Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four July 2018 Atlantic, Villians Requests we will start off with two requests. The first is from Rick Fisher, the other is from me. Then we will go into the collection and look at some figures.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four July 2018 Atlantic, Villians Requests
Rich Fisher is looking for the following:
Hi- I am looking for the wheelbarrow to the Marx Construction playset & REISSUES of the Marx CW Centennial stretcher teams(need 4 sets in either color) & the Marx 54mm 7th Cavalry Marching troopers & Sgt,(any color need 8 marchers & 4 Sgt.s). Thanks- Rich
As to my request I am looking for more of these villians especially if they are poses I done have.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four July 2018 Atlantic, Villians Requests Atlantic and More
Atlantic made so many nice figures. Many were not action poses but are worthwhile to have. Here is one of the Soux Indians brushing his horse. the horse was an important part of their life and well taken care of.
Here we have a Payton cavalry soldier with guidon. As a child I had the other poses but not this one. I did not know this one exist until Laurie and I were at a flea market. We were walking the building when I spotted a set of figures. There was that pose. At the time I did not buy the set as I had the other poses and the price. I did a search and found one. The Payton cavalry were also in Gray and a different shade of blue.
Processed Plastic did series of Marvel Super Heroes. The figures are hard to find and were reworked as fantasy figures. These are Mexico knockoffs. I do not remember where I got them.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four July 2018 Atlantic, Villians Requests Villians
Since I use villians in the titles. I thought I would give two DC Super Villians. The figure on the left is Deadshot. On the right is the Riddler from the Batman and Robin movie. The Riddler was played by Jim Carrey
Don Perkins had posted this I removed the post as it may have exposed his email. That Atlantic 60mm vignette of the Indian brushing his horse, all on a single base, reminds me of why I like Atlantic so much.
It’s why at every show I attend I always keep a look-out for Atlantic 60mm, particularly their Old West and Ancients, both of which I thought were particularly imaginative and well done.
About 15 years ago, I recall overhearing John Stengel Jr. remark that the demand for vintage Atlantic plastic was increasing, and in consequence it was getting harder & harder to find them. Now, at shows, you sometimes can’t find Atlantic at all.
I’ve still got most of my own, much of which I obtained back in the 80s & 90s when you could still find Atlantic in hobby stores in nice, new boxes. That, plus a small hoard of Ancients (about 5 – 6 boxes of 60mm Greeks & Egyptians) I obtained from Bill Nevins a little more than a year ago after getting linked up with him on this site. But those kinds of quantities at affordable prices are getting increasingly hard to find.
In high school I retained my interests in history and the military, but moved on to the “more mature” plastic styrene kits. Realism and scale became very important, and the challenge to build and paint the kits would provide a nice diversion to studying for my classes.
I remember seeing the Atlantic sets showing up at the local hobby shop during this period (late 1970s). I had bought a HO US GIs set a few years earlier at Sears. While a little quirky they were nice additions to my Marx and MPC figures.
Out of curiosity (and the $.79 per box costs) I do remember buying many of the Ancient and Western sets in HO. The HO and 1/32 Ancients, West, political, NATO, vehicles and large playsets never did show up i n Columbus. Returning to the collecting hobby in the mid 1990s some of these sets could be found MIB with the usual dust in numerous hobby stores. The mounted 1/32 7th Cavalry, Laws and Outlaws, the Sioux Camp, and the 1/72 Greek Warfleet appear to be the most difficult to find, and are very expensive. Now that the collection is complete I am sure I will be sitting behind a table someday selling off the items.
Don, I agree with the unique poses. The 7th cavalry man baking loaves of bread is still one of the most unique poses I own. Considering armies move on their stomachs I am surprised there are no more “cooks” produced.