Again we'll lead-off with the box scan,
hint's of a German tank are going to prove misleading when the purchaser opens
the box, but at least this time we have US forces on the cover!
Of course; there was no major combat in the Black Forest in the Second World War - the people who started the bloody conflagration escaped remarkably unscathed, as - indeed - in the case of the Austrians, they had in 1918, after starting that 'show'! Some of the Cities had been bombed, often heavily for years, and there were some limited actions against fanatical Nazis in some towns, but generally Southern Germany and Austria escaped the worst.
Of course; there was no major combat in the Black Forest in the Second World War - the people who started the bloody conflagration escaped remarkably unscathed, as - indeed - in the case of the Austrians, they had in 1918, after starting that 'show'! Some of the Cities had been bombed, often heavily for years, and there were some limited actions against fanatical Nazis in some towns, but generally Southern Germany and Austria escaped the worst.
The complete contents vis-à-vis the figures
and in keeping with the two sets above ('newer post' or click the DFC tag) we get two colours of Matchbox US infantry copies, 15 in one
colour and 16 in another; figures are reasonable for what they are, early
1980's piracies from Hong Kong.
It's seems amazing; but with random
pose-numbers and plastic colour variation, it looks likely that the figures
were hand-sorted/counted into the boxes, each of my three having exactly 31
figures with a 15/16 split as far as main plastic-colour goes.
Two Jeeps, again as per the Battle of Stalingrad set from the same
brands (Dimensions for Children / MTC)
and within the same retail liner, from two sources; one is a common HK design
with star on the bonnet (hood), the other looking a bit 'quatsch'!
Well, it says Battle of the Black Forest and for once the play-mat delivers! Two connected,
twisty paths for your handfuls of figures to rush round, stalking each other, a
bit narrow for the jeeps though!
It's a 1:1 scan for anyone who needs to
print-off a paper replacement for a missing plastic one - the original is
basically printed on plastic carrier bag material; Polyethylene (PE)
film/sheet.
What's clearly a missed opportunity with
these three sets is that despite the similarity of the contents and the fact
that they were sold as a trio in a cling-film wrap with card-tray, they (the
designers, shippers, jobbers) didn't think to make the mats line-up . . . a bit
of tweaking and they could have matched-edges like Lego base-plates!
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But is it Giant?
No - date is way off, source-material for
the piracies is way-off, plastic play-matt is not Giant's style, although some of the comic-stuff with Giant figures did have similar play-mats;
they were paper.
