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Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 09:32 AM UTC
The latest news coming out of MiniArt is a new figure set that have been labeled special edition, and I must say a real interesting subject.

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Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 09:43 AM UTC
Cue The Village People's "In the Navy." Great kit, though I never know where one would use naval troops.
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Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 10:18 AM UTC
are those the plastic figures painted????

or are those resin masters for the plastic?

I know MiniArt tends to use Tank figures for some of thier poses in past sets.

look great though!
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Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 11:00 AM UTC
You could use them for anything having to do with Stalingrad................Lots of Soviet Naval personnel fought in Stalingrad.
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Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 11:02 AM UTC
By the way, I believe these are old Tank discontinued resin figures now reissued by MA in plastic.
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Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 05:37 PM UTC
These are the old - but excellent - figures from kit #35043. The painted figures at the photos are those old figures, painted by a great modeler, Vladimir Demchenko (http://en.diorama.ru/workshop/reviews/150/)
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Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 10:14 PM UTC
Hi

As has already been mentioned, these are old figures being reissued with the addtion of new moulded weapons etc.

The only connection between the Miniart injection moulded figures and the Tank resin figures are they are created (masters) by the same talented sculptor, hence the very similar look.

Miniart have always shown examples of their figures painted up on their web site and the image here seems to show the one they've always had on their site relating to the old set, again nothing to do with Tank figures.

Alan
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Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 01:55 AM UTC

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though I never know where one would use naval troops.


Thats the great thing with figures ... you dont have to set them anywhere. If you like them, just paint them and present them as MiniArt have done or on very basic groundwork. A simple dock/harbor scene would also be great to put them in a suitable environment ... much like Italeri dock modules.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 02:02 AM UTC
Hmmmmmm

I think these would work very well with the NKL-27 Speedboat that is currently on the way to me from the Ukraine.

@ Frank... That Dock idea is quite a good one... Might have to dive into the water again.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 02:03 AM UTC
Miniart just keeps upping the bar again and again. I may be wrong but I think the Soviets used Naval troops in the Black Sea when they cut off the Germans in the Crimea? Kuban peninsula? Something like that? Plus Leningrad? Siege therof?
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Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 02:11 AM UTC


Yes yes I think they would work very well with the Speedboat.
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