WIP Critique German Tank Crew Normandy 1944

licmas-tank · Oct 23, 2017

We have cooperation with an manufacturer which produce other scale then our scale 1:16. we have licence to make this figures in our 1:16 scale. at the moment we use the painted picture as basis and the small figures for the posture. some do we change like we need or for our ideas.

our first project in this case was the german tank crew normandy 1944. we got for this an new sculptor, much better then the one we had before. before we must break up or figure projects, because result was to bad. now i want share with you the bodys before painting. in the progress of the sculpting i advise the sculptor and together we get an finished product. with every project i learn to look more for the details.

i want show you now the bodys and later on the master painting and the painting for production. we prodcute this crew as a kit only and assembled and painted too.

here are the pictures......opinions wanted...

i start with the commander of the tank crew.....

here are the loader...

here are the radio operator...

here are the tank driver...

here the last one, the marksman...

thank you for your comments and opinions...
greetings, licma

tigerdio · Oct 23, 2017

I love it, is the figure 4 parts? The body one piece, head and two arms? Nice casting and sculpting. Good luck with it.

licmas-tank · Oct 23, 2017

hello, thank you for your comment.

at the moment we make three parts, body and two arms. greetings, licma

Martin64 · Oct 23, 2017

Hi Matthias,
as requested by PM I respond to your new release

- thank you for listening to members of this forum. I really appreciate the willingness of producers like you to have feedback beyond "great" and "must buy" - IMHO this will be a benefit for the producer and his potential customers likewise.

The masters of these figures are a huge progress in comparison to your last figure.
They looked very familiar to me and as you mentioned that you cooperate with another manufacturer - here we go:

I guess that you have access to the masters for these plastic figures of Miniart - congratulations!
The detail on these figures is still not as refined as on masters for figures that are made for resin casts in 1/16 scale because they are made with keeping in mind that the downscaled plastic copies in 1/35 scale still should show the details of these masters and so they are slightly exaggerated but I like what I see.
The figures show personality and display different styles of the uniforms of the Panzertruppe. Four of them display partially or entirely the U-Boot-leathers that were first issued to Normandy tank crews of SS LAH and HJ Division and then kept in use till the last days of WW II. So the time span is somewhat limited to the final stage of WW II but maybe another future release will bring us more variants of the Panzer uniform or even a tank crew of other nations

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It is a good idea to offer these figures as kits - if you can do this at a competitive price I think that at least two of them (accordeon player and tank crew with unbuttoned jacket) offer themselves for display as Miniatures in their own right without a 1/16 scale tank as a backdrop

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As general anatomy looks good further refinements on details like volumes of clothing, additional folds, hands and faces should not be too difficult.
Thumbs up from my side and great progress for your range!!
Cheers, Martin