K2! wrote:Mlatch221 wrote:The accuracy ninnies aren't going to like them very much because the cargo pockets match the cloth of the rest of the pants.
How can someone call you out for "accuracy" in your own made up universe?
Oh, I'm not worried about what they'd think of my use of them. Just that the folks who care about the intensely nit-picky accuracy of their own figures will probably complain. Really, it could be a good thing for me if the perception of inaccuracy causes people to look elsewhere. Maybe they'll wait for the Soldier Story Battle of the Bulge-era paratrooper to come out and not scour the market for the DiD version.
But funny you should ask that question.... A couple of years ago, I posted some photos of a soldier from one of my fictional nations on a few boards. People at the old 13 Doll and at The Trenches took it at face value. However, a number of folks at OSW were bothered by the fact that I had used *GASP* black and green jungle boots with a USMC-style (MARPAT) woodland camouflage!

Nobody seemed to get that one, it was fictional and two, that I had based the look off several real-world sources, including my local Sheriff's Dept. SWAT team and the Army of the Republic of Georgia.
That was mildly amusing but what's really funny is to go to a scale modeling board and watch the kvetching over the accuracy of models based on nothing more than proposals or design studies.