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Scale 75: Generalmajor and Paintsvaranusk
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2017 - 03:34 AM UTC
Scale 75 has a new German figure, plus a set of colours for ribbons, medals and awards.
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Biggles2
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2017 - 04:06 AM UTC
Head looks a little small! Reminds me of a joke: A man walks into a bar and sees a hot fairy sitting on a bar stool. He asks her, "How about a little head?"...
Bravo1102
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2017 - 04:46 AM UTC
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Head looks a little small! Reminds me of a joke: A man walks into a bar and sees a hot fairy sitting on a bar stool. He asks her, "How about a little head?"...
No, he's just more heroically proportioned. Remember the ideal human is 8 heads tall. The average human is seven heads tall with shorter and taller humans ranging from 6 to 8 1/2 even nine heads tall.
Comic book heroes are usually 8 1/2 which is an exaggeration of the ideal. This guy doesn't have a small head, he has a more ideally proportioned body. A blonde Aryan God.
Though his hat looks small. But as a general it could be custom tailored and he wanted it undersized? For a standard hat the crown is undersized.
Biggles2
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2017 - 06:58 PM UTC
In other words, he's a "pin-head".
jrutman
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Posted: Tuesday, July 04, 2017 - 06:16 PM UTC
The proportions look good to me. My problem with this fig (which is a nice fig) is he looks way too young to be a MG.
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Taeuss
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Posted: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 - 06:44 PM UTC
I agree! A major or something along that line would be more realistic, plus he's too skinny for his rank, I'd expect someone a bit more stout. Not necessarily fat, just stout. Nice uniform and pose though, and I'd guess that the head size thing didn't seem to be something I noticed.
varanusk
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Posted: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 - 10:11 PM UTC
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The proportions look good to me. My problem with this fig (which is a nice fig) is he looks way too young to be a MG.
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Yep at first I thought the same but considering that for example Von Manteuffel got that rank at 43, it is not that far... And from the photos I have seen he seems to be in good shape. But perhaps this we the exception
Taeuss
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Posted: Thursday, July 06, 2017 - 12:46 AM UTC
I always got the impression that von Manteuffel probably led by running beside the lead tanks during an engagement -just kidding! I know what you mean, but most of them were well into their fifties if not sixties by that rank. That's why I would have thought that a skinny major was more believable than a buff General Major.