What a blast from my past.  These, in my younger years, were my fighting war game armies.  I am sure you remember:  Taking these guys off the sprues unpainted, going out to a field or your back yard and building dirt, stick or rock defensive fighting positions, placing the soldiers accordingly, and then stepping away and bombarding them with dirt clods.    If you were really lucky, you got a different colored set and then you got to have your own little battlefield and war going on.  Aww…the simple pleasures of a younger age gone by.

I am assuming that this is another of the ESCI molds that Italeri re-released.  The figures come packaged in an attractive flimsy cardboard box.  The front has an artist rendition of an “in action” conflict and the rear is the painting guide.  The paints are only referred to with Italeri Model Master and Acrylic numbers.  The front of the box also states that these figures are ALZO ZERO WARGAME approved.

Open the box and inside is two sprues of figures and a color fold out explaining what ALZO ZERO WARGAMES are.  Basically, all the old ESCI dioramas are being re-released under the ITALERI name with a set of simple to follow card orders and dice to turn them into a mini battlefield board game.  Sounds pretty neat to me.

The box says you get 50 unpainted figures.  I am not sure how they came up with the 50 but what I got was 46 human figures, two horse figures and three machine guns (consisting of six pieces each).

Why Italeri used the rubbery plastic as opposed to styrene is anybody’s guess.  If they had used normal styrene, the clean up of these figures would have been way easier.  These guys are all heavy in the flash and mold parting seam department.  The two horse figures are the only ones with injector pin marks.

A neat feature is the RTOs (Radio Telephone Operators) are female.  The one bad feature is that you get two horses, what appear to be two horse handlers but no horse riders.