Landships II

Jaroslav K · Major

New set: Russian Infantry WWI 1/72 Zvezda.

Hughbearson · General

Do you know if its available in the UK yet?

Jaroslav K · Major

http://www.tracks-n-troops.eu/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=14_3&products_id=9840

-- Edited by Jaroslav K on Thursday 16th of December 2010 08:59:21 PM

James H · Legend

They're in Hannants's New Arrivals. Not at Harfields or F&S so far.

Pat · Commander in Chief

They're available via several traders in Europe now. Order placed, fingers crossed (1:1).

Pat · Commander in Chief

Arrived now. First impressions:

As to be expected from Zvezda, sculpting is top notch, but these are tall figures. How tall they are precisely I will have to measure later.

Detail is fine. Zvezda's WW1 Germans seem spindly in places giving the impression these went into production premature. The Russians are nothing of that sort. There is some moulding seam here and there. The ammo pouches are too closely placed next to each other on the figures not facing the mould, and generally it is difficult to make out the shoulder tabs. There is no flash and the general feeling is of a quality product.

The officer makes no attempt of wielding his pistol or sword. We all are lead to believe Russian officers do this all the time, so we will have to see how this scores in terms of historical accuracy.

Weaponry thus is limited to rifles and to one Maxim. The rifles are very crisp, all have bayonets fixed as they should. Most figures have one or both arms as separate pieces, one arm usually cast together with the rifle. Only the MG crew figures need to be made up of four pieces each. If the fit is good chances are this might be the best MG team on the market.

RCD · Lieutenant-Colonel

Pat wrote:

Arrived now. First impressions:

As to be expected from Zvezda, sculpting is top notch, but these are tall figures. How tall they are precisely I will have to measure later.

Detail is fine. Zvezda's WW1 Germans seem spindly in places giving the impression these went into production premature. The Russians are nothing of that sort. There is some moulding seam here and there. The ammo pouches are too closely placed next to each other on the figures not facing the mould, and generally it is difficult to make out the shoulder tabs. There is no flash and the general feeling is of a quality product.

The officer makes no attempt of wielding his pistol or sword. We all are lead to believe Russian officers do this all the time, so we will have to see how this scores in terms of historical accuracy.

Weaponry thus is limited to rifles and to one Maxim. The rifles are very crisp, all have bayonets fixed as they should. Most figures have one or both arms as separate pieces, one arm usually cast together with the rifle. Only the MG crew figures need to be made up of four pieces each. If the fit is good chances are this might be the best MG team on the market.

The seasons greetings �to all

Apart from the usual size issue with Zvezda there�is the MG.�I bought the WW2 version to modify to��WW1 has rather put me off figures with large numbers of bits. It might be my inapt gluing technique but�I found the figures a right sod to get right. Would be interested how others get on the the slightly different MG in�the WW1�set.

Has�any one out there seen slight or sound of the Pegasus WW1 French? E-mailed to enquire about time line for UK but no reply yet. Hopes are not high that Santa will bring it this Christmas!

Just leaves the 25+ sets from HaT and upteen from Strelets for 2011 (and the WW1 French set from Caesar if they can get over their current Nazi fetish)�.

After such a lean year in 2010��we may have a bumper crop of sets in 2011.

Pat · Commander in Chief

Don't want to spoil your Christmas party but the measurements turn out as suspected.

These are about 27mm tall including the cap and about 26mm without it.

They match the Italeri Prussians quite well size-wise, which is to say they won't match 1/72 figures all that well. http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/ShowFeature.aspx?id=22#NapPruMil

Pat · Commander in Chief

These do not match the H�T WW1 or Airfix figures well, neither the WW2 Esci / Italeri ones or the Boxer rebellion Russians. The closest match I found are the figures from Revell's WW2 Soviet infantry.

As a side note, one figure wears puttys, the other boots.

Ironsides · Legend

Hi RCD The WW1 french are available on ebay.de

Hi Pat any chance of a comparison pic scan or photo ...

Cheers smile

Pat · Commander in Chief

Ironsides wrote:

Hi Pat any chance of a comparison pic scan or photo ...

Hi Ironsides - PM sent. Regards, Pat

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Ironsides · Legend

Hi Pat,

To post an image�from your PC check the "Attach Files" box,�a new File upload window will open, select the first empty slot and click on Browse this will open a new window to navigate to the relevant file...

Select the�file/s one for each slot as many as you like the maximum is ten.. once all files are selected scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Upload files..

When all files have finished uploading uncheck the Attach files box and the upload window will close, a list of all files uploaded will appear at the bottom of the page....

Hope this is some help..

Cheers wink

-- Edited by Ironsides on Tuesday 28th of December 2010 11:33:50 PM

Pat · Commander in Chief

Hi Ironsides, many thanks for the instructions. Simpler than those in the "on the forum" section!

The image show a comparison between a Zvezda figure and one H�T WW1 (grey, cap), one Esci/Italeri WW2 (grey, helmet) and one Revell WW2 figure (sand) each. The Zvezda guy is not the tallest figure in the box but about average.

Kneeling figures mix better as the size different is less obvious.

The plan now is to use all these excellent separate arms to beef up the Esci guy waving his submachine gun - the pose everyone hates in that WW2 set. He also needs a headswap and the ammo pouch cut off to look WW1.

I might also replace some sMGs in the excellent Pegasus WW2 Soviet Naval Infantry with rifles to backdate them for WW1 / Kronstadt. The rifle size is nearly identical in all these sets. Regards, Pat

-- Edited by Pat on Thursday 30th of December 2010 04:05:02 PM

-- Edited by Pat on Thursday 30th of December 2010 04:05:38 PM