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ICM figures for dios
Posted by hemble on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:00 PM
Hi Guys

I want to start getting back into doing some 1/35 dios and was wondering if anyone has built any ICM figures (especially Germans) and so what is the qaulity like of them.

Ron
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  • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted by zokissima on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:01 PM
I have one of their figure sets, but I have not built them up. I'd say that they're much better than Tamiya figures. Wash them carefully, and take care when painting, and you'll get a good result. I like the general marching poses, very natural and realistic, IMO.
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Posted by DURR on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:18 PM
Sign - Ditto [#ditto] they are nice
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Posted by HeavyArty on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:07 PM
Haven't tried any of their WWII German figures, but their modern ones are nice. They are about on par, maybe a little below DML ones. They are pretty nice and very usable. Pretty descent figures.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:56 PM
The figures are nice but their design is stolen from Revell 1/35 figs for example ICM German Tank Crew is the same as the Revell one the same is with the German Panzergrenadiers and panzer riders..My opinion is that the original Revell figs are much beter with more detail .The ICM's great battles of WWII series include mainly the Revell Panzergrenadies the diference is that the Revell kit includes 8figs while ICM have made to diferent kits with 4 figs. Be carefull becouse Revell's Panzergrenadiers are smaller than the usual 1/35 scale figs so are all ICM figs that came from this matrix
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Posted by HeavyArty on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:10 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Shtepsela

The figures are nice but their design is stolen from Revell ....


Actually, I belive they are reboxed Revell figures. Revell reboxes ICM kits as well. The Revell Ural truck is a reboxed ICM product. This occurs often in the modeling industry. They are reboxed under another company's name to distribute them through their sytem and get the model out to more markets. Happens all the time and the companies agree on it. Don't think they stole anything.

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Posted by hemble on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:23 PM
Thanks for the help guys really apprecate the feedback, I'll have to give them a try

Ron
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  • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted by zokissima on Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:58 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by HeavyArty

Haven't tried any of their WWII German figures, but their modern ones are nice. They are about on par, maybe a little below DML ones. They are pretty nice and very usable. Pretty descent figures.

Good to hear. I have a couple of their WWII fig sets, but ordered some modern stuff. The Cold War fig set looks real nice. Do you have this one?
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Posted by HeavyArty on Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:11 AM
QUOTE: Good to hear. I have a couple of their WWII fig sets, but ordered some modern stuff. The Cold War fig set looks real nice. Do you have this one?


Nope, but what does it look like? They seem to mix and match figures to get different combo sets. For example, the Mujahadins are in about 3 different sets with either Soviet Spetznaz for Afghanistan, US troops for a War on Terror set, and by themselves as the Mujahadin. They also have combo sets with Soviet and other troops for Chechnya and the Balkans, etc. too. Their new, modern Rusian Special Ops troops looks really nice too.

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Posted by zokissima on Friday, September 23, 2005 11:23 AM
It's this set:
http://www.militaryhobbies.ca/product.cfm?ProductID=3861

I did notice that some of the figs actually look like a set from a Dragon figure set...
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Posted by HeavyArty on Friday, September 23, 2005 11:34 AM
Yup, that is a combo of 3 of their other figure sets. Same basic figures in their other combo sets I mentioned above. I have the US figures in the Anti-Terror Operations in Afghanistan 2001 set. It has the US guys and the Mujahadin figures as N. Alliance working with them. The US figures are pretty good. They are not current figures due to their gear and weapons, but represent late '80s through early '90s figures pretty well. The biggest issue is their weapons. They have M16A1s and an M60 MG. Basically, all units had M16A2s by the late '80s and M60s were replaced with M240B by the early to mid '90s. They also wear the older PAGST body armor which was replaced with IBA around 2000.

Here is the set I have:


You can see a bunch of their figures and combo sets here:
http://www.greatmodels.com/~smartcart/cgi/search.cgi?termscat=ICM_Models+Figures

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  • From: Cleveland, OH
Posted by RadMax8 on Sunday, September 25, 2005 10:37 AM
I have a couple aircraft kits and the pilots in those are really detailed... might have to get brave and paint one up!
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