Durso Belgian Military Police Figures (1950s–60s) 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🪖🪖🪖👮👮‍♀️👮‍♂️

Durso, a Belgian toy company founded in the 1930s, became well-known for its production of composition soldiers during the mid-20th century. The firm created a wide range of civilian and military figures, which were hand-painted and sold mainly on the Belgian and French markets. These 7.5 cm Durso military police figures, produced in the 1950s–60s, depict Belgian MPs with their distinctive red caps and white cross-belts.

Toy soldiers from Latvia 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻

This set of plastic toy soldiers represents the USSR army and was produced by Straume factory (Riga, Latvia) in 70s.It seems that these soldiers were produced with home cast moulds from Schneider (Germany).

Vienna Panzerhalle 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹

The historic building of Object 13 in the Vienna Arsenal (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum) was built in 1936 as a garage for military vehicles. Since 2017, it has served as a display of the history of armoured troops - Panzerhalle (Tank hall), containing more than 30 armoured vehicles, allowing visitors to follow the development of armoured combat and fighting vehicles.

🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Panzerhalle: Composition of Austrian Infantry Company in 80s

The historic building of Object 13 in the Vienna Arsenal (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Panzerhalle) was built in 1936 as a garage for military vehicles. Since 2017, it has served as a display of the history of armoured troops, containing more than 30 armoured vehicles. 

In the 1980s an Austrian Bundesheer infantry company was generally composed of a company headquarters (HQ) with a HQ squad and a supply squad, three infantry platoons of equal composition and a heavy weapons platoon. Usually commanded by a First Lieutenant or Captain, on infantry company had a total strength of 212 soldiers with two motorcycles, 8 light trucks and 13 trucks. The squads and teams directly subordinated to company HQ served for immediate command and control in combat, supplying the soldiers with food and ammunition as well as servicing weapons and vehicles. The company's actual fighting power comes from the three rifle platoons, trained and armed for close combat and equipped with machine guns for high firepower. The combat support platoon fielded two medium mortars Type 82 (81 mm) as well as six light anti-tank weapons 66/79 "Carl Gustav” (84 mm), to deliver supporting or anti-tank defense fire at the point of main effort.

GAZ-67 and PGH-Effelder NVA soldiers

The GAZ-67 and the GAZ-67B (from January 1944) were general-purpose four-wheel drive Soviet military vehicles built by GAZ starting in 1943. By the end of the war, it was the Soviet equivalent of the World War II jeep. PGH Effelder (DDR) composition NVA soldiers from 50s/60s and a modern wooden model of GAZ-67(China).

T34 tank crew from PGH Effelder

These four composition tank soldiers were supplied by PGH Effelder (DDR) to increase the playing value of the T34 produced by Ankerwerken, MSB in 60s. They were apparently only sold together. The photographed model of T34 is a modern wooden DIY toy from China.

1/35 Esci Modern U.S. Paratroopers 🇺🇸🇻🇮🪂🪂🪂🌤️🌤️🌤️

The Modern U.S. Paratroopers No. 5501 set from ESCI (Italy).

Italeri/Esci - Soviet Special Forces 80s

Italeri/ESCI (1/32) Soviet Special Forces plastic set from 80s.

Bunkers and shelters for the NVA soldiers of PGH Effelder

In order to increase the play value of the NVA (DDR Army) composition soldiers of the PGH Effelder, various versions of wooden bunker systems were created by Hubert Hebestreit craft business in Lodersleben/Saxony-Anhalt (DDR). The "Winter" bunker model, which is pictured here, was created in the late 60s to the 80s.The NVA composition soldiers were produced by PGH Effelder in 60s.

NVA soldiers from VEB Lineol-Plastik Dresden (DDR)

The Lineol company was founded in 1904 by Oskar Wiederholz in Brandenburg, and in 1907 it was registered in the commercial register as "Toy factory Wiederholz, Fohrderstraße 10, Brandenburg". In 1914 the company grew from originally 2 to 150 employees. In 1923 the company was incorporated into the "Lineol-Aktien-Gesellschaft Brandenburg/Havel". After the war, in 1948 the Lineol company was expropriated and merged with the also expropriated company Ernst Paul Lehmann getting its new name "VEB Lineol-Patent Brandenburg". In 1956 the company moved to Dresden and produced NVA army composition soldiers under the name "VEB Lineol-Plastik Dresden". The Dresden production of composition soldiers ended in 1960.Then Haufe company from Kamenz took over the Lineol brand and its production equipment and continued to produce Lineol figures until 1962/63.

Leyla Bundeswehr Bundeswehr plastic soldiers

These plastic soldiers were produced by the Leyla company on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Bundeswehr.