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ICM: Elite Greek InfantryPosted: Monday, May 11, 2015 - 07:58 PM UTC
ICM continue their excellent figure set offerings with a set of Greek Evzones. This is the usual four figures offering from ICM and represents to me an unusual and unexpected set of figures.
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cdharwins
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Posted: Monday, May 11, 2015 - 09:30 PM UTC
Very, very interesting!!!
Chris
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dimkaras
Attica, Greece / Ελλάδα
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Posted: Monday, May 11, 2015 - 10:31 PM UTC
Unbelievable good news. Thank you ICM!
RECON22
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Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 05:09 AM UTC
Great 'in action' poses.....thank you ICM. (helmets should be more of an Italian type shape and not as big as these pictured)
Ironmike
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Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 06:01 AM UTC
Great figures. No pointing Germans. The little pom pom's on the shoes is a nice touch. One more for the collection.
dioman13
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Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 10:16 AM UTC
Fasanating set of figures. Real nice to see other countries soliders coming out. Great move I.C.M. I like the posses and I remember seeing a few pic's with the shoe pom poms on them. Very distinctive part of the early uniform. Will have to get a set of these.
pedersen
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Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 07:45 PM UTC
I would like to see som Finnish, Danish and Norwegian figures
Nikiforos
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Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 09:53 PM UTC
Very interesting set of figures but unfortunately there are some issues at the guns and helmets details.The basic rifle of the Hellenic Army at 1940-41 was the MS 1908 6,5Χ54 mm with inside rotary magazine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannlicher-Sch%C3%B6nauer The basic pistol was the FN Browning M-1910/22:http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_10/22 and the Greek helmets were the M1934/39 type: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_M1934/39_helmet As you can see these details of the figures are inaccurate and they need to be corrected by ICM.
RECON22
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Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 03:41 PM UTC
Kostas, yes the helmets just didn't look right straight away to me.....maybe the Hornet Italian Heads/ Models Victoria Italian helmets will fit the bill if ICM do not correct same.
Nikiforos
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Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 08:18 PM UTC
Jason,the problem is that the Greek M1934 helmet design was based on the Italian M1933 but it was modified and produced in Greece by Greek Industry "EMAGIE" so the Hornet and Model Victoria helmets need to be sculpted to so the defferences.
RECON22
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Posted: Friday, May 15, 2015 - 04:56 PM UTC
Ok Kostas, yes it is certainly a shape of its own.....just been researching it on the net.
Biggles2
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Posted: Friday, May 15, 2015 - 08:07 PM UTC
Oh...I thought they were going to be Ancients. Athenians vs. Spartans, etc. But at least they are actually shooting, etc. Boy! Those pom-poms on their boots must have been a real bee-yotch to keep clean!
Bravo1102
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Posted: Friday, May 15, 2015 - 08:18 PM UTC
These look to be the basic sculpts so a lot can and probably will change with equipment and accessories before they arrive in a box at your LHS. So I wouldn't be too quick to pick apart rifles and helmets yet. Now will there be Italian infantry from the Greco-Italian War as well?
I'd like to see a nice set of Italian Alpini and Bersaglieri in European uniforms.
I'd like to see a nice set of Italian Alpini and Bersaglieri in European uniforms.
Biggles2
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Posted: Saturday, May 16, 2015 - 08:04 PM UTC
Dragon has one Bersaglieri (?) in the Hunting Partisans set. He's advancing, but turn him around and he could very well be retreating!
RECON22
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Posted: Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 11:48 AM UTC
Biggles 2 you always make me laugh.....
Stephen, this hopefully will be the case....as an Armorama staff member was quick to attack some members about another previous ICM topic for 'suggesting' 'correcting' figures as the staff member was quick to tell the members "Stop ladying" and "Manufacturers read these". Well I'll be damned, no Shiite....that is why I do it so the manufacturers do their research and get it right.....
Stephen, this hopefully will be the case....as an Armorama staff member was quick to attack some members about another previous ICM topic for 'suggesting' 'correcting' figures as the staff member was quick to tell the members "Stop ladying" and "Manufacturers read these". Well I'll be damned, no Shiite....that is why I do it so the manufacturers do their research and get it right.....