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| Subject: | Tristar figures vs Dragon Gen-2 |  |
| Date: | Apr 23, 2007 |
| From: | Jerry Plettenberg | |
For Alan,
Hi, to answer your question on Dragon Gen-2 Figures; in the recent past Dragon have released some earlier sets like the Stug Loading Crew which are definitely not Gen-2 Figures.
The Gen-2 Figures all have separate left and right legs with separate feet/boots, front and rear torso halves, separate jacket tails in four different parts, faces in two parts and so on and so on.
Many of the figures even have two different optional poses as well, for example either holding a Panzerfaust of a Kar98 rifle.
On the whole the Gen-2 Figures are really a very big improvement over the usual plastic cast figs.
Go to Dragon's own site and check out details on their sets like -for example- 6276 "1st Fallschirmjaeger Division Holland 1904", 6274 "1st Luftwaffe Feld Division Novgorod 1944", 6278 "Last Battle Austria" and the mine-detector set for which I can't find the catalogue number right now.
My own favourites are the Luftwaffe Felddivision set with four figs in padded thermo winter overalls in two different patterns, the animation is fantastic and the Last Battle Austria set which even unpainted already is dramatically dynamic.
I agree that it is a bit confusing that Dragon are releasing some 'renewed' previously released sets with only a sprue with Gen-2 weapons, gas masks, waterbottles etc and photo etch thrown in with the older figures.
The figures themselves are still the same and not Gen-2.
So you just got to be aware of the fact that not all new figure releases by Dragon are real Gen-2.
If they are, it says so on the box illustration.
H.T.H. and Happy Modelling
Jerry |
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