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Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 12:47 PM UTC
Dragon is releasing a new set of figures next August, using new technologies and adding DS uniforms and boots as bonus.
Dragon already utilizes high-tech engineering processes to create its kits, but now the newest-generation technology is influencing – and improving – its 1/35 scale range of figures. Figure sets are wholly designed using computers. In other words, no master figure is produced or needed.
From initial design through to final tooling using advanced computer programs, 100% of the detail is retained in the computer files. Indeed, the results are evident in Dragon’s newest set of 1/35 scale German infantry.

There are three figures in this new set depicting soldiers fighting in the Battle of Smolensk and Roslavl in 1941.

The box includes a number of bonus accessories made of DS materials.
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It's a Czech MG that the Brent was based on. Dragon has included it in other sets. See if Dragon really cared about value, there would be two of the figure sprues in the box not a bunch of DS uniforms
JUN 01, 2016 - 06:03 AM
This what happens when everybody complains about the "pointing figure" in every dragon figure set, they just omit it and only leave you three. 😉
JUN 01, 2016 - 09:28 AM
Now that is funny! Cheers, Joe
JUN 01, 2016 - 11:13 AM
They may be using the latest technology but to me the wrinkles of the clothes and the boots look too similar between the different figures. We might start seeing them using the copy & paste too often.
JUN 01, 2016 - 03:32 PM
When I saw this I thought it would be an in combat set, maybe even Soviet infantry. It's cool news but Dragon needs to do something a bit more animated
JUN 01, 2016 - 11:43 PM
CAD may be new technology for Dragon's 1/35th scale figures but most certainly not in the industry. It's been the standard for a good lot of companies in the toy and figure industry for years now. Tamiya on the other hand has been making use of 3D-scanners for its figures in recent memory.
JUN 04, 2016 - 03:38 AM
While they look quite nicely done I can imagine that this set will be quite expensive due to the DS clothing. The figures are far too close to the Advance To Kharkov set and the 28th Infantry set to be of any new use. It would appear that Dragon has completely run out of ideas and now think that the DS clothing is going to be a big draw. What would make a lot more sense to me would be DS clothing as an accessory set, rather like their weapon sets or the German Equipment set that was out in the late 80's and to actually manufacture some figures in dynamic positions ie fighting! I'm actually working on an early war "standing around doing sweet f.a" German dio and am having trouble working out which figures to use there are that many! I currently have six boxes sat next to me with about another five in the cupboard to choose from. We don't need anymore standing about Germans!
JUN 04, 2016 - 07:43 AM
The fourth guy is wearing experimental "invisible" camo clothing. Obviously works very well! Decades ahead of US experiments.
JUN 04, 2016 - 08:15 PM
For those who didn't actually check the link, the usual fourth figure is deleted in lieu of accessory pieces of clothing in DS. Dragon has included DS clothing previously. All the figures are moulded in the usual styrene.
JUN 04, 2016 - 08:21 PM
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