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Hi all,
I know I've posted this before, but it seems to have been lost in the crash...a period news film report on the EM-2 rifle a.k.a. the :AFLogo: Assault troops ( :ground: :arctic: ) weapon of choice


Also found this, probably one for hard core 'gun nuts', a video review of the EM-2:


Yeah,I know, kinda 'sad' to admit to watching this sort of thing but I find it interesting to know how the real things ,that my toys are based upon, work.
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Splendid! Somewhere in the void the thread on 'errors' got updated by Mv2 when he was Mv1, description of :ground: or summat, but I'd missed this.

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PS. The level of Bl0pS where one goons around in the chem suit, whilst they call it the Enfield and it's based on the code for the LSW from MW2, what they were trying to get at was that it was the totally rad EM-2 that the OGA was using to take own those pesky Soviet freelancers.

What's important here .. which goes back to the source of a few Palitoy genius issues ... is that Herr Brechin and his genossen were also familiar with this stuff .. like Herr Tshot with youtube ...

f*ck, now I have to find all that Soviet landing craft stuff again, had a beaut pic uploaded but it must be gone now.

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Nice, the similarities to the SA80 series are remarkable. I liked the dudes RAF jumper too, I've got one just like it!
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Someone @ Palitoy must of had access to this weapon @ some point in thier careers it's (the toy) a pretty accurate likeness of the real thing.

Palitoy weren't the only toy company to produce an EM-2 either...Herald/Britains had been making these guys decades before VAM & :AFLogo: hit the toy stores:
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Wow ... great catch there Herr T''shot. Interesting.

Only had Britains' 2 Para and a few WW2 types, none of the intermittent "White Heat of Technology" era. Uncle Harold would have been proud.

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Forgotten weapons also have a nice feature on the EM-1 aswell:
http://www.forgottenweapons.com/rifles/em1/?nggpage=2

The early Britains/Herald Khaki troops certainly date from the 50's & the poses seem inspired by these pictures:
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Later 'waves' in the range feature the more familiar S.L.R as carried by :marine: & :skip: :
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Notice the telescopic sight on the rifle..the collar & tie a nice detail.
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Hi guys,
I found this article about the EM-2 rifle on a toy soldier collectors blog :
http://smallscaleworld.blogspot.co.uk/s ... %20-%20SLR
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