Here's the story :
I was searching around for Dragon 1/72 tanks yesterday when I happened across this site :
eBay Store - GHOSTDIVISION QUARTERMASTER: 1 35 Painted Figures, Magazines Books, Collectibles Candy Toys
It's an E-bay store out of Singapore. They do lots of WWII pre-painted figures. Most of their stuff is in 1/35 scale or 1/48 scale, but they have a small group of 1/72 figures (
currently they are all U-boat crews!?! 
). Their store info. says they paint and sell over a hundred figures a month, and that they are "the largest builder of quality built models and painted figures on E-Bay". The figures are great looking (S
ee attached pictures below - they are from the store auctions. Their caption says the pictures are magnified and the figures look better once they are in your hand). The price is quite decent (
all Buy It Now) and the shipping is amazingly low, seeing how its coming from Singapore. The 1/48 and 1/35 one are great, too.
So I sent an E-Bay message to the store and asked them if they ever did WWII aircraft ground crew or pilot figures. I told them about the forum and that a bunch of us would love to find pre-painted figures to go with the 1/72 planes, and that there really seemed to be no good, decently priced source. He e-mailed be back this morning to say he doesn't have any right now (
and it sounded like he hasn't done any before, but I'm not sure), but he was going to get working on some right away. He said it would take him a month or two to get them in, paint them and get them ready. He didn't specify exactly what figures he was going to do, but I e-mailed him back and stated that U.S. and German ground crews / pilots would probably be the most popular.
So, with luck, we might have a source for 1/72 pre-painted figures to go with our planes by February or March. The store owner said he would e-mail me when the figures were ready. But he might get a better idea of what you guys want and how much interest there is for the figures if you guys e-mail him. Go ahead and check out the E-Bay store site (
see Store Categories "1/48, 1/72 Painted Figures") and see if they are what we're looking for. If it's to your liking, e-mail the owner so we can show him he has a market for pilot / ground crew figures. That's about it. I'll get back to you when I hear more.
Bye-eye, SkyBuffalo
