June 2024 Collectors Showcase New Figures, I started with displays from Dave Carpenter and Gary Dibello. Next, we look at some upcoming Warhorse Miniatures and Conte Collectibles figures.
June 2024 Collectors Showcase Dave and Gary
Dave Carpenter sent me this setup of his Davy Crockett figures. Here he has two flat-boats getting ready to take off. I like his method of doing water.
Gary Dibello sent me a series of photos of a Civil War display. As you can see in this photo Gary has the Union soldiers and the South soldiers fighting in a town.
The town is on a river with various factories. I have to find out how he did his buildings.
We look at the town center from a different angle.
A battle at the bridge. I love the two Confederates in the row boat. Gary said this display is taking up a guest room in his house. He has even added a skydrop.
Future Figures
Richard Conte of Conte Collectibles is showing various future figures. One of the figures is a Roman Centurion. Richard is thinking of doing this figure in plastic and metal.
Another figure that Richard Conte is showing is a Norman with a banner. He also has a Norman firing a bow. These would go well with his Warlord figures.
Warhorse Miniatures shows some Indians who are going be out shortly. This pose is a warrior kneeling and firing a musket. He has no shirt on.
Here is another pose from the Ojibwe Indian set. He is attacking with a tomahawk and has a different variation of the porcupine headdress.
The final pose I am showing is an Ojibwe War Chief. He has a feather headdress and has taken a scalp. Mike has done some exciting figures. We will let you know when they are available.
Wow! Great post, Paul. The set-up that Paul Carpenter has done looks like what I want my diorama to look like.
The Conte figs are great! Wonderful detail and great research is evident. He should issue in metal and plastic if he can. Painting these detailed figures would either be very satisfying– or my case – – drive me cookoo-for-Coco-Puffs! I hope fellow painters will submit photos here.
super Dio by Paul Carpenter .. very impressive
Detlef
Richard Conte’s character is also really good
Detlef
Warhorse Indians are also great again
Detlef
The two keel boats remind me of the film The Big Sky with Kirk Douglas and the Revenant two great films.
James Nixon is so right about ‘The Big Sky” movie. If you loved the Marx Pioneers and the Timmee figures of the 60’s and the modern Barzo keelboats/ bow cannon/ Native American figures…you will love this movie. If you watched it on TV as a kiddo, you would have wanted to re-create it with your toy sojers in the sandbox and the water hose (water bills were so low back then that parents encouraged the kiddos to open up the water hose and ‘spray off’).
Not to mention that the lovely Elizabeth Threatt is in the film. She was a unique beauty. Howard Hawks ( The Thing From Another World ’52) directed with confidence.
If you grew up wathing television when I did, you will recognize many faces. Arthur Hunnicutt (The Alamo, The Twilight Zone)…Dewey Martin (The Twilight Zone, and many other TV shows)…Kirk Douglas (36 at the time but leaping and swimming and rasslin’ like he is 26!).
The film is ahead of its time in that it acknowledges the concerns and traditions of Native Americans and points out the greed and averice of the settlers/pioneers- – but without being preachy or maudlin. The love story is very subtle and kept in the background. (Spoiler alert: If the Blackfeet Chief’s daughter,”Teal Eyes”, says we are married, I’m TOTALLY 100% married to Teal Eyes. I only hope she likes my “Marx Roy Rogers Fix-It Sategecoach” set-up when I take her home to meet my mom…).
Lots of good fun… and character bits…but also lots of good violence (for 1952).
I can’t believe this wasn’t shot in Technicolor and wide-screen technology. The river and mountain scenes are spectacular.
I would like to see a modern remake. I know this site is supposed to be about figures and collecting, so thanks for indulging me. Stad’s Stuff is still the original and best site!