I think they would look great with a 1/32 Monogram Panzer IV or an Airfix 250 Halftrack . And doesn't Renwall have tank kits in 1/32 ? Nice figures , but I don't get why they are not released in 1/35 either

Aren't the Revell/Airfix/Renwall 1/32 just blobs of plastics from the 60s?

Monogram/Airfix/Renwal were of varying quality. The Renwal are toy-like; Renwal tried to make accurate models but the technology of the day plus the marketing philosophy of animated features, opening hatches, etc., kept them from what was becoming the "serious" model phase. Some, like the HAWK SAM battery, need total rebuilding to make it accurate. I read that others, like the M42 Duster, the Skysweeper AAA, Self-propelled howitzer, and M47 are actually accurate models. I don't recall if I ever built a 1/32 Airfix vehicle, although their 1/32 HARD plastic figure sets are pretty darn impressive. I've read 9long ago) that some of them are competitive with contemporary Tamiya offerings. Revell never made 1/32 military vehicles, only aircraft. Their series of tanks and trucks and guns are 1/40. Every 1/32 military vehicle under Revell's banner is a Monogram or Renewal re-issue. Monogram's 1/32 series span the ages. Their jeep and Vietnam-era models were nice for the day but would need a great deal of work to bring them up to the standard of late-1970s Tamiya offerings. Their later tanks kept improving: Lee, Grant, Shermans, Brumbar, Wirbelwind; I might be confusing another article yet I recall in the mid-1990s that Steven Zaloga wrote highly of the Monogram M4 Sherman series. The problem is not that Monogram's later AFVs were bad models, they were a bad scale; like Airfix, Monogram clung to the Occidental scale of 1/32 when Tamiya was dominating the world with 1/35. Monogram decided they could not compete with the dozens of new releases per year and decided to focus on 1/48 aircraft and other subjects.

That baffles me, too. There is still a thriving 54mm (1/32) figure culture out there. Perhaps these are made for that group, as well as collectors of 1/32 die-cast who want to have and paint a few high-quality figures to pose with the die-cast? These models have deep recesses reminiscent of the Imrie/Risley Miniatures series of 1/32-54mm paratroopers.

I get that, although I wonder how big that market might be. I once was a diecast collector until I switched to building 1/35, but the two main manufacturers (21st Century and Unimax/FOV) didn't release that wide a range of subjects (mostly repaints of the most popular subjects like Tigers and Shermans) before calling it quits. Most everything made today in 1/32 is aircraft. So sure, I can see wanting new figures to pose with the vehicles one has now, but I feel there is only so much potential in that market before it becomes saturated.

The scale was a bit puzzling for me as well. Here is the explanation from the distributor: --- There are some companies making 1/32 scale pre-painted military vehicles and figures for collectors. One major player is Force of Valor. This is FOV's website LINK and you can find a very extensive range of pre-painted AFV models. There are a quite large fan base of 1/32 finished AFVs in China as well as in many other countries. Qing Yi's 101 Airborne Division series was targeting these collectors. Qing Yi Miniatures also makes pre-painted 1/32 figures based on its resin figures and such pre-painted figures are released in very small batches. In addition, there are also some Chinese companies making 1/32 pre-painted AFVs. Also one famous figure manufacturer, Andrea, makes a large range of unpainted resin and metal figures in 1/32 (54mm). LINK --- So it seems these are aimed more at collectors than modelers, which was my impression when I read about the 54mm scale. Anyway, there is a market for these figures and if you are interested in Qing Yi's 1/35 scale figures, Neucraft Models commisioned the sculptor to do some figures for them. The first is already released and reviewed here: link. New 1/35 scale figures are in progress as we speak. Mario

A little bit expensive for such figure, same price a Metal Modeles or Pegaso !!

Hi Mario, Thanks. That makes sense. Sometimes I have to recall that some US/EU markets are relatively small compared to Asia; about 10 years ago at a Master Con the Tamiya USA told my friends that USA/EU only accounted for about 20% of Tamiya's sales.

the band of brothers in 1/35th.