Photos Chicago Toy Soldier Show September 2017 Tom Lozowski has sent through Ed Borris photo he took of the show.
Photos Chicago Toy Soldier Show September 2017 Photos
This was the signage used by the Chicago Toy Soldier Show. I think it is a nice logo.
Ed Borris with his table at the show. On Sunday the show has several rooms on the first floor and lower floor. Ed was on the lower floor.
This was Ed’s displayof his conversion figures at the show. Ed told us he had sold 70 Alamo conversion figures prior to Sunday’s show.
Here is another look at Ed’s conversion figures. He puts a lot of imagination in each figure.
Photos Chicago Toy Soldier Show September 2017 Alaska Playset
Each year at the show they open a mint sealed playset. This year it was a Marx Alaska playset.
Rick Eber carrying the Alaska playset into the room. Craig Remington is to Rick’s left.
While Rick Eber is removing the staples from the box rusty Kern is filming the procedure. I am sure it will end up in one of his videos.
Contents of the playset revealed. The arctic accessories are in black. In the IGY set they are in an oragne. Off to the left you can see the cowboys in gray.
Here we see the Marx igloos and standard outdoor western accessories. On left the dog sled in dark brown.
Some of the tin litho pieces and the arctic animals. The Alaska playset came with a one level western town. The store front was design for a Alaskian town You can see pictures of the playset here.
In this photo you can see the kayak and sled in a dark brown.
Photos Chicago Toy Soldier Show September 2017 Spartacus
At the raffle they offered a Ron Lizorty designed box with Kirk Douglas autograph.
Several people waiting for the results. Steve Connell sitting behind the box. That’s Rick Keller behind Steve and to Rick’s left is Larry Lovely.
Photos Chicago Toy Soldier Show September 2017 Finally
Legions in Plastic Display that was in the lobby
Cool! I never was interested in the Alaska set until I saw Jim Clouse’s
excellent Battleboard set up. He did a terrific job on the terrain and it made me want to make my own.
I had Allan Roberts make me the street front and it came out perfect.
I had found a partial set with Eskimos, igloos, sleds and a bunch of other pieces. I already have tons of grey Miners and Trappers.
I’m going to add in some other pieces, that would fit the time period,
and make my display.
It’s funny how your interests can change over the years. When I first started collecting, it was strictly Fort Apache, Blue and Gray and Cowboys and Indians. Of course Alamo and any other western stuff was included. I stayed that way for many, many years.
Only over the last 3 or 4 years, have I come to appreciate some of the playsets and themes that once held no attraction for me.
I’ve picked up some Cape Canaveral’s, Airport sets, Space sets and now the Alaska set.
Anyone else have a change of habits?
I collect all humans sets from primitive to future w fantasy in middle .40 till 80 mm most.not in to bigger figures yet have some sets. I have dinosaurs but not much.Not much in to animals x now.
Will see 30 years from now if I’m still here.I guess I will be suffoucated in plastics.
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I used to collect anything and everything of a military nature – civilians and civilian accessories only if I could use them in my scenarios and I collected 1/72 and 1/32 scale.
When there was a resurgence of playsets and new figures – not to mention recasts – there was so much new stuff coming out I couldn’t afford to keep up; and then I realized as I started painting my 1/72 scale collection I really was only interested in painting figures from the 18th and 19th Centuries so why buy more than that. Now I find myself more selective even in my 1/32 scale collecting. After all, I am running out of space and time to get to painting all this stuff. The question is, where do I make the cut?
I kind of bounce around like a pinball between Wild West, FIW/American Revolution, WW2 (mostly Eastern Front), Zulu War and Medieval/Fantasy and American Civil War. I buy much more than I can realistically use and a lot winds up sitting in boxes most of the time.
I probably have more figures now than I did when I was a child, and I had quite a few then.
What gets me is, back then, I could fully enjoy having a battle on the floor with just my Marx Battleground set or two opposing boxes of Airfix or Matchbox or some Deetail or Timpo or whatever, but now, I have to have a table with all this scenery, all these accessories, and masses of soldiers set up, and then when it’s ready, I rarely actually play with it, I just look at it for a while then put it away.
I’m like you, Mark. I like setting up big battles with lots of trees, accessories, and formtec pieces on my battleboard. I look at it, sometimes moving a few parts of the battle around, have my wife and the neighbors look at it, and after a couple of months I take it down and set up something else. Yes, thousands of my soldiers spend months and years sitting around in boxes. But being addicted to toy soldiers, I keep buying more. When I was young, my parents got me a fair selection of Marx playsets and other toy soldiers, but no matter how many I had, it was never enough to remain satisfied.
Dittos with you two – but I like to take pix of the scenarios while I’m at it and “play” with them on photoshop.
Ok, we used to set them up and then take turns knocking them down with rubber bands. Last man standing wins! Pretty simple but lots of fun when you’re a kid (or grown-up).
One correction that’s actually Steve Connell sitting behind the box, not Craig Remington, that’s Rick Keller behind Steve and to Rick’s left is Larry Lovely. The guy to the left of Rick Eber in the picture where he is holding the box is Craig Remington.
thanks for the corrections. I have update the article.
Thanks for posting the pictures, Stad. First ones I’ve found on the internet.
Good to see Ed and some of the other guys from the hobby.
There have been photos of only the new items. I like to see photos of the people at the show. I will be doing photos at Hackensack.
Good seeing the pix of the show – particularly Ed and his conversions. I showed my wife the Conte lunette; that is one piece I regret passing on.
The show diorma of mine looks sad, I guess that happens though if 70+ guys get sold prior to the show. Oh well, I’d rather have the money than an impressive display on Sunday.
It’s all a matter of priorities, brother.
Still some nice stuff.
Well, I make them to sell them, so I guess I was successful. Now it’s time to start making them again.
Thanks for sharing the pictures. It looks like everyone had a good time at the show.