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Alanger's first releases were all old ICM kits. When ICM's first incarnation went belly up a few years ago, most of the tooling was acquired by Alanger, including all of Alanger's current figures. ICM's figures weren't bad, but not as good as Tristar or Dragon Gen 2 stuff. Alanger has now expanded their product line by acquiring the molds from other defunct Eastern European companies.
Meanwhile, ICM has reorganized as ICM Holding, and they are now releasing new kits.
Ah-HA! Very informative - thanks! Yes, I did acquire some ICM figures& the quality seemed to be pretty good (actually better than the early Dragon figure kits I got, which were so-so & the casting quality was poor). I might check-out some Alanger figures if I can find any locally. Otherwise, I guess the only other company left for modern Russian figures is Zvezda, whose figures I've not had a chance to inspect yet...
Having viewed a lot of picture & video resources of late, I'm reckoning that there's a definite opening for ex-Eastern-Bloc/modern Russian militia-style figures of a more rag-tag or motley appearance. Nobody I've seen seems to have manufactured anything like this...
Tommy.
