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My next Orion sets
ORI72058 German WW2 Panzer Soldiers 1939-1940
ORI72059 Viet Cong
ORI72060 North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
ORI72061 British Tank Crew (Winter Dress). WW2
Interesting. If it is to the same standard as the best of the other 1/72 infantry sets, then this should be good. PSC have just launched a 20mm Ultracast range (a Waffen SS platoon), so it may be a release under the Ultracast label.
With four weeks to Christmas and their Black Friday sale now on, PSC will need to move pretty fast to get this new set out pre-Christmas.
Will be interesting to see what Ultracast 20mm figures look like. PSC make a distinction on their website between their new 20mm stuff and the existing 1/72 figures. It would be strange if the two ranges were not compatible with each other, but let's see.
Most of the comments on the PSC website about the German SS set were not good Most people thought the figures looked child like & the price is £20 for around forty figures.
I would rather PSC concentrated on AFV's its what they do best in my opinion.:nerd_face:
Most of the comments on the PSC website about the German SS set were not good Most people thought the figures looked child like & the price is £20 for around forty figures.
I would rather PSC concentrated on AFV's its what they do best in my opinion.:nerd_face:
Yes, having just had a peep at the PSR preview photos of the Waffen SS set it is immediately obvious that (a) they are suffering from the 'big head/helmet' syndrome that plagues many of the 20mm metal manufacturer sculpts; and (b) they are 'true' 20mm, but short for 1/72. At 22.5mm these do not measure up as elite, tall SS Panzergrenadiers, more like Hitler Youth. These new figures are at least compatible with the Valiant 20mm Germans, but I for one do not like this style of sculpting, and I won't be buying this PSR set.
If the 8th Army set is sculpted with a view to better anatomy, the height issue may not in fact be an 'issue' however. British troops were often on the 'short side' and if the sculpts are good then these might well mingle in with the existing 8th Army sets. For my part, they will need to be compatible with the excellent Airfix set (well, with the proviso that that set would have been excellent had Airfix armed the sten gunner with a Lee Enfield; and provided a good prone Bren gunner and loader.....).
The big head thing is a curse,it is done because many like it ???? , but just looked on PSR 22.5 is 1mm below perfect, but not a deal breaker, the fighting poses are not dynamic , the moving poses look ok , what has me worried is if the 8th army is hot on its heels there can be no time to learn and rectify these issues with that set, I still await the psr review.
i made a comment on a forum about the eighth army figs the waffen ss psc designer was doing for psc months ago. Basically he had the wrong rifles hopefully thats been rectified.Agee with the comments on the human head problem with metal figures designers!