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German Locomotive Coaling Man
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Posted: Saturday, April 13, 2013 - 05:58 PM UTC
Bill Cross reviews LZ Models'' German Locomotive Coaling Man.

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Posted: Saturday, April 13, 2013 - 06:47 PM UTC
Good review Bill. The actual figure looks better than the artwork implies. The head is very nice. I agree a bit static looking, but this will be perfect for inside some of the trains as you emntioned.
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Posted: Saturday, April 13, 2013 - 07:48 PM UTC
Why not build the figure to show the pose better? These are pretty simple figures with a few parts, so it shouldn't be too much of a hassle, and would display the figure really well.

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Posted: Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 06:26 AM UTC
The arm nob - shoulder socket idea is great! The head detail is super. A sharp figure.
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Posted: Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 06:47 AM UTC
Nice. Just as I suspected when I read the title, it could be used anywhere from WWII (I'm thinking Berlin rubble clearing, although mainly women did that) to a modern German worker. They really haven't changed much after all these years.
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Posted: Monday, April 15, 2013 - 03:09 AM UTC
Thanks, everyone. Yes, Mario, I agree that the figure's pose COULD be modified by those who feel comfortable doing it, but I am not that artistic and feel that a review should be about what you get out-of-the-box. LZ has done themselves and us a favor by having a generic pose and clothing that would work in a wide variety of settings, not just railroads.

It's true the Trümmerfrauen (literally, "rubble women") who did much of the clearing of the streets of Berlin after the war were a case of "necessity being the mother of invention," but as the men were released from POW camps, they came back to a country that still needed a lot of manual labor, so I could see this figure in a post-war diorama for sure.
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