I've never liked the Italeri figures becasue the poses were too manequin-like, the heads were lousy and the faces a joke.. BUT: I still use them for parts, since many of them had good boots, and the US Marine torsos had accurate representations of USMC uniform shirt... Cut up and mixed with other figure parts, Italeri figures are still useful for me...
The figure here is a "Frankenstein" WIP with an Italeri USMC torso & legs, arms are Tamiya. Don't remember where the head came from. The upper torso was given a second pocket (hard to see here) from epoxy. The pistol is cut down from a submachine gun, and it's holster is a Tamiya item with the top ground off and a foil flap added.....