Bill Cross reviews LZ Models'' German Locomotive Coaling Man.

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Good review Bill. The actual figure looks better than the artwork implies. The head is very nice. I agree a bit static looking, but this will be perfect for inside some of the trains as you emntioned.

Why not build the figure to show the pose better? These are pretty simple figures with a few parts, so it shouldn't be too much of a hassle, and would display the figure really well.

Mario

The arm nob - shoulder socket idea is great! The head detail is super. A sharp figure.

Nice. Just as I suspected when I read the title, it could be used anywhere from WWII (I'm thinking Berlin rubble clearing, although mainly women did that) to a modern German worker. They really haven't changed much after all these years.

Thanks, everyone. Yes, Mario, I agree that the figure's pose COULD be modified by those who feel comfortable doing it, but I am not that artistic and feel that a review should be about what you get out-of-the-box. LZ has done themselves and us a favor by having a generic pose and clothing that would work in a wide variety of settings, not just railroads.

It's true the Trümmerfrauen (literally, "rubble women") who did much of the clearing of the streets of Berlin after the war were a case of "necessity being the mother of invention," but as the men were released from POW camps, they came back to a country that still needed a lot of manual labor, so I could see this figure in a post-war diorama for sure.