Jeff Shiu reworked one of his earlier figures, based on the famous wartime photo of a German Machine Gunner from Ardennes, 1944.
I remember that picture.
Waffen SS. There are several images with the same soldier as his platoon passes through an allied convoy that was ambushed on their way to Bastogne.
I’m going out on a limb to guess this soldier was part of 1st SS Panzer Corps LSSAH.
Amazing sculpture work looks spot on.
Stills from a news / propaganda reel, the other figures in the scene are equally good. If only there was an M 8 in 1/16…
Beautiful. More figures need to have cigarettes in their mouth…
The pictures are from the Ambush at Poteau where elements of Kampgruppe Hansen, with support from Kampfgruppe Piper, ambushed elements from the American 14th Cavalry Regiment.
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=179572&hilit=Poteau
Interesting read on trying to identify the German soldier in the picture.
Thank you for the link because looking at the pictures, I wondered if his fate was known.
