A little bit of a surprise coming here in this New WiP from Masterbox Ltd. Previously, we''ve seen some highly-animated figures from the company, I doubt we''ve ever been able to present figures of such a level of animation...


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That is brilliant!

WOW ! I think the word "animated" is quite the understatement ! I've never seen such action poses from an injection kit. It will probably be my next figure kit ! Thank you Master Box !

Excellent, fighting Brits, lol, lol. terrific.

Al

All I can say is WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!

Jeff

This is brilliant indeed. Simply lost for words.. It's a vignettte in a box (to which they pretty much own a patent it seems )

I do take it the Brits and Germans will have some kit with them off course

Other than that: WOW

They're insane, we had miniarts break dancing panzer crew, now we have these guys-ninja desert rats. They look pretty good, but I think the foot of the laying German needs to be pressed more into the stomach of the British soldier, and presumably one would need to display these in some sort of trench setting-the desert rat leaping in the air would have to be pretty physically fit to jump in full kit and kick the German in the chest.

Top marks to masterbox for creativity!

It looks like they hired Twyla Tharp to pose the models, LOL!

They certainly are the most-interesting figure company right now.

their fantastic,you can see the dioramas forming as you look at them.

Great stuff. The british webbing looks a bit off at the rear more like 44 pattern webbing than the proper 37 pattern webbing

WAa-Hoo! this is great plastic! Thankyou,thankyou, thankyou!!!!
Rick

I really like the animated poses of the individual figures, but doubt I´d pose them as shown in the image above. Thats just a bit too animated for my taste. Jumping down from a tank or over obstacles the Brits would look great. The Germans appear to lend themselves well to getting hit with small arms fire. It will be very interesting to see the other sets and see the combined scene.

I agree with Frank. The figures are nicely done but a bit over the top with the intended poses. Imagine a guy running in a charge across the dessert and still having the energy to jump nearly six feet in the air to assault an enemy soldier. I don't think any amount of adrenalin can accomplish that. The figures could be well used in other poses though. ................Al

A question, in most tv documentaries about El Alemein there is the portion that covers the retraining of the Eighth Army after Montgomery takes over. Now usually in the footage are Tommies training in hand to hand combat and these look an awful lot like that footage - except there are Germans here. Is that where they got the ideas for the poses of these figures?

I also wonder if the rifles will have the ability to add a bayonet, hard to picture getting this close without one!

Matt....they may indeed have such films of the training, but imagine running a couple of hundred yards across dessert sand and heat and still being able to fight with the agility of a professional wrestler . Maybe these guys could be modeled in some sort of training scenario, with observers sitting around watching. That would be more like it..........Al

Rather than jumping 'up', they look to me like they are jumping 'down' - perhaps in to a trench or wadi.

They look good, lots of possibilities, but certainly in need of some conversion to get the exactly right.

You guys watch way too much TV To my eyes they are obviously jumping into a German trench or sangar.

While the soldiers of the Eighth Army may not have had the "agility of a professional wrestler" or been able to jump six feet in the air, they did run a couple of hundred yards or more across the desert sand and heat and engage in close quarter fighting with the Afrika Korps and I'd imagine if the guys from the Guinness book of records had been observing they would have seen world records broken in terms of agility or heights jumped You do what you have to do despite what your body or brain is telling you when push comes to shove

They should lose the German with the grenade, maybe put a guy struggling to fit a magazine on an MP40 or trying to get a pistol out of a holster.

I like them but I am dissapointed with the 8th army webbing and hope they correct it before the set goes into production.

OK....OK....Who knows? Maybe they are jumping into a ditch. As for too much TV, welllllll, not much good to watch these days, but saw a great Nick Nolti film called A Farewell to the King. I will probably get these figgies and jump them into a ditch ........Al

I agree about the DAK soldier with the grenade, seems a little out of place for the "scene". Regardless of the minor quirks, I am really looking forward to getting my hands on this set, and am looking forward seeing what the other sets are going to consist of with equal enthusiasm.

The action poses are top notch , however may have been better suited to commando's or rangers training with an instructor standing by hands on hips very very welcome all the same

I don't know why people don't find these poses suitable for the 8th Army- it wasn't all swatting flys and drinking tea they did actually do some fighting

If anyone from MasterBox is rewading this here is an excellent on line resource to 1937 pattern British Webbing- pay particular attention to the buckles on the web belt.
karkeeweb

That doesn't seem like 6 feet. More like 3-4 ft.
BTW, maybe Nate Robinson served in Africa?

Well , Joris....the guys feet are maybe three or four feet off ,but the majority of the body is at or above shoulder height of the other guy. I sometimes think that i enjoy all this back and fourth with silly opinions as much as i do seeing all the great work that gets posted. It's kind of fun so long as nobody gets frazzled.... ... .........Al

you could have a lot of fun posing those figures in a diorama. Need fixed bayonets though...