For those of you with good monitors/eye sight (or maybe just imagination) this page of the Shizuoka show report has tiny pictures of the forthcoming US figures and a sprue shot.

http://www.tamiya.com/english/shs05/report/news4.htm

The sprue of weapons/kit looks useful

There's a shot of the completed figures on the HLJ site

http://www.hlj.com/product/TAM32513

Once again they are based on their 1/35 figures, only most of them are more recent issues unlike their German figures.

And a really close look at the weapon sprue shows that it is in fact German.

D'oh!

Where is the forehead-slapping emoticon????

Some of them seem to be German, it's true, but others are definitely American. I wonder what gives?

I like these a lot, BTW, especially for 1/48th scale. I'll definitely be doing a diorama with them.

I wonder if we could induce Tamiya into making that Citroen automobile in 35th scale? Now that would be a fantastic piece for diorama building. Did you see the Rommel Kubelwgon set...how cool !