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Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 07:20 AM UTC
Fine Molds have quietly released a 1/35 scale set of WW2 US Marines.



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pjmooney
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Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 07:51 AM UTC
IMHO...really an uninspiring set...

The Marine on the left looks to have a cargo pocket on his trousers and the officer looks more like he has a Jungle Jacket on than WWII Utilities!!!

The poses look stiff and I am hard pressed to see how they would fit into a diorama without radical repositioning.

The antithesis of the GEN 2 figures...

One man's opinion....

S/F

Pat
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Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 10:10 AM UTC

Quoted Text

IMHO...really an uninspiring set...

The Marine on the left looks to have a cargo pocket on his trousers and the officer looks more like he has a Jungle Jacket on than WWII Utilities!!!

The poses look stiff and I am hard pressed to see how they would fit into a diorama without radical repositioning.

The antithesis of the GEN 2 figures...

One man's opinion....

S/F

Pat



I concur - in fact, they're almost as bad as (and very similar to) a set of US Marines that Hasegawa brought out in the early to mid nineties.

The Hasegawa set were also bereft of weapons and field gear - truly horrible.

There are a couple of similar poses in both sets which leads me to wonder if this is really a 'new' set after all.

Disappointing.

acav out
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Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 12:17 AM UTC
hmmmm.....

wierd


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Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 02:11 AM UTC
Don't think this will be sending shockwaves through the figure modelling industry....

In a word, terrible.

Like something from the 70's. Wooden, lacking animation and the fact they don't supply weapons and equipment is downright strange.

i nearly purchased some of this company's German soldiers and tank crew figures off of ebay but they were expensive for 4 figures and from the small image I could see looked lacking in detail.

This confirms my suspicions and I'm glad I left well alone.

Not in the same league as Masterbox, Miniart, Tristar or Dragon.

Alan

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