Plastic Figure Showcase Part One Andy Keliar, Greg Liska, Pictures we have a number of items to share. First Andy Keliar shares his conversion of the Revell Medicine Wagon. Next Greg Liska is looking for some figures. I will end it with some items floating in the collection.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part One Andy Keliar, Greg Liska, Pictures Andy Keliar
Here are some pics of a wagon I just finished up.
Greg is looking for some figures. Here is what he said. I’m looking for metallic blue artillerymen for my Feds. See the attached pic. You all know the poses. In addition to the artillerymen, I’ll happily take the colorbearers in metallic blue from either side (Fed or Reb, both shown in pic) as long as they are metallic blue. I obviously don’t need the flag to be attached. I’m trying to avoid buying a lot of infantry to go with them or paying $25 to get 2 artillerymen. I’m open to having to buy some sort of lot, if it has a better ratio than that for increasing my artillery count.Plastic Figure Showcase Part One Andy Keliar, Greg Liska Pictures Photos
Here we have two interesting figures. The figure on the left is a Charbens naval officer. Charbens did a set of figures and he could possible be historical figure. Do you think he could be used in American Civil War. The set also has Admiral Horatio Nelson, One other thing this is a reissue of the original figure .
The other figure is from Russia and is of a Russian knight. I do not have the company who made him but I am sure someone does. Interesting aside, he had been placed many years ago at toy coop and did not sell. I found him in a box and I am placing in the collection.
The figure is the Beton large jockey I have him on the standing horse as I am out of the running horse.
The russian IX-XIII warrior is part of 5 poses set plug in weapons and banner sold made by factory Progress ,originally sold in window nice lithographed box then in bags early come with some parts painted.
The same factory did a nice 60 mm semi flat but not flat 8 poses WW2 soviet army in 90s i think call (Brest-Litovsk Fortress defenders) and also sold under other name .
the factory stop producing in 2005.
I bought both sets plus others russian sets from Kent Sprethers in 90s who was first selling the in US via his main supplier Russian .Thanks him i got introduced to new era of russian makers/production.Never cheap but quite interesting .
Progress factory start making plastic in late 70s till 2005 their main rest set are typical URSS-Soviet era flat figures in WW2,POST WW2and medieval wars .
Andrey may correct me or add infor..
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No. It’s not original Progress (which have solid bases). It’s copie from ’90. More crude details and terrible molded weapon.
Charben figure-Well i saw it sold as HN before too but his uniform is fartoo posterior era ;from mid-late 1800 definitely and could be used as US or other naval officer as well as vey generic,for some reason i miss that reissue set in my collection when come out and now seems to be MIA everywhere.
Andy awesome repair conversion ideas as usual.!!!!Too bad you can not use the POLA G scale brand carriages and western stagecoach as are excellent and i often seen then at train show cheap.
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Thanks, Erwin. The POLA buildings and wagons are big at G scale, 1/22, but could be scaled down to 40%. Good idea. I never really used HS math until now!! 🙂
Andy, a flash of brilliance, up – scaling the medicine wagon! Great job. I’m looking to collect that entire Revell series of wagons. I have the stage Coach but it is missing a few parts.
Thanks, TD. Don’t you wish they made the series in 1/32 scale? The Medicine Wagon can be copied because most of the pieces are pretty flat. Curves, like on the covered wagon would be pretty hard. Don’t you do 3D printing? Can these models be copied in larger 3D? Probably cost prohibitive though.
I have researched the Revell western wagon kits because they are such accurate and highly detailed models. There is a website which has a very good history about their production. Unfortunately the models are kind of hard to find, but you are correct that they would be ideal for scaling up to 1/32 on a 3D printer.
Someone with a 3D printer could scan the model parts, re-scale the files & print out the parts. I think the high cost would be acquiring the scanner , printer and software. The plastic filament would be comparatively inexpensive.
I have about 5 sets of the Russian Knights and over 300 of the semi-round Soviet WWII figures. They were everywhere when the wall came down and I travelled all over Eastern Europe as I was stationed in Germany at the time. I was just getting (back) into toy soldiers then, a little at a time. I picked up the big load of WWII soldiers when I got back to the US from a company called Rus-sell, or something very close to that. It wasn’t as cheap as picking them up in flea markets in Europe, but still very cheap. I think I paid about $25 for 100 figures. I thought that the opportunity to have a bunch of Russians made BY Russians was too cool. I’d seen the Russians Knights in box and half-painted and I’d seen the WWII soldiers in box, but I have not seen them painted. I think they would paint up pretty well.
Only parts painted i had seen in soldiers were face ,boots and some weapon s in early sets .The red banner often got loose.The poses in many are extracted from typical flat poses sets. Interesting the way Greg acquired then when Red bloc fell.
I do got hand in many medieval set years after on cheap price bulk lot from my Russian supliers.The WW2 sets I’m happy w one as not quite neat or detailed plus not like that era repeated poses.I agree as been first coming off standard flat from Russia and made then a curius set to me as well.
The medieval poses resemble a bit some jecsan poses .In warriors i had seen crude hand painted figures ,but loose ,never in box so i can not confirm if factory sold as that or else .Only w face painted in factory packs .The base in particular stads pictures looks odd to me and not original
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I agree. The base does not look like it’s the original. I haven’t looked at the ones I have (which are mixed in with the Steven’s Hobbies or whatever you want to call them guys), but I noticed right off it looked different. Might be repaired, but most likely a copy of some sort.
The ‘extra’ flag bearers I had got their flags cared out and they are just cradling their PpSh-41. Looks totally natural. I had picked up so many that I culled back, getting rid of the extra officers and wounded man firing pistol.
Love see those conversion ,wonder if wounded could had been change to artillery antitank or mortar pose too.Officer are always a problem .lol
Andy – I love the wagon! Lots of possibilities with that. Some annoying character like the snake oil salesman from The Outlaw Josey Wales.
YES!!! I have a Clint head on the Austin Miniature figure; it wouldn’t take much to have him spitting his tobacco juice on the guy’s lapel!!
I’d like to ‘amend’ my ACW artillerymen needs. I’ll take a lanyard puller in any color. I could use about 5 of those.
Sorry Greg i had not ignore your request ,jut that i have none,i’m sorry!!
Great Job on the medicine wagon Andy, excellent technique for others to copy and make things !
Thanks, Mark. I’ve been experimenting with my $100 HP color copier for probably the last year or so making background scenes and scenes for inside plastic and wood buildings without factory litho. I have a two dimensional copy of this wagon in 54mm. Since I finally found an unassembled model, I was able to do a 3D copy. Copier can shrink or enlarge from 25% to 400%, so I will also be looking to shrink kits. Problem is finding complete kits for less than a fortune to copy. I use a card stock to make the copy and then glue it on balsa wood. Cutting it all out with scissors and knife takes time, but I’m really pleased with the results. Hope you will try it. There are a lot of great paintings of cowboys, etc. online that I adjust to 54mm and use inside and outside of buildings. Inexpensive way to populate my dioramas with really great looking colored poses.