NEW PRODUCT: DiD: D80151 WW2 German Afrika Korps Infantry Captain – Wilhem

Brief Introduction
It’s been 9 years since DAK NCO Luca released. Now WWII DAK is finally back. Welcome Wilhelm, the WW2 German Afrika Korps Infantry Captain.

The super realistic head sculpt with a crafty smily face, you could even see the victory from his eyes.

As the German expeditionary force in Africa, Afrika Korps has its own “tropical” features on the outfits due to the hot weather in Africa. Wilhelm wore the German tropical shirt and breeches, with a M40 tunic on top. To protect against sandstorms, Wilhelm was commonly seen wearing motorcyclist waterproof cotton coat, goggles, tropical high boots and field cap.

The captain was rewarded the Italo-German Campaign Medal in Africa. Map, binocular, German compass and pencil were necessary for the infantry captain to make war plans. Also MP40 and P38 were included for him to fight!

Just take Wilhelm start to build you WWII DAK team.

Full Part List
Base:
1 Super realistic headsculpt
2 Body
3 Open palms
4 Palms for holding pistol

Outfits
5 WW2 German Tropical Field Cap
6 WW2 German Tropical Afrika korps M40 tunic
7 WW2 German Tropical pullover shrit
8 German Tropical breeches
9 WW2 German Tropical motorcyclist waterproof cotton coat
10 Sweat Rag Tan
11 WW2 German Tropical Y-straps
12 WW2 German Tropical belt
13 Green tie
14 Grey gloves
15 WW2 German Tropical High boots

Accessories
16 WW2 German Tropical binoculars
17 WW2 German Tropical goggle
18 Map case (genuine leather)
19 P38 holster (genuine leather)
20 MP40 ammo pouch X 2
21 German compass
22 Pencil
23 Map
24 Military watch
25 WW2 German Tropical canteen
26 Ring
27 Cigarette

Weapon
28 MP40 submachine gun
29 P38 pistol

Insignia
30 Breast Eagle
31 WW2 German Afrika korps WH officer collar tab x 1 pair
32 Shoulder board x 3 pairs
33 Afrika korps cuff tile
34 WW2 German Italian Afrika Korps Campaign medal
35 Infantry Assault Badge
36 Iron cross First Class














































































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His face looks oddly familiar and I cant put my finger on it.

It kind of reminds me of Michael Byrne (he played Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crsuade).

Wow! This figure includes a lot of extremely cool accessories and uniform pieces! I wonder if the detail in the production version will look as good as the prototype?

$184 USD plus shipping from Monkey Depot in the U.S.:
https://www.monkeydepot.com/DiD_WWII_German_Afrika_Korps_Infantry_Captain_Wilh_p/di0298.htm

Estimated release date: Q1 2022

DiD does some exceptional work all around. They are one of the best when it comes to military figures all around. I don’t think you have anything to worry about in the long run, davidd, if you were to PO this.

He looks excellent , I wish I was into German soldier figures . I like DiD`s style , I wish they would do some Vietnam based figures , but then I think my wallet would suffer so badly ...

Damn nice release, as always.

Stryker2011 wrote:It kind of reminds me of Michael Byrne (he played Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crsuade).

You beat me to it! Although he's not quite as 'Aryan' as Wilhelm here.  





Oddly, there don't seem to be that many good images of him around from the movie (he's a well-known character actor in the UK).

It’s interesting to note that Michael also played a German officer alongside Harrison Ford in Force 10 From Navarone.

I agree with Stryker and GW, it does look like him -- even before I could figure out why he looked familiar. Excellent set.

It's unmistakably Michael Byrne.

This is Dragon in Dream's own page for Wilhelm:

https://www.did.co/portfolio/ww2-german-afrika-korps-infantry-captain-wilhem/

Their 'Brief Introduction' begins:

It’s been 9 years since DAK NCO Luca released. Now WWII DAK is finally back. Welcome Wilhelm, the WW2 German Afrika Korps Infantry Captain.

And ends promisingly with this:

Just take Wilhelm start to build you WWII DAK team.

If they continue with the Indiana Jones connection, hopefully one of their future DAK figures will have a Wolf Kahler 'Colonel Dietrich' sculpt from Raiders of the Lost Ark:






Of course, there's a huge mismatch between the historical Afrikakorps, which was formed in January 1941, and Dietrich's 1936 special unit of Germans in 1940+ tropical uniforms, with 1938-1940 pistols and machine pistols.

The question is: whether to de-cuff title them; remove the WWII campaign medal; WWII Iron Cross 2nd Class ribbon and Infantry Assault badge to make them more movie accurate?

In the film there was a huge faux pas where all the soldiers had rifle ammo pouches, even when they were armed with machine pistols. Dietrich and Gobler even had mismatched shoulder and collar branch of service collars (Infantry shoulder and Mountain Troop collar).

So the step to make them movie accurate might be just too painful. lol

I think the urge to leave the figures historically accurate will win out. After all, the Indiana Jones films really exist in an alternative timeline anyway!

I think he looks like Guy Stockwell who played Leutnant Max Mohnfeld in the 1967 film “Tobruk.”