MiniArt 1/35 German Soldiers at Work (RAD) Special Edition (35408)

The Reichsarbeitsdienst — the Reich Labour Service — was one of the Nazi state's most distinctive institutions: a compulsory labour organisation that put young German men and women to work on public infrastructure, agricultural projects, and, as the war progressed, on military construction and logistics. RAD men wore their own distinctive uniform — the brown tunic and characteristic labour service cap — and carried the tools of their trade rather than weapons. By the middle years of the war, RAD units were increasingly integrated into the military effort, constructing field fortifications, clearing bomb damage, and providing the unglamorous but essential labour that kept military infrastructure functioning. MiniArt's Special Edition captures RAD figures at work, providing a genuinely unusual subject for diorama builders interested in the wider German war machine beyond the fighting units.

The workers behind the war machine — German RAD figures at work, in 1/35 scale.