How you like this..???

[torstenbel]

here is a close up of the crew..they look like NVA soldiers to me
cheers
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Why do they have red shoulder boards?? Probably just artistic license of the people painting them or maybe that was the only paint they had in stock?.. Cheers, Torsten.

[Thälmannpionier]

new NVA set up

the fellers sitting on the Tank are original from a Trabant Kuebel ..they also have red coloured shoulder boards,so it lets assume that this was just the type of painting for those little guys or as you said no other paint in stock
cheers

[torstenbel]

the fellers sitting on the Tank are original from a Trabant Kuebel ..they also have red coloured shoulder boards,so it lets assume that this was just the type of painting for those little guys or as you said no other paint in stock
cheers

must be the way they painted the sitting soldiers as standard then...i just never noticed that before...Cheers, Torsten.

[Soviet]

Hehehe ...

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[Mike G.]

Just responding to the question of plastic vs. wood.

In the 70s, many of the soldiers in Berlin would visit East Berlin close to Christmas time, specifically for the purpose of buying East German toys made from wood.

While most of the stuff I saw in East Germany appeared to be cheap and of poor quality, the Leica Camera was one "Hallmark" and Wooden Toys were another "Hallmark" of East German skill. At least to my recollection. This would have been between 78 and 80.

I saw in American homes every Christmass, around the X-mas Tree, a lot of East German "Wood" construction Toys of every conceivable type.