The story I got from Marcello (the guy that sells these) is that he was working somehow with the company that made the action figs that these were the masters for. They would sculpt them in 1/6 scale, which allowed for greater detail, and then basically pantograph them down to 1/12th scale for the action figs. I think these were for Dusty Trails, which is OOB now. Marcello got to keep the masters as part of the deal, so he casts and sells them, and he does VERY good casting. The Fallujah USMC figure that he has was actually released as an action figure, as was the German MG-42 gunner. This figure, and the US Infantryman D-Day figure, were never released. He also has the 1/6 scale master for the USMC Sgt. Stryker figure that was released, but I haven't seen him list that one for sale. He also does/did a copy of the 1/9 Kirin Kharkov MG-42 gunner thats actually better in some ways than the original. I had the 1/6 scale US infantryman D-day and it was excellent, but I traded it for a hard to find Warriors figure.
