Chinese Made WWII German Equipment Toys, as you know there has been an interesting discussion in the comment section. It has been on some German equipment that James Nixon has. Erwin Sell has done an article on the German equipment that was made in China.
Chinese Made WWII German Equipment Toys Review
Sold in the mid-90s approximately. They were made in China and imported sold in blister card sets with only the guns, accessories, building parts, vehicles, and tanks as far I saw.
Two distributors were branded in blister
Shantu and Jaru
Not soldiers included unless the one driver for sidecar motorcycle and half body crew on top tank turret. Most are Original Chinese made, not copies.
Every set was sold for 1.00 or more at the store. I manage to locate a direct port supplier and went to the warehouse where I bought several boxes of 72 counts each and buy all for deal lower price bulk.
Then spend some years selling then off online,eBay and many toy soldier show.
I had investigated about possible copy made from and so far only the motorcycle appears to be base not cloned from the Larami Corp sold in 70s Panzer patrol mini-set with one alike in it
German Tank
The “German “ tank is nice simple done but unfortunately not quite historical as the turret is not from Panzer II
It is made in quite 1/35-1/38 scale and can pass as 1/32 approx or close with CTS non 1/32 scale armor as well.
It is a simple well-done copy of panzer II chassis but the turret is a mixed hybrid with that from a WW2 era 1940s French Panhard 178 armored scout car that saw extensive action and many captured used by Germans later, yet it was never used in any panzer II variation or even a project as far I had researched.
The half-body crew on tank appears to be a late post-WW II- NATO pose (possible french). The figure has crude detail.
They attache a US 50 Cal MG to the turret and there is a real Panzer muffle exhaust attached in the rear left side of chassis that was not part of this model in that area. The chassis represents a Panzer II Ausf.C
German Motorcycle
Motorcycle has not MG sidecar crew but machine gun can be swivel and wheels are not fix, A Marx truck seat pose fit perfect inside sidecar, and Motorcycle is far better than Marx of course. The seat in the back driver has a removable pack to seat another figure.
I have not found Marx poses to use with it yet, So I use Tamiya kits poses with it.
3.7 cm Flak 18/36/37 models made )
BMC is a Flak 18-37 cm and Generic Chinese made in the 90s is a Flack 36/2
Both can be seen in US official ordnance site page copy extracted here
It is also mounted in realistic-historic correct copied and well-done carriage than can be towed or else, it swivels and elevate as well and can be removed from carriage to place in any other vehicle or position fix such bunker.
It is good to note you can swap and mount the BMC AA gun in the Chinese model made carriage as photo show very easy and made 4 different variations by swapping both models barrels, canon parts, and carriage .see photos.
Also, you can place the Chinese made non-BMC on top of BMC bunker easy as connectors are almost the same .BMC and this differ a lot and are based in two different models of the
3.7 cm Flak 18/36/37
It is made in the 1/35-1/32 range scale versus figures and real war images I have seen.
(I mentioned as 21cm before by mistake ) is simple well done with the small issue of weight not balance too well and tendency tip down at the front. I corrected it by adding a very small weigh inside the hollow tubes back section. The artillery piece has a support historical retainer that can be lower and raised in front. By looking at photos of war next to soldiers it was done more in the 1/32 scale versus toy figures.
All equipment /cannons and tanks come with generic star US stickers and or others that are easy to remove in water.
The blister comes with accessories that can be seen in the rest of the photos.
Seeing it all together helps. I’ve probably not looked at most of mine in about 3 years as my son and I were doing a lot of Ancients and ACW. Yes, I got loads of the sand bag emplacements and building corner, too. Only one Nebelwerfer, though. You wouldn’t have any left to sell, would you? I recognize all the figures except the standing firing (in blue and green) and the kneeling firing (an MP-40?) on the back deck of the Pzkw II. What are they? they look like they are 45mm. True?
The only bad thing about the Nebelwerfer is the single trail. Not correct and makes it unstable. If I ended up with a battery’s worth, I’d modify it to have the 2 trails that would fold in.
Greg.
As far i seen the the Nebelwerfer41 is correct historical and the front part is the stabilization system also depicted correct .
The no balance is only issue as toy was not made with counterweight.
The piece is only made in scale with 1/32 or 1/30 figures .See video bellow please .
Open loading compartment and add a bit of sand or else inside it will resolve issue.The loading compartment was made with the extra tube gas release correct also ,once you open it can be see.
See it in WAR images here please
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4gNex1zajo
The figures you referring are exact 52/53 mm max or match with revel German pioneer and dragon can do-scale ,not 45 mm .
I post then here and i still sale some .
made in Japan are swivel/swapped,No glue required. Kaiyodo brand
you can make several poses out 3 original easy ,arms move up and down .
I have one left x sale now only
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4gNex1zajo
I watched the video. It had 2 trails. Either that, or I’m seeing double….of only the gun trails. Anybody else watch it?
At any rate, I’m hoping you’ll be able to part with 4 of them, with any number of trails. I’ll customize them.
Is the grey Combi and green driver painted? Good colors.
Do you mean the motorcycles drivers of these?
Those are the colors coming original but they come matching driver w motorcycle. Those are original colors I barely paint figures in sold colors I do paint only when I can complete full paint all parts
What happened I did not put original driver w sidecar motorcycles, I mix drivers with motorcycles in different colors to show up figure over a motorcycle for easy view.
There 3 main colors.
Grey, green and blue-grey tones.
Same for flak.
Tank and others come in green and two shades or mix camo shades.
Other tanks such Matilda and Panzer III come in tan, green and mix of both too
T34 come green .white and grey w light shade spots.
I need do photo of bend handles in motorcycles so can show how driver attache better or able grasp it.
Apparently as cheap toys they come be bend inside from mold.
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Greg ,yes i was confused -sorry ,i though u mean the front piece that lower from trailer=front stabilizer ,,now i see you you mean the two legs ,yes they made it as one single tube ,as u say easy to fix .I made one by changing using an open boforos generic two legs open part,will show photos soon .
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I’d never seen the stuff in any other colors. The ‘Combis’ (Motorrad Combination – motorcycle with sidecar) would have been great in either the grey or green. I ended up painting the blue ones. Same goes with the Flak, but I left it blue due to its association with the Luftwaffe. Not a real good reason, I suppose. I hope the term ‘Combi’ wasn’t confusing, Erwin. I always just assume you know.
And now that I think of it, that ‘c’ should be a ‘k’ in Kombi. Man, I’m just ‘off’ out here.
Hello Erwin the German soldier in the green plastic is a interesting figure don’t think I know him is it a multipose figure.
Hi James and Greg…
the figures in green and blue are by Kaiyodo brand made in japan ,i sold out almost all i have .here is one set left i got ,made in Japan from same maker that did Ashigaro set post here by me .
I post then here before
https://www.stadsstuff.com/?p=16549
You can see other images here as well
my ebayl set left listing
https://bulksell.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SingleList&sellingMode=ReviseItem&lineId=224022313253