For most of the war, killing a tank took a gun and a trained crew. The Panzerfaust changed that. Cheap, disposable, and simple enough to use after a few minutes' instruction, this recoilless tube fired a shaped-charge warhead that could punch through the armor of any Allied or Soviet tank — and it put that power in the hands of a single infantryman. A lone grenadier in a foxhole or a doorway could now knock out a tank that once would have driven over him with impunity. The catch was range: a Panzerfaust had to be fired from close, sometimes very close, so the user had to hold his nerve and let the armor come to him.

The figure stands ready with the Panzerfaust, a camouflage Zeltbahn — the versatile shelter-quarter that doubled as poncho, tent, and ground sheet — worn over his field grey, 98k slung across his back. Set him in a tank-ambush diorama with the Panzerknacker, waiting for the U.S. M4A3 Sherman — the same weapon the GIs prized when they found it, the U.S. Infantryman with Panzerfaust.

W. Britain model 25110. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.