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I don't recognize the weapons of the first two figures in the first row. The weapons have pistol grips and the troops webbing appear to be for sub-machine gun magazines. I would assume that the weapons are Thompson sub-machine guns. However, they appear to be missing their magazines and the front barrels don't appear right.
If they aren't Thompsons, then what are they supposed to be. While they could have the magazine on the side, they don't match the barrel of a Sten and Stens, in this time frame (Madagascar) don't have pistol grips or butt stocks like this. I don't believe that Stens were available for the East African campaign.
The pith helmets do appear to be the South African version. The SA version was like the Dutch version and not the British Wolesley
These masters look great! I do hope that final product will be as good as these masters.The additional figure Strelets in helmet is also very promising (early American Soldiers set also have vesry intersting Strelets figure).I do hope this will start new range of Strelets XVI-XVII in helmets...
While I don't "do" British or Empire figures as such, these look very nice and I might be persuaded to buy a couple boxes. They might be good from some African safari, bush wars, lost world scenarios, I think.
They seem nice ...and very useful to be fielded VS Italians in East Africa..in their sector they fought alongside interesting units like K.A.R. and Ethiopians Patriots plus Sudanese ..the uniform is typical of that front..eventually i saw some picts with men wearing bush hats and, in few cases, shorts..above all among gun crews and second line troops..
the only thing tht puzzle me is the dimension of their rifles..it seem quite short and fragile