You are not the only one who thinks that way. In my experience, tamiya WWII german figures are really bad. Except for one or two exceptions, I tend to avoid to buy them, except when planning some odd conversion.

Cheers

Compared to other manufacturers pretty wooden and basic in their animation.

Remember retooling simply means they give the moulds once-over - sharpen the details I guess. It doesn't mean redevelop the figures.

Dave

To be honest I don't think the new figures are that bad. Okay not great and certainly not up to Dragon Gen 2 standards but I can't see a problem with proportions. Poses, well a bit obvious, almost staged, lacking anything like the animation we get with Miniart, Masterbox and Dragon.

What does strike me are the helmets, really look bad in my opinion. Swap out the heads with some of Roger Saunders beauties would solve that.

I brought one of the two figure sets they produce of the Panzer officer and walking German Soldier and they are well done, so they can do it.



and they do this set which is also 1/35.



Alan

I think maybe the helmets are supposed to be the earlier model. The one we know most was introduced a couple of years before the war kicked off but the older version with the bigger brim with amore pronounced flare stayed in use and it would make sense when making a set aimed at a 1940 setting to give them the old lids to help make them look early.

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I think maybe the helmets are supposed to be the earlier model. The one we know most was introduced a couple of years before the war kicked off but the older version with the bigger brim with amore pronounced flare stayed in use and it would make sense when making a set aimed at a 1940 setting to give them the old lids to help make them look early.

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M1935

M1940

M1942

The shape on these three looks the same to me.

SCOTT

Dave

To be honest I don't think the new figures are that bad. Okay not great and certainly not up to Dragon Gen 2 standards but I can't see a problem with proportions. Poses, well a bit obvious, almost staged, lacking anything like the animation we get with Miniart, Masterbox and Dragon.

What does strike me are the helmets, really look bad in my opinion. Swap out the heads with some of Roger Saunders beauties would solve that.

I brought one of the two figure sets they produce of the Panzer officer and walking German Soldier and they are well done, so they can do it.



and they do this set which is also 1/35.



Alan

The earliest one you have there is the M1935 which is the one I'm talking about that came in a few years before the war started, the earlier model is the M1918 and can usually be seen in 1930s rally photos. It's easy to distinguish as the flare at the bottom is much more pronounced and starts further up around the ear.

Considering in the past Tamiya has had no problem fitting their figures with the 40 I can't see why they'd accidentally make these look like the older model so I'm assuming it's deliberate. There's plenty of photos of Whermacht troops still wearing the 16/18 even during the outset of Barbarosa.

The M36 field uniform, featuring a jacket with a green collar and the distinctively-shaped M35 helmet, was used by the German army at the start of WWII. However, the Y-type suspenders had not yet been issued to all units at the time of the French Campaign.