Part Two New Plastic Figure News Conte Collectibles, the first news is the Set Two Romans have arrived at Conte Collectibles. Next Plastic Platoon is showing three items they have for sale. I have a Britains update on their artillery sets. Finally, we have news of the Atlantic revival.
Part Two New Plastic Figure News Conte Collectibles
Plastic Platoon Germans
Britains Civil War Update
Atlantic Western Figure Revival
Atlantic 54MM is about to commence some small production
a little teaser for you, with permission from Bravo International Dario (Owner of Atlantic Copyright), Serhiy and I will be launching a full range of 54mm Atlantic wild west figures as follows from the 1200 series
1201 Caccia Al Bisonte Buffalo Hunt
1202 Buffalo Bill
1203 Geronimo Apaches
1204 7th Cavalry
1205 Davy Crockett
1206 Apache Camp
1207 US Camp
1208 Kit Carson
1209 Toro Seduto Sioux -Sitting Bull
1210 Gold Rush
1211 General Custer
1212 Sioux Camp
1213 Stampede
1214 Outlaws and Sheriffs
1215 Cowboys
And 1216 Confederates
If we get the quality right, and I will post pictures first, if there is enough interest, we will be making a Limited edition of 100 sets, (simply because after that the mold will cease to be producing clean crisp figures please message me if you want to order some, the first samples will be ready soon-
Goldrush, and then 7th Cavalry.
You can have them in header bags like the ElastoWit figures or full reproduction of the Atlantic boxes (but will be around 8 Euro more). The material for the figures will be slightly softer plastic like the ElastoWit figures,
Best Wishes Anthony
There are several questions. First, there is the question of if Dario has the right to the Atlantic name. At this moment it is something we do not have to be concerned with as copyright is a complicated situation. The other question is will they redo old Atlantic poses or make new ones? We will wait and see.
It sounds like they are just making new temporary molds from original figures and using their existing casting process to make reproductions.
I guess they can make reproduction boxes, like some folks have made reproduction Marx playset boxes.
Where can you buy Plastic Platoon now? The guy in Russia that I used to buy from cannot sell direct. He did offer to sell through some complicated deal where I send the money to his daughter in Korea and some how the figures get to me. I said no thanks.
At the moment I have no idea about buying Plastic Platoon. talk to Weston at Chicago and see if you can help you.
If interested in Russian-made figures, a seller on eBay, arapetr-62 out of Armenia has been selling different Russian makers
Very informative posting, Paul!! Keep up the great work. Your postings are fun, as well as informative.
I think Anthony and Serhiy could save a lot of time and effort, by NOT bothering with trying to reproduce the boxes. A polybag with a basic header card would be enough. For me it’s the figures I’d want to have so I could finally paint/convert some soft plastic ATLANTIC figures. I have several ATLANTIC figures in the original packages. But all they do is sit in storage. I can’t devalue them by opening them and painting the figures.
So some re-pops in simple packaging would be welcome for me.
Gary
They selling the figures in bags eight Euros cheaper.
The boxed sets might be confused with originals unless they print ‘reproduction’ on the box or give some other indication that it is not an original Atlantic product. Hope that is their intent anyway.
Agreed. I would even be OK with NO artwork. The promotion/marketing gist is this: Finally, you can get re-pops of these classic figures in soft plastic. No need to feel bad about ripping open packages and painting the figures.
As I mentioned before, I have several sets (blister carded).
I can see that there are some great figs inside, but some are under others… so I can’t hold the actual figs and appreciate the sculpts. Much less, paint ’em up.
Atlantic had a great line of Greco-Roman figures…AND an awesome Colosseum.
It would be great if those moulds sill exist, and we could get some recasts.
I wonder what other posters think? And, perhaps, Paul can convey our sentiments to Anthony and Serhiy…?
The molds for the 1/32 scale ended up in Iraq and were destroyed. I have been on this story for years and have been the source for the information.
Not sure if I spot it correctly but looks to me like 1212 Siouxs Camp carries a price tag of DM 3,95 good ol’ German Marks. At that time Atlantic placed a lot of adds in German Mickey Mouse. Great memories.
Otherwise think 1216 Confederates never made it to production. Did the box art survive?
Not sure but think for 1:72 they used 7th Cavalry in grey.
1216 Confederates was never produced as far I red in the two Atlantic books.
I don’t think they did either. I’ve seen their 7th Cavalry in gray in 1/72 scale, I think; but that’s about as far as it went as far as I know.
There was a typo in an Airfix catalog years ago which listed a WW1 figure set in 1/32 scale. It was actually meant to say WW2. But it did create rumors for several years afterward.
REALLY wish Airfix had upscaled their 1/72 sets to 1/32 especially their D-Day German Gun Battery.
Might be possible with 3D scanning / printing technology.
Is possible with 3D but airfix copywrites still has owners so you will get in trouble unless you do it for yourself only ,I try and work with HO pretty good with Revell and matchbox HO japanese ,,resin material take for ever per figure to give sharp detail in rifles on cleaning process ,more costly machines would do a bit better .
I made some silicone moulds of a few Atlantic figures to make tin castings from them. Unfortunately I can’t make soft plastic versions.
The Confederates were the US Cavalry in Grey
They made a massive cock up on the box sets showing the painted ranges
They gave them black faces, painted up as buffalo soldiers
Something that the Confederacy wasn’t particularly known for …..
Buffalo soldiers has nothing to be with civil war and their name most likely given by Indians in late 1870s .
Here is some information on the Buffalo soldiers
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/buffalo-soldiers
Europeans very likely did not know the history and made that mistake. I remember being told that Britains had to send a German helmet to the designers in China to tell what it looked like.