TSSD Marines (1 Viewer)

[Carnahan]

How many sets have been made so far?

 

[Oldallamerican]

How many sets have been made so far?

One set of Marines. If you're not picky you can always buy matching colors and mix them with TSSD's Infantry and Infantry Spt/Hvy Wpns sets.

 

[Carnahan]

That's what I thought, but I saw a mention of "more marines coming" in an old thread, and I thought there may have been an add-on set at some point.

 

[binder001]

Nick has mentioned a DESIRE to more USMC figures at some point, but the tooling and production costs have prevented this so far. He did have an idea to release some limited production add-on figures in resin, but this fell through for several reasons. I had done several of the conversions that were to be considered for new poses.

Nick has also released his GI set and the winter/heavy weapons sets in the same colors as the Marines, plus the Austin Marines are quite close in size.

Gary B.

 

[Carnahan]

Gotcha. Hope Nick can eventually get more out. I'd love to see a few prone guys and a flamethrower in the mix.

 

[Denver]

A flame thrower conversion.
Thanks for the idea.

 

[binder001]

A flame thrower conversion.
Thanks for the idea.

Denver, I have found the flame gun and hoses to be really easy, the royal pain in getting properly-sized tanks that look right (but being a "gun nut" I am picky about the weaponry). The M1A1 flamethrower had three large tanks and the M2-2 type had two large tanks and a smaller one in between. The carrying frame is about like a pack board. I have done several, but, again, the tanks are a pain. The rest is simple conversion.

For prone guys I have used the Conte prone figures with various pose changes, the Airfix prone "GI" and one from CTS (both of these are close enough to work with TSSD, especially if you use Conte/TSSD heads and web equipment.

Another unique USMC item from Iwo Jima and Okinawa was the "stinger", a .30 cal aircraft MG that was modified with the stock of an M1 rifle and the bipod of a BAR. The ground-mounted M1919 series gun fired at a cyclic rate of 600 pds/min, the aircraft version fired about 1000 rds/min and the Marines liked the intense firepower. Only a few dozen were made, but it represents a unique Marine item in the late battles.

Gary B.
Waverly, NE

 

[Denver]

Gary
My plan is to use the flamethrower from the CTS german.
It even has a rolled up sleeve.