Miniart US Tankcrew NW- Europe

Always a sucker for US-Tankcrews I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one.
you get five figures on two grey sprues.
The first thing I noticed when opening the box, there is surprisingly a lot of flash, I dunno if this was just my
particular production batch but if so it's not so pleasant.
The guys wear all winter clothing, the commander has a mackinaw.
My impression is that the clothing looks crisply enough, with good natural looking folds and creases, some small parts of the uniforms
are separate for extra detail. specially the shoe-pacs look pretty convincing.

now for the heads... this is a real let-down. they are coarse and plain butt-ugly.
reminded me of some good-ole italeri vintage stuff, yes, that bad..

never the faint-hearted I tried to paint them anyway, considering myself not such a bad figure-painter but after several runs with lavish application of
paint-killer for yet anotiher re-run, I just gave up. Don't know if it's just me but I think it's not worth the pain(t) bothering with them.
get some decent resin-noggins and you gonna be fine.

so apart from the heads, all in all I think you get a real nice set of plastic figures for your Shermy in some late ardennes diorama.

MTom
Very cool review...
I saw these figures and thought the same thing, Way cool. Now that fact that I haven't
built a Sherman in forever (and the last one was a Soviet Lend Least) I know most people can't believe that I would make it Soviet.
But they do have some great looking relaxed poses. Winter uniforms are a plus too, since there really aren't that many around.
Like you said, I'm sure there a some great heads that would make these guys really pop.
Thanks again for the review.
I might just have to look into them and maybe find an M-18 Helcat or M-10 to put them in. I think that would be really sweet too.
Great review. Thanks for posting it.
Shawn

Greetings all,

I have three of the figures manning my Italeri M24 Chaffee in a Winter scene (what else) entered in the MRC Model Contest. This crew is fantastic and yes there is some extra flash and the poses are a little odd to speak of the tiny faults but the best of the figures is here with this set. Be sure to look at my FB page Hobbies in a Barn when you get a chance for more detailed photos of this great set.

Thanks to all viewers,

John Staehle, New Mexico, USA!

Thanks again,
I'll check out your FB Page.

Hi Shawn,

Thank you very much for your friendly feedback.
Always appreciate the opinion of a fellow- modeller.

I finished all figures meanwhile and I am not so enthusiastic about them anymore as I was in the beginning.
They do have some slightly odd poses and the uniforms miss this nitty-gritty baggy appearance.
They look pretty tight to me and the guys are small around the hips and while this is generally appreciated in a male physique by they ladies (so I've heard)
I don't want to have my average GI Tanker look like a spanish flamenco dancer.

All in all they are still not bad and I do like miniarts approach.

Understood,
Thanks for the update...
Shawn