Does anyone make 1/35 scale figures of a crouching American tank crew and a crouching or prone American sniper? British, Russian or other Allied army will do. I am planning a diorama of an ambush on a German tank crew.

Oddly I can't think of a single US sniper figure, but there are a TON of Russian and German ones from Dragon, Zvezda, Masterbox (or is it Mini Art?).

You might find some resin tank crew in work positions like crouching. But in plastic there are just two sets... Tamiya's prehistoric set from 1971 and Dragon's nice but giant sized set of largely half figures.

Well I don't think US snipers dressed very differently from standard infantry, so I think your problem is simply getting a correctly scaled sniper rifle which you can then just use with any US grunt in the right posture.

I believe the Tamiya US WWII 1/35 weapon set has sniper rifles.
e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Tamiya-US-Infantry-Weapons-Set/dp/B000WN6P6I

If you want Brit/Commonwealth I think you will find that SOME of their snipers wore denison smocks and maybe scrimmed their helmets a bit more, but still fundamentally wore standard uniforms, so maybe get your self a paratrooper figure for the denison smock and put a standard helmet on him Unless of course you want a paratropper sniper!).
But even if not, I think a normal infantry man in battledress with a hessian covered scrimmed helmet would do for a commonwealth sniper.

You can do a reasonable scrim with putty, you just sort of put it on thickish and string it out.


Not sure where you'd get a No4T (sniper version of no4 rifle) but I don't think they would be too hard to scratch build.

I am also pretty sure that the US weapon set mentioned above has at least one or two loose scopes so you could take one of those and adapt it to a NO$ if you weren't 100% fussy about having the correct Mk32 scope on your No4T.

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Hi,

I can help you out here with a resin 1/35 US Sniper by "Warriors". I tried to contact you on the email shown but it bounces back.

Contact me directly please if interested.

Thank you.
Gary Needham

Thanks for trying to help. I've seen the Warriors 1/35 US sniper and it would work great for the diorama...if I could find US soldiers in the right poses. After some more searching, I think I will substitute the US figures with Russian figures. I have just about found all the figures I will need. The diorama will be in the works for a while. Currently, I am working on another diorama and I'm just in the planning stage for the ambush on the panther. Any suggestions for a title would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.