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JamesH


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Now that Ehar and HaT have introduced easily glued plastics, I wonder if anyone shares my thought that manufacturers could produce sets of figures with interchangeable limbs and even torsos?


Emhar's kneeling rifleman in the US infantry set has a separate right arm for moulding purposes, but separate limbs could produce a much wider range of poses. The inaccurate but simple Airfix British Infantry, if they are sliced cleanly through at the belt-line, can have their torsos swapped around to produce lots of variations (kneeling grenade-thrower, walking at the port, etc)


It would take a bit of careful design, but if all the figures matched at that line, combining them in a number of ways would be easy and excellent for creating the diversity of poses called for in dioramas.



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Peter Kempf


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Well, Presier makes wonderful sets of 1/72 figures where practically everything is "swappable" and that is of course to prefer from a modellers point of view.


The problem is, i think, economics. Most figures in this scale are aimed at playing kids and wargamers rather than us hard-core modellers. And for the two first segmenst of the market, soft plastic makes a lot of sense.


So let us wish for more hard plastic sets with swappable extremities, but at the same time not hold our breath over it. In the meantime the new glue from LocTite will make the classic surgery of these soft figures that you mention, easier.



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