Description

This Prussian private wears the M1907 engineers’ field tunic, with his right sleeve rolled up ready to throw his second pattern M1913 ‘Kugelhandgranate’. He has leather-reinforced elbows, and black M1915 shoulder straps piped red bearing the red battalion number. Note the M1914 reinforced mountain trousers, puttees and mountain boots which were official issue for ‘establishment’ assault units. He wears grenade sacks made locally from the grey waterproof cotton of the M1914 bread bag; and a new pattern M1916 ‘alert container’ holding his gas mask slung ready for use. He has two M1916 stick grenades on his belt, a M98/05 bayonet, a M1897 ‘long spade’ (note loop to shoulder strap), and a Karabiner 98a rifle.

Sculpted by Nino Pizzichemi, this figure is cast in grey resin in 1/32 scale. Box art is by Alex Long.

Uniform reference; Osprey Publishing Men-at-Arms, The German Army in WW1 (2) 1915-17. Print ISBN: 978 1 84176 566 2

Note that figures in the TW32CP series do not come with rifle sling or any scenic base shown in the box art, tutorials for both will follow on the Tommy’s War blog section of this site.

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Please note that the figures are supplied unpainted and require assembly. This product is not suitable for children under the age of 16.