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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Poiter50 on 18 August 2023, 02:40:20 PM
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Are there any plastic figs with service caps (fore & aft style)? I want to do some RAF types for Crete in 1941, paint would solve most of this but caps would finish them off nicely.
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Not plastic, but Warlord does a sprue of forage-capped heads in metal.
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Ta, JF.
Not plastic, but Warlord does a sprue of forage-capped heads in metal.
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Known as the Chip bag hat in my time!
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Known as the Chip bag hat in my time!
Indeed! :)
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Known as something quite different and NSFW where I'm from.
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Yeah, we had a very colorful (and unrepeatable in mixed company) name for them when I was in the US Army....
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Known as something quite different and NSFW where I'm from.
Yes but the cap was deliberate ploy to draw attention away from the fact that they were wearing suede desert boots and short shorts.* Rather the appellation be directed at the headwear than the man wearing it. Viewed in plan form the local name for the cap is obvious. ;)
By the by I have found that many 1/48 figures will work with 28mm, especially if some judicious trimming is made below the knee. Heads usually transfer seamlessly. In this vein I offer you:
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/airfix-a04702-wwii-raf-ground-crew--943248
Plenty of spare heads and readily available in local model shops.
Also:
https://www.modelsandhobbies4u.com.au/catalogue/product/raf-pilots-and-ground-personnel-1939-1945
*Actually witnessed, RAAF Tindal, 1989.
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Mystery contents but coming up and may be better in terms of theatre specifics.
https://www.metrohobbies.com.au/products/icm-48080-1-48-raf-pilots-in-tropical-uniforms-1941-1945
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Seems that Revell do a licensed version. Bit expensive for 3 C Caps. Might look for 3D printed.
Mystery contents but coming up and may be better in terms of theatre specifics.
https://www.metrohobbies.com.au/products/icm-48080-1-48-raf-pilots-in-tropical-uniforms-1941-1945