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Hey guys, was browsing a couple of online stores and saw the "21st Century Ardennes Infantry open long coat" figure as seen here: http://store1.yimg.com/I/badcattoys_1852_3717724

I've been looking for a 1:18 figure with a long coat for a custom figure, and was wondering about this figure. Is the coat removeable? And if not intentionally removeable, is it a seperate sculpted piece(perhaps glued on)? The sculpting on it is somewhat illusive in the pic, it looks like one piece from top to bottom and that'd be extremely difficult to sculpt as part of the upper torso I'd imagine(at least for manufacturing purposes). Also the switchable arms suggests that the coat can be removed.

**Edit**: Oh and does anyone have a link to some better quality pics of a loose figure?

Hello,
yes the coat is removable but the sleeves are part of the arms...so only the trench coat part comes out you will have no sleeves unless you use the figure arms for your custom too. So if you use the arms and the plastic removable coat you could add those to a armless figure and make it look cool...hope you get the meaning of this explanation.

take care,
HOOAH!

Also, the figure comes with three sets of arms, so you can make a figure wearing a great coat, or you can remove the coat completely and make a figure that is just wearing a german uniform. Some of the arms have great coat sleaves and some just have uniform sleaves.

75th Ranger wrote:Hello,
yes the coat is removable but the sleeves are part of the arms...so only the trench coat part comes out you will have no sleeves unless you use the figure arms for your custom too. So if you use the arms and the plastic removable coat you could add those to a armless figure and make it look cool...hope you get the meaning of this explanation.

take care,
HOOAH!

Thanks for the info! The arms aren't worrying me, I can either make new joints or alter the existing ones. Probably have to extensively sculpt the custom figure's torso any so I may just sculpt it from scratch(it's a fairly simple sculpt) in which case I can just use whatever kind of joint 21st has included.

I bought a bunch of the closed coat figures when they were available at WM and use them for different types of soldiers after learning that the coats were removeable.

Oh the closed coats are removeable too? Nice.

bluesparrow wrote:Oh the closed coats are removeable too? Nice.

Whoa - not that I know of but maybe. Anyone?
I guess I could try to wrestle one off a guy but I'm pretty sure you can only take off the open coat (who with 3 sets of arms may be the best XD figure ever all things considered )

Sorry guys but the cost does not come off this figure. The lower half of the coat is soft rubber and the upper part just above the belt is hard plastic or whatever these bad boys are made of. I've got 6 of this figure and 2 open coat, I like the closed version better.

My mistake. It is the open coat and not the closed coat figure that has the removable coat.