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The sculpt is pretty similar at its core to the Commander figure, with major differences in the head sculpt and in the legs. There’s no commanding face barking orders here. Instead you have the face of a soldier who’s there to do his job, among thousands of others just like him. The Assistant Gunner’s face, however, looks a bit more “big dumb grunt” than the more hardened soldier they were going for on the other figures. Like the Commander, though, the face is a little “cartoony” and less real than I would have liked. No jhodpurs either. With the Assistant Gunner and the other “grunts”, they have legs for a basic field uniform and boots to match.
A major difference here is that the webgear can be removed (CAREFULLY), giving you a stripped down version of the soldier that you could also have sitting around a German camp on a battlefield. This figure also has rolled up sleeves instead of them being rolled down and covering his arms.
The articulation doesn’t change from what we saw for the commander, so while I don’t have much to add here on that subject, this is not to say I’m unhappy about it. You get the “Joe-Standard” for PoA in these figures.
Head, shoulders, elbows, bend-and-swivel wrists, torso, hips, double-knees, and ankles. Plenty to get him into the poses you want. There IS some restriction in getting him to shoulder his weapon correctly, which seems to be a combination of the wrist not bending far enough down, and the shoulder not having enough room to bend close to the body.
