you missing?

Plastic General

 

[Deetail1971]

Kneeling with the SLR.

Regards

Deetail1971

 

[Plastic General]

I'll keep an eye out.

Plastic general

 

[Harry Faversham.]

Use the Paras as U.N.I.T., get some pepperpots and get battlin'...



{sm5}​

 

[Plastic General]

When you think about it now,
when BRITAINS was in trouble it started releasing some of its zany last ditch attempts to find a market,
perhaps they should have done the obvious instead.

The 70's British Paras = WWII British Paratroops

The Kung Fu combo = Afrika Korps Mortar combo

The Space men = more WW II

But I do have a desire to get the Hospital sets and repaint them as a WWII hospital.

Plastic General

 

[Deetail1971]

Totally agree,could have done so much more.

And gave us more to hunt down.

Regards

Deetail 1971

 

[Plastic General]

Nice one, I was eventually going to do the same thing.
Hey Deetail, Email me, lets talk shop?

christianaldo@hotmail.com

Plastic General

 

[Angusprune]

All this has been covered in DEETAIL (AHAH) in PLASTIC WARRIOR magazine and Peter Coles book 'SUSPENDED ANIMATION'

 

[Plastic General]

All this has been covered in DEETAIL (AHAH) in PLASTIC WARRIOR magazine and Peter Coles book 'SUSPENDED ANIMATION'

Can you post an excerpt?

 

[Deetail1971]

Full set on e-bay UK ?

£560

Regards

Deetail1971