MiniArt has announced their ‘US Army Drivers’ figure set as in progress, so with luck this set should be available soon.

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What action poses? There aren't that many really. Four boxes of US Marines and maybe half a dozen ETO and not that many of those are in firing positions. At least two boxes are running up a beach! I agree that there is a need for daily routine type poses but most inert figures can be modified to do more or less anything. These look to be nice figures but not something that I'd buyas they're too task specific. They don't really lend themselves to being modified that easily.

I'll use the guy with the air pump to fix those low front tires on the Dragon half-tracks!

What action poses? There aren't that many really. Four boxes of US Marines and maybe half a dozen ETO and not that many of those are in firing positions. At least two boxes are running up a beach! I agree that there is a need for daily routine type poses but most inert figures can be modified to do more or less anything. These look to be nice figures but not something that I'd buyas they're too task specific. They don't really lend themselves to being modified that easily.

Looking good and I like the idea of doing a chow line and/or taking five reading mail or eating out of a mess kit, etc.

These aren't HBT's.....could be modified to replicate with some work but these are tanker/ utility overalls...!
HBT fatigue pants have their own shaped style pockets without the gusset in the middle of the pocket.

Dennis you miss my point. My comment about kinetic poses was in response to your original post. There really aren't that many "in action" sets. By "in action" I mean firing a weapon, running, in cover etc. Like yourself I very rarely build a figure straight from the box. In the Arnhem dio I did recently there were 6 figures out of the box. The other 30 were conversions or had extensive surgery. As you say Verlinden do a lot, however it goes back to the age old scale problem with their figures as they're 54mm not 1/35th so look ridiculous if mixed in with mormal plastic or resin figs in 1/35th. I think one of the problems these days is manufacturers tend to release figure sets to complement their vehicles that they've released thus making them very purpose specific. In some respects that's great news with the Allied tank crews that Miniart brought out but as you say it would be nice to see some sets come out where the figures are literally doing sod all in fairly generic poses so that they can beused for a multitude of purposes. A bloke standing still could be used for queuing for rations, on stag, traffic point, chatting to a mate etc. If that were the case then the possibilities are endless. Some of the best figs I've seen like that was a Preiser set of Germans resting. The options with them was unreal. Trouble is Preiser don't do much and are difficult to get hold of, fantastic for spares as well. I may start a thread on this to see what poses people would like to see.

I'll buy at least one set.