New Call to Arms Figure is Coming

11 Responses to New Call to Arms Figure is Coming

1. pjr51 says:

   October 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM

   Photos are now up on Steve’s site

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2. Brian Johnson says:

   October 13, 2013 at 6:19 PM

   Two Good poses,two USELESS poses.

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   • admin says:

     October 15, 2013 at 1:51 PM

     Brian
     Very doubtful that Call to Arms will do larger scale British paratroopers off the 1/72 scale figures. The only reason they did them at all was the mold was laying around at factory where they get their figures done.

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     • Brian Johnson says:

       October 15, 2013 at 5:22 PM

       You sure know how to bust a guy’s bubble,LOL,I would KILL for re-pro 54MM figures of the “Missing” Superdeetail Britains Paras and I’m sure if CTA did them they would be raking in the cash.

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3. Don Perkins says:

   October 14, 2013 at 9:22 AM

   I would have said there’s just one strange, useless pose, and that would be the guy going forward with his rifle flared out to the side. What is he supposed to be doing? Who would carry his weapon like that, whether walking or running? He certainly doesn’t fit into any Napoleonic formation I can imagine. Since “Call To Arms” just puts four poses in each of its sets, you would think it would be easy to come up with all good poses. I see the poses of these Napoleonics are in tan. I gave up a long time ago trying to make sense of “Call To Arms” color selection. On the positive side, of course, the figures are up to CTA’s usual standards of being highly detailed, historically correct, and well sculpted.

   For anyone living near metro-Detroit, note this coming Saturday (October 19) is the toy soldier flea market which Rick Berry sponsors in the parking lot of Michigan Toy Soldier Company. Any collector is welcome to set up a table at no charge, right in the parking lot. There’s usually a pretty good collection of local collectors selling stuff, and a pretty good collection of local collectors buying stuff. I’m going to lower my prices on things I didn’t sell at OTSN and the last Michigan show, and see if I can sell the remainder.

   After this flea market, the next show in these parts is the Michigan show in January, and then it’s off to Indianapolis in March. Collectors should be aware that unlike OTSN, which has strong representation in both metal and plastics, Indy is 90 – 95% all plastic.

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   • Brian Johnson says:

     October 14, 2013 at 1:45 PM

     Yes if CTA is just going to use 4 poses to a set wish they would at least do a Set 1 and a Set 2 of a subject.I’ll bet if they do a 54MM set of their 1/72 British 1970’s troops they won’t upscale the 4 “Missing” Superdeetail poses,LOL.

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4. Don Perkins says:

   October 14, 2013 at 9:31 AM

   I have to correct myself. The new CTA Napoleonics appear to be in gray, not the tan which CTA had used on several of their previous Napoleonics. But for a time period which had some of the most colorful uniforms of any war ever, I think gray is still a pretty uninspired color selection. As has happened in the past, I suspect someone like Hobby Bunker will have CTA do a special run in red, blue, and/or green for the American market.

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5. Peter Evans says:

   October 15, 2013 at 9:27 AM

   Let’s face it Bill Farmer has absolutely no idea and his scuplting and posing are dreadful

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   • Don Perkins says:

     October 15, 2013 at 11:52 AM

     I assume you’re being facetious/sarcastic. As I said in my earlier post, “On the positive side, of course, the figures are up to CTA’s usual standards of being highly detailed, historically correct, and well sculpted.” It’s just that I agree with the other poster who found at least one of the new poses “useless”. What, in your opinion, is that figure supposed to be doing? What is he supposed to be used for? Why is he carrying his rifle in such an odd manner?

     And since you seem to know Bill Farmer (I don’t —- Is he the designer/sculptor/owner/president of Call To Arms?) perhaps you know the answers to these questions, which have all been commented on in various U.S. hobby publications:

     1. When CTA released their otherwise excellent English Civil War sets, why did they run both sides in the same color, with no alternating color to distinguish Parlimentarians from Royalists?

     2. When CTA ran their 24th foot Zulu War figures in tan, did it surprise Mr. Farmer that American collectors and distributors requested the figures be re-run in red, which were then sold at a premium price?

     3. When he runs American Revolution Continentals, Militia, & Redcoats, along with all his Napoleonics, in either tan or gray, does he not notice the toy soldier reviews that inevitably comment on such mismatched colors? Why does he keep doing the very same thing? Is the U.S. market so totally inconsequential for him? Does he assume all collectors paint their figures, so the plastic color makes no difference to anyone?

     As someone who always buys multiple boxes of all the CTA releases, I really wish we could get an authoritative, specific answer to these questions.

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     • admin says:

       October 15, 2013 at 1:49 PM

       Dom
       Peter Evans is no fan of Farmer’s work. If Farmer was interested in a project he did great work, if not disappointment. Farmer did a number of historical mistakes on the figures he has done. As to your other questions those are the responsibility of Dougie, the owner of Call to Arms. He did the figures in those colors as he figure people would paint them. Despite being told that most Americans do not paint their figures Dougie kept doing them in the wrong colors. People have tried to talk to him with no luck. He will only do 4 different poses to a box of 1/32 scale. He claimed he lost money when he did more than 4 poses.
       I was surprised that he did figures after all these years.

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6. Don Perkins says:

   October 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM

   Well, I guess that clears that up. Sorry I put the wrong interpretation on Mr. Evans’ comment.

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