Dragon is releasing a new set of figures next August, using new technologies and adding DS uniforms and boots as bonus.

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This would concern me, as I have seen their DS track and the detail is not all that great. Guess we will have to wait and see.

The DS uniforms look to be the ones they used to include in their kits back in the earlier yrs,251's etc.

Only three figures...a new trend?

The sculpting looks good on these guys. I am not a fan of the DS stuff though. I don't really see the need for flexible uniform stuff? And it is very hard to glue if you try to pose it.
What I find great about these guys is the anatomy. It looks good,in other words,they look thin with normal length legs,etc and the shoulders are also normal looking. For a time there the Dragon figs all had Schwarzenegger shoulders and were unnaturally beefcake looking.
But that's just me.
J

Hmmm. No more Schwarzenegger looking figures made by computers only and no human sculptor involved. Sounds like a familiar movie tagline.
And what's up with skimping out on the 4th figure? Boo.

The 4th figure is invisible man german secret weapon. Yes he is also naked but his cloths are included in the kit. Just joke. Sorry.

I agree about shape of the anatomy.

Interesting to see a German MG soldier with a captured Bren, considering how many British soldiers did the opposite from what I've heard.

these german soldiers are part of the german invasion force the coming to russia in june,21st.,1941.

I don't think so.....

http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.asp?smallarms_id=210

It's a Czech MG that the Brent was based on. Dragon has included it in other sets. See if Dragon really cared about value, there would be two of the figure sprues in the box not a bunch of DS uniforms

This what happens when everybody complains about the "pointing figure" in every dragon figure set, they just omit it and only leave you three. 😉

Now that is funny!

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Joe

They may be using the latest technology but to me the wrinkles of the clothes and the boots look too similar between the different figures.

We might start seeing them using the copy & paste too often.

When I saw this I thought it would be an in combat set, maybe even Soviet infantry. It's cool news but Dragon needs to do something a bit more animated

CAD may be new technology for Dragon's 1/35th scale figures but most certainly not in the industry. It's been the standard for a good lot of companies in the toy and figure industry for years now. Tamiya on the other hand has been making use of 3D-scanners for its figures in recent memory.

While they look quite nicely done I can imagine that this set will be quite expensive due to the DS clothing. The figures are far too close to the Advance To Kharkov set and the 28th Infantry set to be of any new use. It would appear that Dragon has completely run out of ideas and now think that the DS clothing is going to be a big draw. What would make a lot more sense to me would be DS clothing as an accessory set, rather like their weapon sets or the German Equipment set that was out in the late 80's and to actually manufacture some figures in dynamic positions ie fighting! I'm actually working on an early war "standing around doing sweet f.a" German dio and am having trouble working out which figures to use there are that many! I currently have six boxes sat next to me with about another five in the cupboard to choose from. We don't need anymore standing about Germans!

The fourth guy is wearing experimental "invisible" camo clothing. Obviously works very well! Decades ahead of US experiments.

For those who didn't actually check the link, the usual fourth figure is deleted in lieu of accessory pieces of clothing in DS. Dragon has included DS clothing previously. All the figures are moulded in the usual styrene.