Still, some very useful stuff.....

I remember some of those figures which are not new products.

The "Childrens of War" looks somewhat useful, if not a little wooden. I think I'll still use these for my Berlin Airlift dio:

Still hoping for the 'Futuristic Russian Tanker'..

Is it just the terrible painting or are the details really grainy on that set?

I wonder what the Soviet tankman is doing in German uniform? For such a fashion, he would have been judged according to the laws of wartime. Sick fantasy.

What's the problem? It's not against article 23 of the Geneva Conventions. If he's not engaged in actual combat while trying to pass himself off as an enemy soldier, it violates no rules of war. In fact, even if he wore it inside the tank while fighting, no harm, no foul really. Wearing a parka inside a tank isn't fooling anyone.

Problem is that no one would take his surrender and he'd be executed as an irregular combatant, Hell, even his own side would shoot him on suspicion alone. The NKVD weren't big on such things and would accuse him of fraternization, at least. And then shoot him.

Soviets had proper winter clothing, so it was not common, but happened (recce unit in Budapest): LINK Also Hungarian leather coats were popular. Adam