Wehrmacht Officers in the Field from Elastolin 🔘📻🗺️🧭

A beautifully preserved set of Elastolin composition figures from the 1930s, depicting German officers in the field — a radio operator, a map reader, and an observer. Made by Hausser/Elastolin, these hand-painted pieces capture remarkable detail and realism for their time.

Lineol Composition Soldiers – LMG-Gruppe, mit Dreibein, auf Flugzeug schließend 🌩️🌩️🌩️

This finely detailed Lineol set depicts a German machine gun group engaging an aircraft (No. 5/161). The team is equipped with an MG 08 mounted on a tripod and accompanied by spotters and riflemen in action poses. Produced in the 1930s, these hand-painted composition figures capture Lineol’s characteristic realism and dynamic grouping. Despite the passage of time, the original paintwork and facial expressions remain remarkably vivid.

German Armoured Vehicles on the Eastern Front

These photos show beautifully detailed German tinplate windup military toys produced by Tippco and Gama in the 1930s. The scene depicts Tippco armoured cars  (models WH-194 and WH-196) and the Gama tank 65 with Panzer crew composition figures on the Eastern Front.

Tippco Heeresfahrzeug 1 (Hf. 1) – Camouflaged Tinplate Horse-Drawn Military Carriage🐴🐴🐴

The Heeresfahrzeug 1 (Hf. 1) is a fascinating tinplate toy carriage produced by the German firm Tippco in the early 1930s. This detailed model represents a camouflaged military horse-drawn vehicle, reflecting the design and style of interwar German army transport.

Durso Composition Red Army Soldiers ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A small group of composition soldiers made by the Belgian firm Durso in the 1940s–1950s. These 7cm figures represent Red Army infantrymen wearing the distinctive budenovka caps with red stars.

Tippco Horse-Drawn Carriage with Machine Gun 🐴🐴🐴💥💥💥

This rare tinplate toy was produced in the early 1930s by Tippco (Tin Toy Company), a German firm renowned for its windup military models. The carriage, decorated in green and brown lithographed camouflage, is horse-drawn and carries uniformed soldiers with a mounted machine gun. Its design reflects German WWI army MG units, when horse-drawn carriages and mobile machine gun teams were still in use before motorized vehicles became standard.