Army Men vs Zombies - Another Shelfie

Last October I posted a shelfie as I noticed a Army Men vs Zombies bucket of "soldiers" in a Swedish toy store located at the border not so far from where I live. It was clearly promoted in the shop due to Halloween was coming up. I did not buy a bucket because I think it was a bit too pricey and contained The Corps futuristic Army Men which I literally has buckets of already. Besides I think the zombies looked a bit too chuncky.

As it's often more economical to buy groceries in Sweden than in Norway and we don't actually live that far away from the border, we sometimes do our shopping there. When I was there yesterday I also stopped by a Swedish toy store to have a look as they often sell things there like Norwegian shops don't. -Like army men. And so it was this time as well.

In the shop I found another bucket of 'Army Men vs Zombies' at about half the price as the bucket I saw in October.

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t's still labeled with 'Zombie Hunter' and contains the same futuristic Army Men and cartoonish Zombies as earlier:

This time I had a closer look at the chunky Zombies and it looks like the comes in a lot of different poses:

So, did I buy anyone this time?

The price was almost halved, but so was the content with less than half of the miniatures from the previous set. This time it was only 43 miniatures in the bucket, and it has a black plastic tubing in the midle to make the bucket look full of little figures. So priced at  £ 7,87 or $ 10,52 or € 9,11 this offer was actually worse than for similar figures last year. Didn't buy any then, didn't buy any now.

It would be nice to try out some 'Zombie games' sometime, but I think some really bad Army Men I bought a while ago can be turned into Zombies good enough for such a game.

MOW/PWM-Train Part 2

Earlier this year I converted a LGB hatched gondola into a 'Maintenance of Way' wagon, or Permanent Way Maintenance in British terms, so my Heeresfeldbahn are able to perform emergency repairs on the line, which seems plausible for railways operating under combat conditions where railways are targetet for sabotage actions and aerial bombings etc. It had a lot of tools and sand to carry out repairs and maintenance on The Permanent Way:

What my Permanent Way Department actually lacked was some extra rails and sleepers to replace (battle-) damaged tracks. So I decided to add a load with some extra rails and sleepers to my Permanent Way Department. The sleepers and tracks were sourced from free STL-files on the Internet, 3D-printed and painted:

Instead of permanently load one of my wagons with the sleepers and rails or make a new one for this purpose, I decided to make it as a replaceable load to fit standard sized LGB-wagons. No needs for dedicated wagons for different loads. So a new 'fake' wagon floor was 3D-printed to fit and painted:

Then the 3D-printed  rails and sleepers were fitted to the new floor:

Since I was going to fit this load on a standard sized LGB wagon already in my inventory, I used the opportunity to weather another recent remodeling project which I wasn't quite satisfied with:

Then the load was fitted to the wagon:

Togheter with the hatched gondola with tools and sand, these two wagons will give my military G-scale trains capacity to perform maintenance and emergency repairs on the right of way, and I think their generic approach will make them usable behind both my German Heeresfeldbahn and British WDLR engines.