These figures are superb! I've said before and I will say it again, they are such natural poses and well executed it's like a quantum leap in figure design. It helps that they're not the usual straight forward loading or firing figures, but even those figures capture those poses in a way we haven't seen for a long time. Of the two figures below,
Erich von Manstein wrote:
the right hand figure is the better one. For me the telling point is his left hand. Some manufacturers would have had it hanging in mid-air, or straight down the body. Having the hand on or near the pommel of the sword is pretty much how it's done in real life.
The left hand figure is less satisfying. When moving in a close group with shouldered pikes it's important to control the pike so that it doesn't wave about all over the place - other soldiers generally don't like being slapped in the face with the point of a pike or have the butt of one shoved between their legs.
Still very promising figures well sculpted and with bags of character.