I will try to keep this post as clean as possible, given that under-18s can access the forum, and I'm CERTAINLY not posting photos.... 
I've just received a (plain brown!) box from Glendale, containing some new Prehm figure offerings that I ordered a little while back - including all four of the "naughty couples" that they've been promising for the last year or so!
Because no-one has actually seen these figures before release (their catalogues only show a very coy and discreet sketchy outline, like something seen through frosted glass...), I thought that a few folks here might like to know what they were like, before parting with any hard-earned for them - well, I can tell you that in a technical sense, they are very good indeed! They are beautifully sculpted (well up to Preiser standards, if not better), really nicely hand-painted (even with a bit of a flush to their cheeks....) and very - I mean VERY - accurately detailed!
Each figure pair is cleverly moulded in a single piece, so you can't separate them (and equally there is no assembly - so no worrying about getting the right peg in the right slot... sorry, I'd been quite good so far, hadn't I?) :-\
One couple is completely "au naturel", but the other three have various pieces of clothing in various degrees of disarray, implying a quick and opportunistic approach to the acts in question.....
Are they worth buying? Well, they are definitely not cheap - £30 per couple - but I can see them cropping up in very discreet places on many a layout as a little joke to reward the keen-eyed visitor. The price is high, but no worse than the best Preiser figures (and these are well up to those standards).
Size-wise, they are standard "Euro-G" and fit very well with Preiser and similar; they're probably around 1:22. The bits of clothing on some of them are generic modern - jeans etc (though mostly around ankles!) so could be used or repainted to cover most mid to late 20th century settings; only the completely nude pair would look right in anything much earlier than that.
Of course they are a gimmick - the sort of thing that the Germans love to make - but technically they are very high quality figures too.
Oh, and in the same box I got one of Prehm's Ice Cream Sellers with bicycle cart (absolutely superb!), and a set of hand-painted meals, foodstuffs and crockery also from Prehm - beautiful little stuff for restaurant cars and cafe tables - but you really don't want to hear about those, do you?
I'll take the "couples" along to Chris (Mole)'s open day on Sunday - if anyone wants a furtive look, we can meet round the back of the train shed....
Jon.
I've just received a (plain brown!) box from Glendale, containing some new Prehm figure offerings that I ordered a little while back - including all four of the "naughty couples" that they've been promising for the last year or so!
Because no-one has actually seen these figures before release (their catalogues only show a very coy and discreet sketchy outline, like something seen through frosted glass...), I thought that a few folks here might like to know what they were like, before parting with any hard-earned for them - well, I can tell you that in a technical sense, they are very good indeed! They are beautifully sculpted (well up to Preiser standards, if not better), really nicely hand-painted (even with a bit of a flush to their cheeks....) and very - I mean VERY - accurately detailed!
Each figure pair is cleverly moulded in a single piece, so you can't separate them (and equally there is no assembly - so no worrying about getting the right peg in the right slot... sorry, I'd been quite good so far, hadn't I?) :-\
One couple is completely "au naturel", but the other three have various pieces of clothing in various degrees of disarray, implying a quick and opportunistic approach to the acts in question.....
Are they worth buying? Well, they are definitely not cheap - £30 per couple - but I can see them cropping up in very discreet places on many a layout as a little joke to reward the keen-eyed visitor. The price is high, but no worse than the best Preiser figures (and these are well up to those standards).
Size-wise, they are standard "Euro-G" and fit very well with Preiser and similar; they're probably around 1:22. The bits of clothing on some of them are generic modern - jeans etc (though mostly around ankles!) so could be used or repainted to cover most mid to late 20th century settings; only the completely nude pair would look right in anything much earlier than that.
Of course they are a gimmick - the sort of thing that the Germans love to make - but technically they are very high quality figures too.
Oh, and in the same box I got one of Prehm's Ice Cream Sellers with bicycle cart (absolutely superb!), and a set of hand-painted meals, foodstuffs and crockery also from Prehm - beautiful little stuff for restaurant cars and cafe tables - but you really don't want to hear about those, do you?
I'll take the "couples" along to Chris (Mole)'s open day on Sunday - if anyone wants a furtive look, we can meet round the back of the train shed....
Jon.
