Stahltruppe Update: New Members, New Gear.

As you can see from the photos below, the bad guys of Stahtruppe have grown in number as Erika's Argentine and Paraguayan relatives keep popping out of the woodwork.  Uniforms and equipment continue to be an eclectic mix.  SS camo smocks have become popular with the members, though these are mixed with Heer (army) uniform items. I've recently acquired more helmets; most of the new ones being plastic as i find the metal ones, though nicer in some ways, make all but the Phicen figures kind of top heavy and more prone to tipping over.  So Phicen figures like Schatzie continue to wear metal helmets, the jointed figures are all wearing plastic ones now.  I've been adding things like bread bags and canteens, and when I can get them, cloth MP-40 magazine pouches, though these are hard to get parted out. Schatzie even has a bayonet for her Kar-98K. I've also gotten my hands on a few very nice potato masher grenades which I've passed around. These are all wood and metal and the end caps come off.

The chief weapon used by Stahltruppe is the MP-40 submachine gun, quite a few of which seem to have made their way to South America in suitcases when the Nazi ancestors of current Stahltruppe members fled Germany and war crimes trials to make new lives for themselves in Buenos Aires. The Mausers are mostly for sniping.  Lugers of course, remain THE iconic pistol of the 3rd Reich, despite the appearance of the P38.  

More bad guys still to come.  

Great looking squad.

Reminds me that I have two German officers made by Hasbro from Indiana Jones movies.
Somewhere....

I have too many boxes. I need to do an inventory....

they look like they mean business Gary! excellent work .

I’m really liking the kitbashed new bad guys the Stahltruppes. I’m really liking the look of Alfried Stroessner-Morneo.

YAY on more bad guys still to come. I do love a bad guy myself.

TNshooter wrote:

Great looking squad.

Reminds me that I have two German officers made by Hasbro from Indiana Jones movies.
Somewhere....

I have too many boxes. I need to do an inventory....

Don't we all?

Blondeactionman wrote:

they look like they mean business Gary! excellent work .

Nazis make such perfect villains.

Toxic Robot Fan wrote:

I’m really liking the kitbashed new bad guys the Stahltruppes. I’m really liking the look of Alfried Stroessner-Morneo.

YAY on more bad guys still to come. I do love a bad guy myself.

Yes...we need more bad guys for K-Troop to wantonly slaughter.

I like that line up Gary .

Thanks

Excellent additions to the crew, nicely detailed and equipped, with interesting face sculpts and, unusual in action figures, a variety of body shapes in both the girls and the guys! Nice work!

Schatzie V.S. Del Rio looks ready for anything she might come across during field patrol. Nice canteen and equipment pouch set-up on her belt, and that dagger looks genuinely menacing. You found a helmet and goggles that fit that head sculpt extremely well. The oversize rubber galoshes add an element of whimsical cuteness to her otherwise imposing (admittedly, rather sexy and imposing) presence.

Carlos is an extremely interesting addition! What a cool looking uniform... and it looks like he knows it! Carlos comes across to me in these initial images as being the "egotist" of the bunch, fancying himself quite the charmer. Who knows, perhaps he was a soap opera TV star in the "before times," and he carries that actor swagger with him now. Great equipment... because, c'mon, Luger! I can see this becoming a fun, and funny, character with which to work.

Did Heinz get a new face? I'd have to go back and look at the older images. He's nicely equipped, looking authentically attired. I don't know enough about specific uniforms to know if he's genuinely aouthentically kitted out, but he's certainly plausible enough. Yet, for all his scary German-ness, there's something about him that says Heinz is the "Sergeant Schultz" of Stahltruppe. He's got the look, he's got the gear, he can strike a pose, he can go through the motions, but... why does nothing ever go to plan? Why is everything so easy for that pompous git Carlos but nothing ever seems to work out the same for Heinz?

Alfried Strœsser-Moreno is an interesting character. Again, great field kit. That desert tan helmet work really well for him. Plenty of firepower to be a genuine threat to the enemy. I take it Alfried is one of the Argentinian contingent? My initial impression is that Alfried is the character who would be the most genuinely dangerous. Why? With that mustache and beard and swarthy complexion, he's not exactly a textbook example of Aryan superiority. Thus, Al has a permanent chip on his shoulder. He feels he has something to prove, and the way he proves it is by being stronger and tougher and meaner... and a better shot... than any of the other guys. Alfried, based on first appearances... which, I know, is not the way to judge a person, even a plastic person... is the one to watch out for; and the one to send on a mission when an absolute guarantee of success is required.

Commander von Stroheim - after that "rattlesnake incident" with Kamiko, she takes her desert-appropriate footwear very seriously!

I'm curious as to how the current Stahltruppe contingent fits in to your overall post-apocalyptic world scenario in which, generally speaking, men are a minority. From what we see here, it appears that the male gender equals or outnumbers females at Stahltruppe, while K-Troop, by comparison, is sadly under-manned... which they have, in the past, made very clear. Are we simply seeing a small but not representative sample of Stahltruppe at the moment? Or are the Girls with the Reich Stuff doing something to attract more male membership? Are we to presume that there are many more, currently unseen, Stahltruppe sirens behind the scenes, while these three lucky fellows carry the majority of the X-Y chromosome stock of Team von Stroheim?

Nice group of cannon fodder for K-Troop!

I also like the Alfred Stroessner-Moreno figure. Is that the one based on the actor, one of the tank crew from Fury? Sorry, not sure of his name, but I remember seeing a figure in his image previewed some months back.

Cool figures, looking forward to more of these neo-krauts

And like Alex said, I do love me some bad guys.


edit: how did I miss that Michael/Al Pacino HS? -- nice!!!

Alfried Stroessner-Moreno is has the head sculpt of actor Michael Pena, who is in both "Fury" and "The Martian."

As for Michael Corleone, I really tried very hard to come up with some German-sounding variant of Corleone or something that would imply a "Godfather" connection but couldn't come up with anything, so I just named him after Clauswitz. Having built as many good guys as I'll ever need (actually, at least one more coming when I get a head sculpt for him) I'm now gonna focus entirely on bad guys to serve as cannon fodder for K-Troop to slaughter. As usual, I have all sorts of ideas.....aircrew for zeppelins and fighter planes, zeppelin troopers, sky pirates, wastelanders, and of course, lots of guys with German helmets.

Y'know, I always picture some of Eric von Zipper's gang wearing German army helmets, but in fact, none of them wore German army helmets.


Another example of my failing memory. Time for those Alzheimer's adverts to start showing up in the header bar again.

I think German helmets would have been a bit much for one of those Beach Blanket Bingo films. On another note, I finally found a head sculpt I like for the mercenary pilot figure I've been building

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/324300842616


and I'll shortly order these caps from Banjoman in the UK

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/371292320708?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/373566015463?hash=item56fa4507e7:g:d4IAAOSw39tgj~bR