Alpine (1/35) US Tank Crew Figures

[T50]

35190 US Tank Crew #1
Sculpture by Taesung Harmms / Boxart by Man-Jin Kim

35191 US Tank Crew #2
Sculpture by Taesung Harmms / Boxart by Man-Jin Kim

35192 US Tank Crew Set
Sculpture by Taesung Harmms / Boxart by Man-Jin Kim

For more info and pics, please visit:
http://www.alpineminiatures.com

Thank you!!!

Taesung Harmms

 

[Maki]

Beautiful sculpt and a perfect paint job.

Well done Alpine!
Mario

 

[pmfs]

Always great seeing new stuff from Alpine.

Cheers,
Pedro.

 

[gothicgeek]

Excellent!

 

[Joe55]

That's right Taesung, keep them tankers coming!

You only have me wondering about the smoker. He appears to be wearing an M41 jacket with an M43 over it. At least it resembles an M43 by the cut. However, the M43 does not have brass buttons and is closed with a zipper. The cuff buttons are a dark olive plastic. M43's were also olive drab in color and not khaki. The M41 likewise does not have brass buttons, but plastic ones in a dark brown color. Easy fixes for the figure painter, although replicating the zipper would be a little more work.

Nonetheless, this is a sharp looking pair, and I too appreciate this new release!

Joe

 

[T50]

Thanks for the kind words, guys!!!

Joe, you're right about the color of buttons. I haven't seen these box art figures painted in person
so I won't be able to tell you whether the buttons were actually painted in metallic brass color or not.
But I can tell you that the M43 Jackets do have a 7 button fly front closure... at least WW2 version.

http://www.germanmilitaria.com/OtherNations/Photos/C009172.html
http://www.germanmilitaria.com/OtherNations/photos/C036067.html

 

[Joe55]

That's correct, only notice that the buttons are not visible. On the female version of the M43 the buttons are exposed. I should say that the way you modeled this guy is fine since the jacket is open.

Joe

 

[tomifune]

State of the art stuff from Alpine as usual but I really don't see the resemblance to Brad Pitt.

Bob

 

[T50]

Brad who???

 

[marios1]

Hi Taesung, these figures are really welcome ...with other your us figures realized in the past ,110,171 and 186 they are a good bunch of us figures...in fact i ll try to trasform these new last in us infantry changing heads and weapons.. (from tankers...)!!!
I love so much your us figures and its a pity that you realize only a few of them respect the big number of germans figures you work on, but, as you said in the past , the market want germans.....and you realize what the market wants!!!!

If you ll realize other us figures in the future, i hope they will be us infantry with overcoat ,eventually at rest, style chow time, may be sits like these other germans and british your codes you realized in the past:35116,35031,36099 and 35079......may be!!!

However congratulation for your sculpting style and for these new us figures!!!!

Mario from Italy.

 

[MrBMB]

Nice set
Another pair to get now