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Dragon Hong Kong S.D.U figures?
calvin_ng
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Posted: Monday, June 22, 2009 - 04:54 PM UTC
hi guys, i was just wondering how good are the hong kong swat figures. im talkin about the ones from the urban elite series with the mpa5s. thanks guys
calvin ng
bydand
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Posted: Monday, June 22, 2009 - 09:01 PM UTC
Hi Calvin,

I can help a bit with uniforms and such from the 80's as they were based with us while I was PTU and did a couiple of exercises with them. But like most special forces they are massivly secretive. They arn't really police in the same way that the Royal Hong Kong Police wern't really a police force in the western sense. (and they most definatly aren't SWAT, Thats more the role of PTU, Police Tactical Unit and the EU, Emergency unit)

Craig
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Posted: Monday, June 22, 2009 - 09:56 PM UTC

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hi guys, i was just wondering how good are the hong kong swat figures. im talkin about the ones from the urban elite series with the mpa5s. thanks guys
calvin ng



Hi Calvin,

If you mean the quality of the kit, this is of Dragon's early figure kit standard. Not as good as the later line of WW2 German kits, and way off the GEN 2 series. By itself, it is a good kit and is very "buildable" If you want to see the sprue of this kit, let me know. I should still have one set in my stash.

Paul
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Posted: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 01:06 AM UTC
If you have seen the early SAS set then you have seen this set too. It is the same set with new Helmets etc. They also did a six or 8 figure figure set for local distribution which had modifications of a Seal Swimmer and US sniper sets included.
They weren't bad for their day and come out ok (at least the SAS set did). They are not up to the latest standards of DML (when they apply them) but aren't bads overall.
Cheers
Al
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