Sunday, February 20, 2011

Zvezda's "Art of Tactic" expansions-soviet and german paratroopers!

Another expansion sets for "Art of Tactic" boardgame series of Zvezda are 2 new paratroopers for Soviets and Germans.

In the catalog this time a picture of german paras:

and a photo for soviet paras:

Both in 1/72 scale!

There are 5 paratroopers-sets:

The oldest one from Airfix produced in 1976:

Marketed especially in France from Heller.

One from Esci produced in 1989:
Reproduced from Italeri.

In the same year from Revell:


In 2009 a new one was produced from Caesar:


And last year the newest from Italeri in tropical uniform:


All these set have 40+ figures and 10 - 15 poses. The new Zvezda concept contents not even 10 figures with maximum 4 different poses in each set.

What will be the reaction of collectors and painters to those "specialized" sets?

Wait and see! (and read the forums!)

2 comments:

  1. The sculpts look good, they will get bought, that´s for sure.
    I´m more interested as to wether the samurais are new sculpts...I hope so:-D

    Cheers
    Paul

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  2. You're forgetting the Orion paratroopers. And Dragon has 2 sets of 8 figures as well, they come with Tiger II tanks.

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