[MoMo]

Watch out for this company if you buy mail order figures and you are expecting a set of 1.72 to appear! I sent this email to the guys at Plastic Soldier Review, 1.72. I copied it to here for those of you who were looking forward to the two new sets, as I was. The sets have lots of bits in hard plastic and they would have made a very useful addition to any plastic modeller's range. The scale of them is too much to ignore.

At £8.99 a set for 64 figures, and with many innovative touches, these sets had the potential to become the best Germans ever! Twelve basic poses with lots of interchangable arms and heads + many loose weapons.

Dear Plastic Soldier Review 1.72 Review Guys,

I don't know if you have recieved sets of the new Valiant Germans and Tommies, WW2 sets, but you have to see the scale of these things to believe them!

They are more like 1.64 scale. When you get round to commenting, I think that the scale has to be the Big Issue!

The set looked very promising. I bought the German set for the loose heads, which I thought would be very useful. The poses looked appealing...lots of figures advancing...good for dioramas. I took a chance, thinking that they couldn't be that wildly out of scale. I was wrong. These guys appear to be ubermensch when compared to most figures. They even make Ceasar Germans look like midgets.

This had the potential to be a brilliant set, in hard plastic and with lots of parts to make a variety of variations.

Too bad! At £8.99 a set, they're great if you want to buy one set and no others. They appear to be aimed at wargamers who can mix them in with those dwarf-like metal slugs which they are so fond of.

If none of this is news to you, treat it as a 'Hello' from someone who watches your site avidly.

[Legio LXXII]

Interesting you should bring them up, I've read several posts on these figures on different forums just in the last couple days. The Valiant figure is on the far right, the other figures are from various plastic ranges. They dwarf every other 1/72 plastic figure out there and the weapons are about 30% over scale.

[easy8]

Too bad! At £8.99 a set, they're great if you want to buy one set and no others. They appear to be aimed at wargamers who can mix them in with those dwarf-like metal slugs which they are so fond of.


MoMo, that was darn funny! No offense to the wargamers out there, but that line about the dwarf metal slugs made me laugh out loud! Anyway, what the heck is up with these new figs? Talk about missing the mark! Are they being marketed by Valiant as being 1/72 scale?

easy8

[MoMo]

Thanks for the comparison chart, LegioLXXll. It looks like a scene from " The Usual Suspects" It is obvious from the chart/comparison pic. that the Valiant figures are way over scale!

MoMo, that was darn funny! No offense to the wargamers out there, but that line about the dwarf metal slugs made me laugh out loud! Anyway, what the heck is up with these new figs? Talk about missing the mark! Are they being marketed by Valiant as being 1/72 scale?

Hi Easy Eight! I posted this information because, as you may have surmised, the figures are marketed as 1.72 scale. Many AFV collectors are modellers too, but most of the guys who collect and paint figures in the USA, and other areas where distances may be a problem, buy their stuff Mail Order and have it shipped to them.

On paper, this set is great. It has everything a true modeller could wish for : 68 figures; 40 spare heads in 4 varieties; hard plastic for easy painting and conversion; a dozen spare arms for varying poses; seperate weapons for varying poses, etc.

I wanted to warn forum members that this set will not fit in with their 1.72 AFVs or any figures which they have in 1.72. In other words, I am telling them to save their cash if they think that they are buying a dream set ( which this would have been if it was true to scale! )

To be fair to Valiant, they have inserted a leaflet which clearly states that the set is suitable for collectors who want to play wargames, and that it was designed with the game " Rapid Fire" in mind. It even furnishes a link to a site which downloads a cut-down version of " Rapid Fire".

As I said, it's too bad about this set. It is now, in my opinion, one of the great ' might have beens '!

MoMo

[easy8]

Thanks for the heads up on these MoMo! Good for wargamers, but bad for display and diorama folks like me!

easy8

[tankguy]

Wow, and I believe that when these were first announced, the scale was listed as 1/76!

It looks like they are intended to go with the currently popular "28mm" metal dwarfs which are currently the rage. I can't believe that they are really trying to palm these off as 1:72. I hope plasticsoldierreview.com puts up a review soon so more people will know how big these are. I'd be really po'd if I bought a box blind and opened it to find these things.

Thanks for posting the pic!

[MoMo]

Wow, and I believe that when these were first announced, the scale was listed as 1/76!

Tankguy

Dear Tankguy, you may be confusing this set with the recently issued and excellent Pegasus set of 1.76 German Infantry. I have seen these and they're very good. I believe that Pegasus also intend to issue them in 1.72. Imex have also issued a new set of 1.72 Germans and they are useful.

[MoMo]

Plastic Soldier Review have just posted their thoughts on this set at :


http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/...VLT&code=VM002

[MoMo]

You can also read their take on Valiant's British Infantry on this page :


http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/...VLT&code=VM001