After British infantry set n° 35339 another set is coming: 1/35 WWI British Infantry - w/Small Arms & Equipment.



I have the previous one, perhaps is better, more realistic, might not have used the same sculptor:


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Marco

The new set of figures look very static and uninspired.

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First one is horrible.....style is obsolete by 40 years. What's with those helmets?

Colin

I believe the 'new' Tamiya set is a rebox of the old ICM figures (10+ years old). It should say so on the box. Recent ICM figures for WW1 are much better, with good equipment.

[The recent ICM figures remind me of MasterBox figures (same sculptor?). But their poses are boring a bit.]

The Tamiya WW1 figure initially released with their Mk. IV set new standard for plastic figures (the second set above), in my opinion. I read somewhere that these are based on a 3D scan of the real thing.

Cheers,

Patrick

I have to agree that the new set just looks awful. Back to the drawing board for Tamiya me thinks.

Mark

The oiginal set looks much better. Shame Tamiya hasn't done it in 120mm!

Mike

I'm usually open to new releases and can appreciate them even if they're not my thing (for instance I'm not a fan of busts and wouldn't buy one but I love and admire what some PF members do with them). However this new set is simply dreadful- not sure why but they look wrong somehow - the officer appears to have a helmet over his hat or he's got a funny shaped head!

This is a shame as I bought a Takom Mark IV Male Tank recently and need some figures to go around it.

Got it off my chest and feel better now!

Cheers

Huw

The new set look really better than the old one !
But i do not really like Tamiya for figures, really prefer (in plastic) MB or ICM!

I am just figuring out if these awkward chaps were made by Trumpeter and we were in an airplane forum, how many pages would this topic have...

Well, since they came from Tamiya everything is softer I'm pretty sure we will see some of them at the competition tables in the upcoming years!

http://en.diorama.ru/workshop/reviews/64/

as said the "new" set from Tamiya is the set previously (about ten years ago) released by ICM - if you like it it might be cheaper without the Tamiya logo on its box

Tamiya wasted it's time on these.

They certainly look very similar to the ICM figures. However, Tamiya appear to have made some amendments to the figures. I have an original ICM set and the boxart shows a difference:-

The ICM sprue has some flash, but not enough to be inconvenient:-

A close-up of three of the heads shows them to be OK, but I'd tend to add Hornet Heads:-

Therefore, I most certainly won't waste my money on the Tamiya set of 4 figures, although I'm sure a reasonable result could be achieved with the ICM set (with Hornet heads).
The Tamiya set of 5 figures is a completely different kettle of fish, and is certainly worth looking at.
Cheers,
Andrew

Not inspired at all , so I'll stick to Masterbox and ICM for plastic figures .
chippy