Monogram Pocket Force Die Cast Warriors

I was doing a bit of tidying up in the workshop, and unearthed some supposedly 1/72 figures that I was saving for a Monogram/Marx article that I had planned out in my head, but never got around to actually write.

I first read about these figures over at Small Scale World, where Hugh does a nice job of explaining their origins.

U.S. 7th Marines Vietnam (8071)

Vietcong Guerillas (8073)

U.S. 1st Infantry WWI (8075)

German Infantry WWII (8077)

Four other sets are listed on the back of the packaging, but I have never seen them being sold anywhere.

The figures are really tall, and pretty much the same as 25mm gaming figures (~1/64). The Viet Cong however, are a head shorter than the other figures which is a nice touch.

Unfortunately for the 1st Infantry set, I ended up with two of the last pose, and am missing the bazooka man. It's funny that I didn't notice for years, but now that its finally come to my attention, my collector's mentality is telling me that I should get another set to complete the full set of poses.

Lockheed D-21 Air Launched Drone

This is a model of the unmanned D-21 drone that comes with the ex-Monogram SR-71A Blackbird (Revell 85-5810). It is built pretty much OOB, except I modified the drone cart by installing two pieces of wire in place of the plastic stubs for attaching the drone, so I wouldn't have to glue the drone in place.





I'll need to take a look at my extra decals to see if I can find serial numbers to mark the drone "520" or "521" to represent drones that undertook the final operational missions of the D-21.

The operational drones were actually launched from B-52's, and had a solid-fuel booster attached to the underside, but I don't think anyone makes a model of the booster in any scale.


I'm also not sure if the red trim was on the operational craft either, so I left my drone all black.