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jimbrae
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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 04:10 AM UTC
Alpine Miniatures have just announced their latest 1/35th scale figures - this time, two for the Afrika Korps. Details and images of these new releases, can be seen:

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

exer
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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 05:12 AM UTC
I like the guy with his hands in his pockets- a change of head and some work on the shoulder straps and he'd be a nice desert Commonwealth Tanker
DT61
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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 05:13 AM UTC
Pat,

That is a great idea. They sure do some great figures. Hope to pick a couple at the Azax model show that is coming up soon.

Darryl
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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 09:29 AM UTC
I also like the hands-in-pockets guy - but the other figure looks a bit "precious".

- Steve
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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 10:34 AM UTC
I nice set of figures
Tarok
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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 11:13 AM UTC
Nice set! NA is one of my favourite WW2 theatres, so it's nice to see Alpine release more figures for it. Definitely a set for me to pick up!

Interesting to see Taesung hand over more sculpting to other sculptors now that Alpine is a household name in modelling terms. Yukio Honma? I'm not familiar with the name though. Anyone else recognise it? Who's he done work for?

Rudi
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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 11:39 AM UTC
Hello Gents
Thank you all for the kind words. As always, I really
appreciate your support and encouragement.

Rudi
Yes, I start to ask other artists to sculpt figures for Alpine
for a few reasons. One is to enrich the Alpine line with
famous artists such as Hirano and Mike Good. (Yukio Honma
makes figures for Pegaso, Tamiya, ect) The other reason
is that I just can not keep up with Alpine's release schedule
with my own figures.

By the way, I'm in Korea for a small figure show with Calvin Tan
at the moment.

Cheers
TS


Tarok
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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 04:32 PM UTC

Quoted Text

Rudi
Yes, I start to ask other artists to sculpt figures for Alpine
for a few reasons. One is to enrich the Alpine line with
famous artists such as Hirano and Mike Good. (Yukio Honma
makes figures for Pegaso, Tamiya, ect) The other reason
is that I just can not keep up with Alpine's release schedule
with my own figures.

By the way, I'm in Korea for a small figure show with Calvin Tan
at the moment.

Cheers
TS



Thanks Taesung. I'll have a look through the catalogues you mentioned for Yukio Honma's works. It'll be great to see some Mike Good figures in your stable.

I saw on Calvin's website that he had popped over to the Korean show - I was actually wondering if you'd make the trip as well. If you happen to make a detour via Melbourne on the way home... let me know... we'll grab some beers, golf clubs and shoot the breeze

Rudi

EDIT: Taesung, thanks for the direction to Yukio Honma's work for Pegaso/Platoon. As chance would have it I've actually got this figure in my stash - got it some time back but never got around to painting it... what's new. I reckon you've got a decent sculptor there, together with Alpine's famous casting quality, you should have another winner
ldom77
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Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 10:44 PM UTC
thats really a new great set of figure !

one question and a wish to taesung :

can you make us a duo of US Airborn1944 in 1/35 for Christmass ?
that will be fantastic !

Dom
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Posted: Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 03:54 AM UTC
Undless possibilities with the guy with is hands in his pockets, a real winner. Nice to see Alpine moving away from they're winter Germans
taesung
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Posted: Monday, October 13, 2008 - 03:48 PM UTC
Gents,
Thanks for the comments!!!
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