Volker's most distinguishing article of clothing is his winter parka. This is the same type of winter parka found on 21st Century's Stalingrad Panzergrenadier, but is the later version of it with a camo material instead of field grey. The parka is suppossed to be reversable to white but Dragon's is not. Instead, Dragon has sewn white material only where it might show in places such as the hood and collar areas. I don't mind this too much since the parka looks good in it's camo incarnation and has excellent detail. It has metal buttons on the front and plastic ones on the sleeves. In other words, there's not much reason to reverse it to white.
He comes with a M-42 helmet with no decals. He has molded gloved hands that have individually articulated fingers like a bendy figure. These are very nicely detailed and offers numerous ways to pose his hands. He wears standard ankle boots with gaiters. His belt is made of a soft plastic and the buckle is a dark green. A nice thing about the belt is that it is adjustable so you can make it tighter if you choose to outfit Volker without his parka. On his belt are two sets of ammo pouches. There is the three pocket black ammo pouches with two egg grenades hooked on underneath, and a two pocket canvas ammo pouch. Both are non-functioning in that they do not open. A bayonet in sheath is hung in the back. Also included with Volker is a dark green breadbag which, unlike Ultimate Soldier breadbags, is made of real cloth and opens and closes.
Now on to the weapons. Volker's primary weapons are the Gew 43 rifle and a panzerfaust. The Gew 43 rifle is beautiful, with a printed wood grain and a removeable clip. The panzerfaust is also nicely detailed with all the instruction and warning text printed in the correct location. The head of the panzerfaust is removeable. Unfortunately, the range and aiming lever does not flip up like the Ultimate Soldier panzerfaust. Last but not least, you get an M1943 stick grenade. One thing to note and be aware of is that Volker's bendy hands have a terrible habit of removing the paint from the panzerfaust if he holds it for too long. His hands will also rub off the wood grain print on his rifle. I've been trying to think of ways to hinder this and for now I just put a small piece of paper between his hands and the weapon.
Volker's head sculpt is phenominal and has become one of my favorite headsculpts of all the figures I own. It is painted well and looks pretty realistic. His expression seems almost tired as if he has become complacent with the daily struggle of war.
And that wraps it up for Volker. This is a great figure that I'm definitely glad I bought.
