Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 52 Airplanes: Pt 17 Mini-Fighter Jet (With Wing Tanks) - Olive Green SP

This is exactly the same plane as was posted yesterday, but with wing tanks added. The dimensions are the same as well.

Ed

Payton Bombers with fighter escorts

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 51 Airplanes: Pt 16 Mini-Fighter Jet (No Wing Tanks)

In one of Payton's ads they referred to these jets as 'pursuit planes' - works for me. This one measures 2.25" (5,71cm) L x 2.75" (6,98cm) wingspan x .625" (1,58cm) H. It almost appears as if Payton's designers wanted to add separate wheels for these dinky little planes, but then backed off. You'll notice that instead on one landing gear leg on either wing, there are two. Why? Jets like this didn't have four landing gear legs in real life so I'm guessing Payton started to design it for separate wheels but then just said to heck with it and molded the plane with just the legs and no wheels.

Ed

Here's a Payton mini-jet next to a repo Marx plane for size comparison

 

Payton Products, Inc. Little Green Army Men - Pt 36 Airplanes Pt 1 Overview

I think before we start this next segment of Payton Little Green Army Men, I should point out that everything in this series was geared towards their 45mm Army Men and vehicles. To be sure, they made larger GI's as well which did include a set of small accessories, much like Marx. However, I have nothing from that series of toys.

This next group of posts will cover Payton airplanes which were essentially made in large and small sizes (actually, they made a couple of much larger aircraft that we'll take a peek at further down the line). The larger planes in this series came as 4-engine and 6-engine bombers, with and without separate wheels. The mini-planes had at least four different types of which I only have three to-date.

Ed