Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 30 Field Accessory's Heavy Weapons Sub-Group: Tripod Mounted 50cal Water Cooled MG

Well good readers, if you see a lag in posts this coming week, it's because I've been fighting a cold and persistent cough the past couple of weeks and I really haven't felt like doing much of anything. I have tried to get as much ready beforehand as possible so maybe it'll all work out in the end.

Anywho, our next trip down Payton memory lane brings us to the heavy weapons group. Okay, well maybe not 'heavy' as in cannons, howitzers, or tanks, but heavy enough if it was your job to haul these around the battlefield. Here's what we'll cover in the next few days:

-Tripod mounted 50cal water-cooled MG

-Tripod mounted 30cal MG

-Tripod mounted recoilless rifle

-Bazooka

They were all molded in soft vinyl plastic and are almost indistinguishable from Marx - who also molded theirs in a soft vinyl plastic. But, to that end I've included Marx/Payton comparison shots.

Ed

Marx - Payton Comparison

If I were some guy selling this stuff on eBay I'd have a helluva time trying to figure out the difference. Look closely and you'll notice the minor differences but the single biggest difference that I notice is the gunsight

Payton

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 29 Field Accessory's Bivouac Group: Pup Tent, Rifle Stack, Garbage Cans

 Here's what I consider to be the overall 'Field Accessory's' Group (all molded in a soft viny plastic):

Bivouac Sub-Group

Pup Tent

Rifle Stack

Garbage Cans

Heavy Weapons Sub-Group.

Tripod Mounted 50cal Water Cooled MG

Tripod Mounted 30cal MG

Tripod Mounted Recoilless Rifle

Bazooka

(NOTE: Marx made these as well in addition to a ton of smaller items, like separately molded pistols, rifles, web belts, grenades, bayonets, shovels, etc. However, Payton did NOT produce all those tiny accessory's and stuck with the seven items shown above.)

Today we'll look at the Bivouac Group.

Ed

Pup Tent

Payton pup tents were molded in a soft plastic and had no logo. They did offer a variety of basic Little Green Army Man colors: shades of olive green, olive drab, etc.

Payton Pup Tent - No Logo

Marx Logo Locations

***CORRECTED POST WITH THE CORRECT PHOTOS***

The underside of the hard plastic Marx tents shown for comparison showing the hallmark . The top photo has the large Marx hallmark, the bottom photo has a smaller one.

Rifle Stack

Payton rifle stacks are molded in soft plastic while Marx rifle stacks are molded in hard plastic

Garbage Cans

Payton

The Payton cans are SP and sit on a platform with no legs and no hallmark

Marx

Marx HP garbage cans shown for comparison

The Marx hallmark is under the base

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 28 45mm GI's Pose 11 (Last)

Rin Tin Tin? Nope, sorry. The original was WWI. I do remember Rinny from "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin" 1950s TV show in which the setting was Fort Apache in the Old West. Nope, this dog is instead a mascot for the modern era GI's and was included in a large boxed set that we'll be covering later, and in that set he's labeled as 'K9'. I'm not at all sure if he showed up in header bag sets.

Ed

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 27 45mm GI's Pose 10

If any figure says 'war weary', it's this one. He is much smaller than his Marx counterpart and he is hunched way forward. His entire visage says, "I'm tired of this crap. I just wanna go home!"

Ed

Payton - Marx Comparison

(L) Marx (R) Payton

Pose 11