Forces of Valor (FOV) / Unimax Deep Dive: Pt 43 Set #83010 (2010) German 352nd Infantry Division (Normandy 1944) Pt 1 Packaging and Contents

Here's another set I bought new this year. This showed up in one of my searches and:

a) it wasn't a set I already had and, 

b) it had a machine gunner with separate large machine gun on tripod. 

Fortunately it came up for sale and I scarfed it up ASAP. I don't know if there was a corresponding set numbered 93010.

Ed

1st Series 'dark' box

Not many 'smalls' in this set

Contents

-Four figures

-MG42 machine on large tripod

-Large ruined wall

-Log obstacle

-Curved sandbag pile

-Barricade

-Dark gray oil barrel

-1 small can

-3 tan ammo cans

-1 German helmet

4x tan ammo cans

I wrote about this in one of the posts covering the 'smalls'. This is a very small 'can' and still figure out if it was meant to be a trash can or a small transformer meant for a power line or perhaps telephone pole.

Marx #4672 'The Flintstones' Playset (1961) - Pt 14: Figures: Gas Station Attendant / Mr. Boulder / Neighbor Watering Lawn

Another multi-use figure. Playset Magazine reports that this figure might be based on the character of Mr. Boulder who appears in S1E4 "No Help Wanted". The Marx figure does in fact look like Mr. Boulder but, as he's holding a hose, he can either be pumping gas at the filling station, or watering his lawn. 

Ed

Mr. Boulder S1E4

Gas Station Attendant

Gas Station Attendant / Mr. Boulder / Neighbor Watering Lawn

Forces of Valor (FOV) / Unimax Deep Dive: Pt 42 Set #83009 (2010) U.S. 1st Infantry Division (Normandy 1944) Pt 5 U.S. Pose 15

This guy gave me a bit of grief in a couple of different ways. First of all, he and the machine gun simply do not fit on the base provided - both the figure and gun do not fit on the base at the same time. If you pose him on the base sideways, the gun sticks up in the air like it's floating! Okay, fine, leave him off the base.

Next: that goofy machine gun he's firing was a bear to identify and in the end what I came up with was a 'best guess'. It's not your standard 30mm MG on tripod, nor is it a BAR. After spending way too much time on the Internet, I came up with it possibly being a Johnston D-1918 MG. This pose was never repeated in any other FOV set so it makes me wonder what they were using as a reference source and if someone at FOV noticed the gaffe and pulled the plug on this guy. That would have been a shame - they could have just substituted a different gun and continued using the figure.

Ed

U.S. Pose 15

Johnston D-1918 MG

Looking at this graphic culled from the Internet, the third gun from the top stood out as a likely candidate. I'm not saying this is it, but it's close.

Not one of FOV's best efforts