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Hi everyone! Today we take a look at some figures again,
this time the Ghost Division tank crew set from Dragon in 1/35 scale.
As you can see the set includes three tank crew men and one infantryman of the famous 7th Panzer Division.
In my opinion they don´t have to be used only for the French campaign, they suit to the Polish campaign aswell.
As you can see the figures are arranged like pairs, those two guys are smoking,
and this one is guiding his wounded comrade away from the frontline.
The figures can be combinded on one diorama of course, but its not necessary.
You can use each pair already to tell a story on a diorama, the smoking lads are fine as single figures.
There are no restrictions to creativity.
On the back we can find the assembling instructions, typical for Dragon.
Its not very detailed but i don´t think it is necessary.
The assembly is straightforward and logic.
Down here we have a smaller version of the boxart as a painting guide.
Thats a bit meagre, especially beginners have no idea which paints to use.
I personally don´t have to look it up anymore, i know how to paint certain parts of the German equipment.
Most model builders do it the same way, but i can imagine beginners may have trouble with this.
There are three grey plastic sprues, two for the equipment and one for the actual figures.
Here you can see why it is not really necessary to include a detailed assembly instruction,
all parts that belong to one figure are located next to each other.
As you can see the level of detail is very nice, the uniform detail is very crisp.
Here you can see the cable of the radio gear.
No flash in sight, almost no edges. Sometimes its hard to avoid edges on figure parts, thats normal.
The faces look not bad at all, for plastic figures they are fantastic.
The professional model builder will use resin heads for sure, i rarely do that.
There is not much to criticise on the faces.
Here there are the cigarettes for the smoking soldiers, they put a lot of thought into it.
The equpiment parts are the newest ones from Dragon called "Generation 2" (Gen2) which is written on the box, too.
The gas mask tubes can be assembled in opened position, there is much more equipment included than is actually needed.
This helps to fill up the spare box and you can improve the detail of other figures.
It looks very neat.
I like the new way of attaching the helmets to the sprue, in the past they were attached on the back rim,
that used to be a test for the model builder´s nerves,
it was very hard to cut them from the sprue without breaking the helmet on the back rim.
The new way is much better, if necessary you can clean up the helmet with a sanding stick and thats it.
I appreciate it a lot.
Here the sprue with the weapons, again nice details.
On the top there are separate magazines and clips.
The MP40 smg´s come with folded in rifle butts, but one can be assembled in expanded position. Very nice.
The rifles look great aswell, but nowadays all manufacturers manage it to make them look nicely.
In my opinion the level of detail is great, at least when it comes to plastic figures.
Of course there is even better level of detail available if you think of resin and white metal figures.
Within their own leage called "plastic figures" these figures are superb.
The details are crisp and there is a lot of extra equipment included. Overall beautiful figures.
This kit costs 13-14€ which is quite expensive if you compare it with Masterbox for example where you pay less than 10€.
Of course Dragon puts a lot of "know-how" into these figures, but do we really need that?
In my opinion the Masterbox figures are definately good enough and more interesting,
the Dragon figures are neat and perfect for sure but expensive.
Every model builder has to decide this on his own, i just wanted to have some German tankers in my stash,
especially some with the early uniform including the tank cap. These are quite rare unfortunately.
I hope you enjoyed this kit review, see you in the next video, your Hamilkar Barkas.