Blood for the Baron!

So the package I received this morning, the one with Z-Force Commander Type 2, also had a bunch of other figures with it. Including a Stake-Out.

Doing what I always do, I checked it against all my other figures, and... well, he's not like the others!

So far we know of 2 variants for Stakeout - Plain Trousers (T1) & Pocketed Trousers (T2). It had been assumed that T1 had a round 'open hand' and that T2 had a flat 'closed' hand (see, for example, the archive).
My chap, has Plain Trousers and a flat 'closed' hand. He is, therefore, new! (a Type 3, no less!)

Now, this seems to be the same as the Commandos. The four Types are shown in Photo 2 - flat hand and open hand in both types of trousers.
In Photo 3 have done a mock up mirroring Photo 2 but showing the Stake-Outs instead - New guy is in the middle. But, can you see what's missing? Another figure... I therefore hypothesise another, fourth, variant, correlating to the Type 2 of the Commandos - He will have Pocketed Trousers and a Flat Hand.

Thus, we now have 4 Types of Stake-Out:
Type 1 - Flat Trousers, Round Open Hand
Type 2 - Pocketed Trousers, Round Open Hand
Type 3 - Flat Trousers, Flat Closed Hand
Type 4 - Pocketed Trousers, Flat Closed Hand

Enjoy!

The tassled emerged about the same time as the tassled later in 84.

But then got the face of along with all that manner of appliqué

History does not record the reason why...

However, in this instance it may be apposite to reassert my theory à la le 3rd-gen sub-dufus sauvage...

Anyway ...

I got a full black 'soft handed' Stakeout as a freebie in a IPC mag. Probably Battle but maybe Eagle.