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Rob
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I use Del Prado figures with my KC 1914 French and they work together perfectly. Same size, and while the Del Prado isn't as nicely painted, they work fine in a crowd. The Del Prado price-point makes them great for filling out numbers or just as another figure in the scene. -- Al
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I agree that Del Prado sculpts and paintings are not as good as KC, and some DP are really ugly,so their quality varies a lot from one item to another( I hope so, considered the price difference with KC!{sm4}).
But some DP, like the one in the photo, are at the KC level ( in some of them is required few easy retouches).
The problem about Del Prado is that they do only one figure per uniform type, so useful for filling out numbers or adding a new figure as you say.
Honesty, about the painting tones, I often prefer DP not so bright colours as they result more realistic in my opinion.
Thank you Rob, sometimes it happens that I can take a decent photo, but not so often, haha
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PanzerAce1944
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Weren't Del Prado figures made by K&C at one point. ? I thought I read this somewhere. ^&confuse
Poppo
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Yes PA, you are right. Del Prado was one of KC' s clients , this is also written in KC official site .
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villagehorse
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No problem with size, but painting not quite as good as K&C and as stated usually only one per uniform so not much chop as a Army builder. I had 60 figures a few years ago, but sold them. The main thing for me that let's the figures down is the base they stand on, sought of makes them a statue in my eyes, which detracts from the figure itself. There a quite a few though that I would love K&C to duplicate. Cheers, Robin.