Mars Toy Soldier Preview Delta Force Somalian Insurgents Figures Andrey from Russia has sent us photos. While the Delta Force figures had been shown until now the other set had not been. Mars likes to do opposing sides, so for they did Somalian Insurgents.
Mars Toy Soldier Preview Delta Force Somalian Insurgents Figures The sets
Each set has eight different figures.
The Delta force 32011 has the following poses
- Standing firing pistol
- Kneeling firing rifle straight ahead
- Standing with auomatic rifle in right hand left hand looks to be holding bicnoculars
- Standing firing rifle into the air
- Kneeling firing rifle up into the air
- Walking with rifle in front pointing down
- standing ready to move the rifle up to fire
- Holding right hand out to to have men wait while slightly crouched as peering around a corner.
The Somalian insurgents 32012 has the following poses
- Standing firing AK47 with his right hand rifle face is completely covered wearing army shirt or jacket Left hand is at his belt
- Shot dropping AK47 rifle
- Standing firing heavy machine gun Face is exposed
- Boy or teenage holding a AK47 rifle at his waist
- Isurgent holding a rocket launcher down getting ready to raise it up.
- Standing firing a AK47 rifle without its stock. Wearing either ammo or sucide belt
- Holding AK47 Rifle over head and firing itat opposing side.
- Advancing with Ak47 rifle pointing down not sure if he is loading
Mars Toy Soldier Preview Delta Force Somalian Insurgents Figures Thoughts
I feel that this set was inspired by the movie Black Hawk Down. The movie was based on a true incident from 1993. I will be curious to the reaction to having a teenage insurgent with a weapon as part of the set. Some of the insurgent’s faces are good while others are bad. Delta Force’s face are uniform with no difference.
I think the Delta Force figures should be popular, and can be used for a variety of scenarios. I’m less sure about the Somali figures – dramatic and interesting as the Black Hawk Down battle was. I suppose it will come down to how many people think they can use the figures for other conflicts in Africa and the Middle East. Personally, I have never been a fan of “shot” guys, especially in small sets. It feels like I am getting one less usable figure for my largely play purposes. I’m ambivalent about the boy figure. It is historically accurate. I guess it comes down to how realistic you want to be gaming or doing dioramas of recent brutal conflicts. For what it is worth, boy figures have shown up in toy soldier sets before – one that comes immediately to mind is the 1990s Processed Plastic pirates. I always thought the figure with a pistol and holding a keg was an adolescent.
Have any idea when these will be ready and will they be painted as shown in picture?
Thanks, Ed Bearnson. 9-22-17.
The figures will be sold unpainted. We have no date when they will be out.
About time a Company started doing Modern Day Insurgent Figures!Now for some Iraqis and Chechens although a Russian Company might not be too keen on Chechens right now.
Great subject matter. Some of the figures could be converted and painted as ISIS figures. As far as the kid with the weapons, it does not bother me. Looking forward to painting these figures.
I think these figure will move in to more young generation collector and wargamers ,the children and teen in figures is very historical considering today many modern armies,most from Africa use massive children troops in their militia .
For first generation collectors thematic has a limited margin i think.
figures could be use x conversion easy as not accurate detailed either and cheap sets.
I do not think Russian will have any issue making any separatist force as they had done terrorist sets and afghans sets as well .There not such political taboo motivation on these makers today as was long before .There was actually more taboo here with Vietnam and thanks to Russian the issues move out the ice with sets now .
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I particularly like the insurgent in the classic “holding rifle over head and firing wildly in general direction of enemy” pose. The boy soldier is a very realistic part of modern 3rd world warfare. The turban wearers could easily fit into any middle-eastern conflict. Some of the others could be used in sub-saharan African combats and even post-apocalyptic scenarios or as modern era mercenaries.
I like the Delta Force as well. I hope Mars will do some “operators” from a private company like Blackwater. I would love to have some modern figures armed with modern weapons and in a mix of civilian and military gear.
Yes that pose should had been done in any vietnam side army soldier set too.That often is way many fire in the jungle .See plenty different photo snd documentary showing it.
My reactions to the Somali teenager are a lot less then ken Burns knife in the back to every Veteran of Vietnam,,,we few ,,the proud,,The “uneducated,,lower class not smart enough to duck the draft and the military”
For guys that like to convert I think that these are very useable sets for modern conflicts and urban warfare.
The Delta Force would be good for Police SWAT/Tactical units as many have worn the DF headgear and without a heavy weapons guy makes them even better.
The Somalis could work out quite good with some head swaps to make inner city ‘gang bangers’, Drug dealers, Zombie hunters, etc.
The sculpting seems a little more toy like than previous offerings from MARS but that could also be down to the painting.
I’m hoping that the ‘kid’ is the figure you only get one of in a set.
For you guys that know about these things what is the weapon on the left handed guy kneeling firing up ?
I’m no expert but it looks like a M-14 with a scope.
M14 w M68 scope reflect side scope…
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M14s are sometimes used for sniping. Good weapon – just introduced at a bad time as far as the US military was concerned. Or something like that…
Thanks all for identifying the weapon.
Is the colour that it is painted a normal colour for the stock ? I’ve only previously seen it in brown wood grain.
In recent years, the military has been taking 14s out of inventory, refurbishing them and often adding synthetic stocks to replace the original wooden stocks. Makes the stock more stable (for sniping) and a little lighter and easier to carry. I believe they’ve been using tan stocks for desert camouflage.
Is the color depicted in film.
They are done limited as that to a choice x some units.But not quite standardized.
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Fantastic! …..
Finally, Black Hawk Down and not least make pretend as ISIS (foot) soldiers …..
Thank you, Mars! …..
Maybe the next release would be ISIS?
The somalian insurgent had been x sale since early october least; i forgot post them here .
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mars-1-32-Somalian-Insurgents-32012-/372110293937?hash=item56a3807bb1:g:N0cAAOSw6NNZ5F5M
and also from CTS and Kent as well.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MARS-SOMALIAN-Insurgents-Toy-Soldiers-Black-Hawk-Down-54MM-15-in-8-poses-/222689953577?hash=item33d95b0729:g:BtQAAOSwRkpZ5Ohw