Another Look at The Mars Green Berets and Comparison, Andrey Buslov has sent us photos of the Mars Green Berets. Not only photos of the figures but he has also done comparison of the Mars figures with the Toy Soldiers of San Diego Vietnamese Soldiers.
Another Look at The Mars Green Berets and Comparison the Figures
The Mars Green Berets are the latest in their Vietnam War figures Each box contains 15 figures in 8 poses.
On the right you have a green beret advancing with a M16. The center figure is a green beret standing with a heavy weapon. Third figure is green beret standing with hweeavy machine gun. The green beret is wearing a bandana. One thing scupltor seems heavily influence by the Rambo movies.
Fourth figure is a green beret walking with a M16 in a soft hat. Fifth pose is a green beret with M16 waving. He is also in soft hat. Sixth pose is a green beret standing with a automatic weapon. He has a bandolier and is wearing a steel helmet.
Seventh pose is a green beret with a heavy machine gun. He is wearing a bandana and has bandoliers of ammo all over him. The final pose is a green beret advancing with heavy machine gun. He is wearing a steel helmet.
Here is the back of the box to show ou how the Mars Green Berets look painted.
Another Look at The Mars Green Berets and Comparison The Comparsion
Andrey has done two photos showing the Mars Green Beret with TSSD Vietnamese Army Figure.
As you can see the figures fit in well with each other. In real life the North Vietnamese would be shorter.
Another Look at The Mars Green Berets and Comparison My Thoughts
I am not as exicted with these figures as with the other Mars Vietnam War figures. I think it is because some of the figures are more Rambo like. Also the faces look like Russian faces more than American faces. Final there should have been more shooting poses.
That said I will add a set as some point.
You can order the figures from Andrey on Ebay
Here is his Ebay listing www.ebay.com/itm/152503051413
Other dealers will have them as well.
Good idea and pictures compere.
Thanks Andrey…
In my personal view and opinion please…
I see then fine, any one with finger in trigger and close pointing weapon forward or to side (specially semi or full automatic weapon) is firing as not need aim specifically and if in jungle warfare less too. I see 6 of then as that …
The detail is poor so are many around for the price I guess.
Now regarding scale the TSSD Vietnamese looks too tall and thick to be a match unless that these are super giant in steroid special forces from NVA.
Any Vietnamese person is among the smaller and skinny of Asian people by general overall population count versus western and even other Asians ,these should had been taken in consideration by TSSD as well when did their set.
So I guess in any scene they should be in distance to camouflage the issue
my thoughts.
my opinions …
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Looked at the Ebay link listed above, the figures are described as 1/32 scale and 60mm.
Aren’t 60mm figures more like 1/30 scale? I know this confusion has been discussed here before, no need to rehash it I guess.
ooops. My missprint. They are really 54-58mm.
But in my opinion “1/32” scale now means all what not a “1/72”, “28mm”, “1/48”, “3 inch” etc.
Soldiers from 50mm to 65mm.
I guess there’s no formal “law” on this, but I’ve always considered “1/32” to be 54mm and 60mm as simply “60mm”. I generally don’t buy 60mm because they are too big to display with all the rest of my old Marx, Airfix, etc. 54mm.
I think the scupltor was in the Vodka the day he did these,I’ve seen better from Russia but as there isn’t many Green Beret sets out there will probably spring for a box.
I’m due for my turn to be the boring wet blanket. I got some spare time, so here goes.
the figures in order:
1) He’s got a Navy cover on. He’s either a UDT or a Fast Boater.
2) He’s carrying either an AR-10 or a silenced M-16 (never seen that) with what is likely the Starlight scope, an early Night Vision Device.
3) He’s got an M-16 with the M-203 grenade launcher mounted under the barrel.
4) That soft hat is called a Boonie Hat, just FYI.
5) That’s not a tiny M-16, it’s a Car-15 (shorter barrel, telescopic buttstock).
6) that man is apparently carrying either an M-1 Carbine or the M-2 (had a select fire for full auto) and he’s carrying spare belted ammo for the next guy….
7) …who is carrying the M-60 (general purpose MG). The M-2 .50 Cal…now THAT’S a Heavy MG. This is a medium MG.
8) He is also carrying an M-203.
Just as a guide to automatic weapons as a general rule:
Sub Machine Gun – fires a pistol round, magazine fed, fires from an open bolt position.
Light Machine Gun – Usually magazine fed, some can be belt fed. Is light by comparison to a Medium, fires a rifle round or Assault Rifle round (intermediate cartridge) that the weapon is paired with at the squad level. Also fires from open bolt position. Has a limited sustained rate of fire because it is light. Quick change barrel, or relatively quick in that you don’t need an armorer to do it.
Medium MG – Fires a .30 Cal family rifle round, belt fed, open bolt fired, is fired from a tri-pod. Some had been adapted to be bi-pod fed (m1919A6 for example) with limited success.
General Purpose MG – Introduced by Germany in 1934 (the MG-34) and is not just a medium MG. It has a great sustained rate of fire, quick change barrel, belt fed, quick change barrel and can be mounted on a tri-pod, vehicle or fired from a bi-pod. Can adapt to many of the HMG roles.
Heavy MG – it’s HEAVY. Stuff like the M-2 .50 Cal or the Soviet Dshk ‘Dishka’. They have a heavier round than a .30 Cal range rifle, fire from the open bolt, too big to be fired without a tri-pod. Has a lower cyclic rate of fire, good sustained rate of fire and is belt fed.
Automatic Rifle – Has a fixed barrel, is select fire from semi to full auto, fires from a closed bolt position, fires a full sized rifle round. A good example is the BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) which was sadly misused as the squad level automatic weapon for US forces in WWII. It has a poor sustained rate of fire because it has no changeable full sized rifle cartridge.
Assault Rifle – Is select fire, carbine sized (shorter), fires from the closed bolt, uses an intermediate cartridge (bigger than pistol with more cordite behind it, but smaller than a rifle round) A good example is the world’s first Assault Rifle and where we get the term from: the STG-43 or 44 Sturmgewehr (which means ‘Assault Rifle’). The round it fired was from the standard Mauser 7.92mm, necked back to about 60% of it’s original size. The result – a better controlled round for more rapid fire and acquisition, a longer sustained rate of fire, but reduced range on the weapon.
I know some of you knew this and I’m not trying to be a sharp shooter. I’m hoping this will be of use to some collectors. Things got slow at work today.
Now Greg that is a heck of info ,thanks for your expertise Sir..I like the expression comment.LOL!
Greg thanks for the information. Not being into military equipment I appreciate the explanation as I am sure others do.
Agh! Work computer is acting up. Under Auto Rifle, the last sentence left out words:
It has a poor sustained rate of fire because it has no changeable (barrel and fires a) full sized rifle cartridge (from an inadequate 20 round magazine).
Also for figure 8’s whiney complaint line, the last line should read: This is a Medium MG (in weight).
That’s just in case anybody reads the whole thing.
Forgot…in my opinion I like all poses and set in general very jungle action most ,detail poor ,well better than nothing, price is cheap too…
best…