Steve Weston Toy Soldiers is a British Business. It is both a dealer of toy soldiers from all periods and other manufacturers, as well as being a manufacturer of its own line of 54mm figures. At present, its product line is rather small, as they have only been producing their own figures for a few years and the range is mostly focused on the Wild West, however, they do have one interesting WWII set as you will see below. The other really unique and interesting offering that they have is a 1/32 British WWI Mark IV 'Tadpole' tank and its German counterpart the A7V tank. Those of course, are beyond the scope of this blog, however they do deserve a mention due to the uniqueness factor if you are into WWI, you might want to get some of those.
Steve Weston British Infantry
This is this firm's first WWII set. Overall a decently sculpted set with useful poses for combat scenes. I like how the figures are standing with their weight shifted off-center as the poses look more realistic that way. They also come with a good amount of equipment on them, which shows that they pay attention to detail. Note that some of the men are wearing the Brodie style helmet while others are wearing the Turtle helmet (first used in combat on D-Day). The main thing to criticize is how wide the turtle helmets are. They remind me of the helmets worn by some of the Empire troops in Star Wars. Another slight criticism is that two of the poses -the guys walking with the subMG held at the waist- are very similar. With only 6 poses in the set, they could have easily come up with some other useful pose.
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