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ICM: WWI US infantry
varanusk
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Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 08:50 PM UTC
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ICM continues releasing figures of the First World War, now with a set of four US Infantry Soldiers.
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Quebec, Canada
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Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 09:03 PM UTC
This looks like a promising and intersting set, but I hope these are development prototypes, cause the gaiters on the enlisted men look... well... like nothing.
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Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 09:10 PM UTC
Carve it yourself alternative puttees.
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I like the jaunty angles on the helmets. Definitely a close combat, Argonne forest look to them.
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Steve Willoughby
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Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 10:36 PM UTC
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ICM continues releasing figures of the First World War, now with a set of four US Infantry Soldiers.
Read the Full News Story
If you have comments or questions please post them here.
Thanks!
YESSS!!! IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!
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Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 10:37 PM UTC
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Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 10:45 PM UTC
Now this is more like it! All their other WW1 figures whilst welcome releases were pretty uninspiring and didn't lend themselves to varying poses or doing much with them at all. In fact all of them were in pretty much the same poses whatever army! Hopefully they'll update all the other nations into dynamic combat poses as well.
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Posted: Friday, November 11, 2016 - 04:26 AM UTC
Hey Karl, you must of missed the Japan infantry kit by ICM about 3 months ago, with real nice poses like this kit. They must read our comments and started to get smart.
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Posted: Friday, November 11, 2016 - 07:01 AM UTC
I'll have to have a look for those Phil. Be nice if they are actually listening to us for a change. Maybe the penny's dropped that if they produce kits that we want/suggest they'll sell more rather than something where you glance at the box and don't even pick it up, it looks that uninspiring
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Posted: Friday, November 11, 2016 - 08:46 AM UTC
Nice looking figure set. They'll look nice with the Meng FT-17 with the riveted turret. I do agree about the puttees, though.
Jim
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Posted: Friday, November 11, 2016 - 09:31 AM UTC
The figures are hardly a finished product. They don't have shoe laces either. They look like rough sculpts that they added some equipment to as a prototype. None of the rifles had the bolt pieces added to them. They are conceptual roughs, not finished products.
We're like looking at the wood frame of a house and complaining that there aren't any walls.
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Steve Willoughby
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Posted: Friday, November 11, 2016 - 04:59 PM UTC
AGREE- I can already envision a single Figure vignette in a "Sgt.York"-type of a scenario...
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Posted: Friday, November 11, 2016 - 08:28 PM UTC
You mean ICM intentionally cut incomplete moulds to make equally incomplete models? An expensive proposition! They don't look like CAD representations.
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Posted: Friday, November 11, 2016 - 10:47 PM UTC
I know there have been some comments about the puttees (mine included), but didn't enlisted US infantry at this time where canvas gaiters anyway? Or had they changed by 1918?
Jim
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Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2016 - 03:10 AM UTC
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You mean ICM intentionally cut incomplete moulds to make equally incomplete models? An expensive proposition! They don't look like CAD representations.
The figures in the photos may only be "test-shots", but ICM's first set of Doughboys wore the same gaiters/leggings as seen on this new set. Any conjecture or opinions on our part at this point is...
Need I say it? Let's just wait and see what happens...
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Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2016 - 05:56 AM UTC
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You mean ICM intentionally cut incomplete moulds to make equally incomplete models? An expensive proposition! They don't look like CAD representations.
The figures in the photos may only be "test-shots", but ICM's first set of Doughboys wore the same gaiters/leggings as seen on this new set. Any conjecture or opinions on our part at this point is...
Need I say it? Let's just wait and see what happens...
These are the sculpts. Not test shots. There are no join lines and if you look carefully you can see some excess clay from where the plastic parts were jammed on for the pictures.
Since starting to follow figure creation on plasticsoldierreview.com I have gained some familiarity with the medium. I can recognize a sculpt as opposed to a CAD versus a rough mold.
And as a graphic artist I can see a little image manipulation in there too.
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Steve Willoughby
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Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2016 - 06:20 AM UTC
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These are the sculpts. Not test shots. There are no join lines and if you look carefully you can see some excess clay from where the plastic parts were jammed on for the pictures.
Since starting to follow figure creation on plasticsoldierreview.com I have gained some familiarity with the medium. I can recognize a sculpt as opposed to a CAD versus a rough mold.
And as a graphic artist I can see a little image manipulation in there too.
Totaly agree,you can see also the diference in color and texture on the plastic parts add to the sculpt,like hands,helmets,guns and pouches,taked from previus set
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Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2016 - 09:27 AM UTC
The detail really is a bit soft.
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Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2016 - 02:28 PM UTC
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You mean ICM intentionally cut incomplete moulds to make equally incomplete models? An expensive proposition! They don't look like CAD representations.
The figures in the photos may only be "test-shots", but ICM's first set of Doughboys wore the same gaiters/leggings as seen on this new set. Any conjecture or opinions on our part at this point is...
Need I say it? Let's just wait and see what happens...
These are the sculpts. Not test shots. There are no join lines and if you look carefully you can see some excess clay from where the plastic parts were jammed on for the pictures.
Since starting to follow figure creation on plasticsoldierreview.com I have gained some familiarity with the medium. I can recognize a sculpt as opposed to a CAD versus a rough mold.
And as a graphic artist I can see a little image manipulation in there too.
Hi, Steve!
OK, I'll buy that!
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BTW, would you be interested in selling 3 or 4 of your HISTOREX Figures?
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 10:00 PM UTC
What ever it is, it will be finished soon. And the addition of W.W.1 American troops is very welcome to me. I will definitely be P/U a set or most likely 2 for my dio's.
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Posted: Friday, December 02, 2016 - 07:55 AM UTC
When are these being released? The poses are great!
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Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 05:16 AM UTC
So I just received these today and they are great. The figures in the photos are not as detailed so I do think they are test shots.