Eleven poses, four of each, plus one officer only.
Good for trench raids, with 3 using club/grenade/entrenching tool, plus one with what looks like a kukri and multi grenades. One seems to be walking while reloading. Running figure is better done than most. Plus obligatory sentry with body armour, which manufacturers seem unable to resist. Since Revell already do one and the armour was rare anyway, Caesar needn't really have bothered. Plus one kneeling, two standing firing, and one perhaps bayonetting. Assault pack etc very good. Figs nearer to Revell in scale - not as beefy as the Airfix.
On the downside, some have gasmasks and some don't. The helmet isn't as well done as the Revell but much better than the Emhar and HäT. Biggest mistake is the man with the club and body armour - highly unlikely.
That's my summary. I don't think Plastic Soldier Review have anything to worry about.
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Armour and a grenade might be ok - see photo. Possibly armour wasn't quite that reare - see photo of armoured section. (note how it came in a one size doesn't fit all arangement - feel sorry for the short guy off to one side of the squad.)
Those are nice pics. I think I've seen the first one a long time ago. The caption to the second one reads, "German soldiers on the Western Front in the new steel breast armour that will be used principally by hand grenade and Minenwerfer (units)". That's assuming the last-but-one word is benutzt, which I can't quite make out.
As far as I knew, this kit was eagerly awaited - the first pic is, I think, part of a promotional exercise - but was a disappointment to the troops when it arrived, and was largely put into store. It just seems too heavy to be used where rapid movement is necessary, as in a charge or raid.
Stocks were certainly captured in the front line - see pic.
I agree that the bloke at the back in your pic could be Baldric.
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Hi James and Centurion, Back in the 70s when I was extremly fit.. a friend of mine who collected militatia had one of these armour sets it was very heavy and uncomfortable and seriously restricted your agility also wieght distribution was bad, all the wieght hanging on the shoulders and front, so I'm of the opinion that such armour is really only of use in fixed defensive positions... MG crew for example and sentrys would probarbly benefit....I think it would take an unusually hardy man to lugg one of these around a WW1 battlefield in an attack.......Stormtrooper Baldric looks rather forlorn.........
Ivor - sorry, I forgot you've mentioned your first-hand experience before. And even serving a Minenwerfer would be a struggle. You and Centurion are right - it would probably be OK in defence, and the caption (which I trust on this occasion) seems to bear that out. Probably best to replace the mace with a grenade, and I don't think the rifle would be slung in that case.
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Hi James, would you be able post a comparison image between revell emhar and the caesar germans I'd like to know how they compare size wise..I'm not impressed with the poses to be honest, some look a bit odd the guys with outstreached arms seem un-natural and well the grenadier in gasmask just standing there seems to be a waste.....
The mould quality on these is excellent, up to Preiser standard. It's a hard-ish soft plastic, detail is very sharp, no flash at all, and the mould line is barely discernible. They come in a sealable plastic bag thing inside a box that, unfortunately, shows the man in body armour charging. They're not on a main sprue, but each figure has a bit of sprue attached to the side of the base, so no need to trim under the base. And, mercifully, none with the sprue attached at the helmet, which is always a pain.
The running figure is brilliant - on a par with the Preiser WWII motorised infantry figs in hard plastic - but, as you say, the poses are a bit samey. It's as if Peter had to get all his research into one set. And there really is no need for another sentry in armour. But mixed in with the Revell they add a bit of variety.
Pics enclosed. Not up to PSR standard, Im afraid, but you get the idea.
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i have just bought these Ceasar set and I am very please with them!!, we should be lucky we have something so detailed which is available as Great War figures and equipment is something we find is not "popular" , yes some of the figures particulary the ones in armour can not be used except in a static role but i intend to mix them in with some Revell ones I have.
i have just bought these Ceasar set and I am very please with them!!, we should be lucky we have something so detailed which is available as Great War figures and equipment is something we find is not "popular" , yes some of the figures particulary the ones in armour can not be used except in a static role but i intend to mix them in with some Revell ones I have.
