paras in action!???

Glencoe has (had) an older US Parachute soldier in thier range and I still see them now and then in shops and at swap meets.  The boxtop was one of thier tall /slender boxes and depicted the soldier under the canopy  as a painting, so you cant tell much from the kit. I have never actualy SEEN one of thse built up or reviewed.  So, yes it is avialable but it will be a crap shoot on what you get. 

PatlaborUnit1 wrote:

Glencoe has (had) an older US Parachute soldier in thier range and I still see them now and then in shops and at swap meets.  The boxtop was one of thier tall /slender boxes and depicted the soldier under the canopy  as a painting, so you cant tell much from the kit. I have never actualy SEEN one of thse built up or reviewed.  So, yes it is avialable but it will be a crap shoot on what you get.

I received the Glencoe kit a few years ago as a Christmas gift (Not to be ungrateful) but it should have been left on the shelf. The figure is HORRIBLE!!!! The only pieces I salvaged were the M16/M203 one of the two heads and the PASGT helmet. The rest of the kit I binned. How's that for a review.

As far as figures in "landing" or "decending" poses I do not know of any production variants. However, there are kits in various scales that are in full jump kit available. Verlinden, Hornet, and some of the others to look for on eBay or at shows are New Hope,Series 77, Chota Sahib. Either way it would not be a difficult conversion of any of the standard figures available in either plastic or resin. It only takes a razor saw, a little patience, and some filling of gaps to recreate the desired pose(s). 

Cheers;

Gregory

thanks for the info guys!!

i,ve heard of, but never seen a glenco kit in person , i have some of the hornet, chota sahib & new hope  figs along with a set of Valiant british paras that i saw in a dio by Shepered Paine.

i also met Shep at a Montreal model show,

i asked him to sign my copies of his books which he did, saying he loved my  copies because he saw i must of read them at least a couple of hundred times!!

 a real nice guy 

anyhooo

thanks for any and all the feedback gents!

andrew