To Yomp or to Tab??

[Plastickitbasher]

Whilst looking for something else in the loft I found these.

I eleive them to be from the Matchbox NATO set and I think I'm right in saying they are 1/76th scale or just plain bleeding small!!!

As my Hummer built seems to have hit a brick wall struggling with it I thought these would make a nice break.

Painted with Vallejo acylics with a weathering of a Mig brown filter just to knock the paint down a lttle.

I did try to make some backpacks for the figures from some Milliput but they didn't look right so left them as they are.

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Enjoy

Regards

David

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[rickoshea52]

I bought a box of these Matchbox figures from a local charity shop recently after cursing myself for giving a box away a few years ago. I think they are pretty good for those 70's inspired NI dioramas. It's definitley tabbing. My dad tabbed across East Falkland with 3 Para in '82 and hated everything to do with the cabbageheads. He was one of 12 Paras to return to the UK aboard Canberra with the battalions equipment and personal effects of the dead. He shared a cabin with a Marine called Pansy. He's 62 now but that fact and having just suffered a stroke didn't stop him from lamping an ex-Marine who he thought was taking the pi$$ out of him in hospital recently!