Hi guys!
I guess this is (very?) old topic but still unanswered to me. My first 1/72 set back in the late 80s was Airfix German Infantry (2nd edition - I also had the same set in 1/32) and I never understood what weapon the SMG-gunner standing up firing from his waist was using. Still don't! What SMG is it supposed to be, if any? Any explanation to why Arifx/the sculptor chose that weapon design?
Back then I wanted to have firing figures with the MP38/MP40 as in the movie "Were Eagles Dare" with Clint Eastwood, so my next German set a few years later was Airfix 1/72 Africa Korps, but it still didn't have the MP38/MP40! Still not sure what that SMG is supposed to be either; the MP41, which was the MP40 with a wooden stock? Or the Italian Beretta M38/42?
Next I bought Airfix German Paratroopers, and voila, the MP38 was in there . What I should have bought in the first place back then was Esci's set German Soldiers! But 1/72 figures were in very short supply were I grew up in Sweden in the 80s/90s, and then we didn't have Internet either...
Cheers!