Marx Training Center Figures - Putting Them To Use: Refuel

This will be my last "Putting Them To use" post for a while - need to take more photos! The inspiration for this shot is a photo I took of a 35th Supply Sq POL troop refueling a Huey on the George AFB, CA flightline back on 6 Mar, 1980. Using toys I had readily available, I recreated the scene and think it turned out well. You'll notice the Marx USAF figure is wearing a cap. That was probably standard fare when Marx made these figures back in the mid-'50s, but modern flightline procedures prohibit the wearing of headgear like this because they constitute a FOD (Foreign Object Damage) risk.

Ed

Marx Training Center Figures - Putting Them To Use: Goin' To Work

 

Marx Training Center Figures - Putting Them To Use: Wrench Turner

 

Marx Training Center Figures - Putting Them To Use: Running the Checklist

It's been a bit dodgy finding airplanes that look suitable or okay with these figures. I paired the Marx figure with a Processed Plastics F-16 and he looks good enough with it.

Ed

Marx 45mm Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines: Putting Them To Use On The Flightline

 Okay, honestly, this guy really needs to be up on a tower, signaling incoming aircraft, except...

...I don't have a tower! This'll do for now until I figure something out.

Ed

Marx 45mm Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines: Putting Them To Use On The Flightline

As small as Marx's 50mm airman figures are, they still dwarf the planes that were included in the playsets. I tried to pair this guy with one of my larger fighter aircraft, a KO in a Diamond (Yoshiya Kobe Yoko Ltd.) F-101 Voodoo 

Marx 50mm USAF Figures - Cave Finds

This year has been about discovery - re-discovering treasures out in The Cave that is - and bringing them to the light of day here on the blog. Just yesterday I found a bunch of Marx 50mm USAF figures and accessories. In August I posted the complete set of 50mm USAF figures and at the time thought I had gathered them all in one place, until...

...I came across a box full of figures and accessories!

Ed

This inventory shot taken back in June shows all the USAF figures I thought I had

Here's what I ended up with after The Cave find!

From 27 pieces to 104!

The top row in the photo below shows original figures in various shades of metallic blue that Marx made.

The second and third rows reflect colors I wasn't aware of. Are they original Marx? Repops?