South Georgia 1982

[AKULA]

Good to see the project sill growing - nice work on the marines 

[CapnJim]

Great job on those Marines!  They oughta give the Argentines some fits!

[bobhope]

Quick test batch of some Argentine special forces
Very nice relaxing figures to paint
Plan to run with a very generic look, that can stand for 1980’s mercenaries and “bad guys”/heavies in other settings

[Daeothar]

There’s also a Solido diecast Puma which purports to be 1/50 but is apparently much smaller.

Actually, they have both a 1/50 and a 1/100 version, packaged virtually identically.

Very easy to confuse the two. Ask me how I know...

Anyway; anyone in the market for a 1/100 Puma? 

[CapnJim]

Those Argies look good, too.  And it looks like they could indeed be used for generic bad-guy types...

[Cypher226]

The Argies do look the part - and absolutely suitable for 70's - 80's generic henchmen I think.   Probably scale well with the likes of Crooked Dice, I suspect?

[carlos marighela]

They do look good, although you might want to touch up the carry handles on the FALs, they were black plastic. Easy to miss when dry brushing the metal bits.

I've not seen ay photos of the Argentine marines on South Georgia but the famous surrender photo of the equally infamous Alfredo Astiz shows him wearing the marine woodland knock off camo. Astiz was a sailor so p'raps he had more latidude in dress.

I always thought the Solido Puma was 1/80. Heller made a fairly basic (wargamer basic) 1/50 Puma but they go for silly money these days. If anyone has a photo of the Solido one next to 28mm figures I'd be keen to see it.

[Daeothar]

Turns out mine is not Solido, but Verem, although I've always been under the impression those two were somehow linked.

It's 17,8cm long, which is substantially longer than the 15,5cm it should be at 1/100, but when put next to a Team Yankee miniature, it looks perfectly fine to my eye; I've been in them and they're not small helicopters.

I bought this one thinking it was the 1/50 one, to go with a Dutch army project in 28mm, but after receiving it I saw I had fallen to my own wishful thinking

[carlos marighela]

Turns out mine is not Solido, but Verem, although I've always been under the impression those two were somehow linked.

For all practical purposes they are the same. Verem was a Solido owned brand, which if Wiki is to be believed, utilised the older Solido dies. I have Verem and Solido models that are near identical, save for the name. It probably explains why some of the  Verem models were a bit cheaper than the Solido counterparts.