Re: Battle for the Barrikady Gun Factory, Nov.'42
These are quite good pictures. The FL figures with the FOV PzIV look pretty cool to me.
I'm in no way a rivet counter, to me it 's what looks good that counts and these figures and tank look cool together.
I wonder if FL figures would go well with FOV in general?
I think this is an important point - it's what looks good to the individual collector that really matters. If you think our figures look good with the FOV Panzer IV, then you would feel that they would go well with FOV vehicles. So in the end it all comes down to personal preference and what may look right to you. For many this may be a bigger factor in their collecting than what may be strictly accurate or not.
In terms of the figures, the FOV figures that I've seen are too small next to our figures. See the image below of a 1/32nd FOV figure next to one of our figures...
In regards to the FOV Panzer IV, though it might look good (and I certainy agree - from a purely aesthetic point of view, the images do look good), in reality our figures are too big relative to the actual size of a Panzer IV. That can easily be seen by the size of the FOV figures which are scaled to go with their AFV's. But perhaps if you are used to seeing figures/afv's scaled like this, it looks right/good. Again, how it looks to you is really all that matters as the individual collectors are the ones who have to look at something on their shelves.
First Legion as a company have tried and will continue to try to be as accurate as we can be. We'll never be perfect, there is no such thing, and given time I'm quite sure we'll gaffe something up pretty badly. But our perspective on such debates as "toy soldier" or "scale model" is that we see no reason why you can't have both in a single product.
Just closing the loop, to us, the images below are what looks right and this is what is based on historical reality as far as we can tell. So we'll continue doing what we're doing with our WWII range and hope that you all like it and, if you don't, that you at least appreciate the amount of research and effort that went into it. Finally, there is no reason why the below images can't look right and the image with the FOV panzer IV can't "look" right as well. That's entirely up to the individual collector and is really a separate issue from what "is" right. And, for many, the latter may not matter much at all anyway.
Regards,
Matt
