Photos from Chicago Toy Soldier Show by a French Collector, we have some photos from France. A collector from France Lancredore went this year for the first time. He said the show was amazing. He was looking for both plastic and metal. For one collector he was able to fine some Starlux. Lancredore was kind enough to share some his photos from the show.
Photos from Chicago Toy Soldier Show by a French Collector Photos
Photo of the show
Room Trading
Barzso Collectibles Norman Tower with its base, the pair are $260.00.
This is a photo of the figure boxes in Steve Weston’s room. We have coming in the new Replicants figures and we will be photographing them for you to see. I have seen a photo over on Treefrog of the mounted revenuers. What is interesting the figures are on Britain horses old stock.
Some more photos of the dealers setting for the show on Sunday. Lancredore did other photos but they are of the metal displays by various companies. He was amazed on the different types of metal. Bobby before you asked Lancedore did not do any photos of the Action Casting Viet Cong. I have not seen any photos yet of the figures. If anyone who bought the figures could you do a photo for us to share please.
Three of Lancredore’s photos are from our room. My wife looks more enthusiastic than I do. Maybe because I walked 25 or so miles up and down the hallways by the end of the day.
Thanks for the photos.
BOBBYGMOORE
Those are good photos of Len and his lovely wife, but unfortunately the photographer just caught the corners of Len’s brilliant “High Noon” diorama.
But he did manage to capture the towering majesty of Ron Barzso’s medieval tower.
And the other photos give a nice impression of what some typical rooms looked like. Multiply that by 150 (the number of dealers present), and you’ll have a sense of the show.
I assume the next issue of Playset Magazine will have a good color photo of the TSSD Vietnam War set-up, which looked pretty good, and I know Rusty was in Stengel’s Action Casting room taking photos of his new Vietcong figures and vigette of General Hancock at Gettysburg.
I forgot to mention that John Jr. announced for the upcoming Gettysburg Show (I assume in May 2017) he intends to release character poses of the other two Confederate Brigade Commanders who participated in Pickett’s Charge, since he’s already released a pose of General Armistead. One of the other two was Gen. Richard Garnett; I can’t remember the third (maybe Heath?). In addition, John Jr. is currently sculpting four new Confederate marching poses with interchangeable heads and maybe other parts to create multiple poses. John said he’s also aiming for those to be released at the Gettysburg Show.
John mentioned that some collectors were quite enthusiastic about his new Confederate marching poses when he announced them, while others thought marching poses were not that exciting. But John said he recognized (and I agree with him) that in the Civil War, the marching pose was one of the most common poses around, both before the battle, and even during the battle in attack scenes. And who, even in our insipid modern times, isn’t inspired by “Jackson’s Foot Cavalry”, marching at shoulder arms in long strides down the dusty roads of the Shennendoah Valley!
Thank you to the French collector for the nice photos.
I’m not, I hate marching poses, I have always hated marching poses. Isn’t it fitting that the only Blue and Gray survivor from my childhood is a marching pose? Toy soldiers revenege? Just punishment?
That was funny Ed.
In the French Foreign Legion, the operative philosophy was “MARCH OR DIE!”.
Hey.that is my movie Don.!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Yes I use then a lot too as was part of battle formation indeed.
Most doldier carry weapon on shoulder till last moment.
Only first two rank take off shoulder in line or colum battle formation.
FYI – Joe Baker, the master of playset photography, has photos of a few of the plastic dioramas from the show. He will be expanding the subject treatments soon. His website is playsetaddict.com. This website is just simply playset fun.
I hated marching figures. As a kid I traded all my marching Marx ACW and AWI Colonial figures for action figures (3 for 1). I must be Ed’s twin brother from a different mother.
Didn’t all kids hate marching figures? I mean who loved the turkey guy? Wasn’t he always the first guy killed if you used him at all? I remember get a blue and gray set and being disappointed in how many marchers you got. They don’t fight they march, egads.
We also have to look at the opposite side of the equation how few firing poses you got in the sets
I got 4 Yankee firing poses and 2 Rebs, but one Reb was shooting snakes. Got like 4 Rebs yodeling, 2 running, one getting shot, one standing guard , one officer, one flag guy and about 8 zillion marching. Plus one riding pose. Yankees were much better, more action type poses.
I just looked it up: Action Castings’ new Gettysburg Confederate generals will be Gen. Garnett and Gen. Kemper, to join the already released Gen. Lewis Armistead, along with the four new Confederate infantry marchers, with bedrolls.
Since John sponsors the Gettysburg Toy Soldier Show, I think his idea to cover all aspects of the battle and the most prominent characters with these boxed “Show Specials” is a pretty good idea.
Good photos on “Playset Addict” website of Len’s “High Noon”, Barzsos’ Medieval Tower, and the TSSD Vietnam War display, with a promise of more photos coming.
We have more photos that have coming in from Floyd Wilson which I put up later today. I have to some photos of items I purchased yesterday first.
Hey Paul, I don’t recall any French collectors at Schutzen Park or that Ukrainian Church in New Jersey, back in the day. Just a few NorthEast US guys looking for plastic toys.
And now we’ve gone global….LOL LOL…..bill
That was the early days where it was a local hobby. The hobby got more international when I attended the Plastic Warrior show. There were other Americans that had been to the show, but I was a regular. Laurie and I were the first Americans to the German Plastic show. These shows are great as you can see how collectors are the same and different. You will see one country like Germany that Timpo is very popular. You can find figures from your country cheaper. Or unusual variations I found at PW Space Patrol figures in steel blue. We have gone global it is nothing to laugh at it showing how are world is changing. I know Lancredore found some Starlux for a friend at the Chicago show
Actually as far I had read I can see more European and South American ,Asia traveling here ,even as dealer than US collector traveling abroad to toy soldier shows.
I do not know if any plastic toy soldier US dealers set table in UK plastic warrior in past 15 years or so wile Steve Weston ,Dana from Argentina-most metal with company (Beau Geste funded in 90’s , Figarti-China , there is dealer from Brazil and a fellow collector from Brazil that goes to Chicago and Hackensack often, Marcos Guazzelli-owner of Brinquedos web site and some others dealers international do travel here and set tables, least in Chicago and other few main shows.
In NJ I know of a dealer from Russia and other from Ukraine.
I can not recall other now quick…
There has been a collector from Brazil that has visited the show.
Yes I saw Marcos at NJ in 2014.Do not know after.
I know he went to Chicago on 2009 and 2013 and he is very passionate about, collecting metal and plastic.
Plus, we have regular contributors on this site from outside the US.
I was just making the point how the hobby has grown and expanded from a few collectors based mainly in the Northeast to worldwide, now.
I’m sure that there were collectors in Europe, like us, back in the early days. But it was much harder to do a deal with snail mail, international reply coupons and money orders.
Now, we have the internet and it has become a global hobby.
Just a mouse click away.
Yep internet had change all, and we did not even see it coming when first pup out!!
There were plenty collectors in Europe as well in US ,but many as well in past here were metal till after 70’s when plastic start to be thing of past in regular stores and your generation start the game as had grown up more.
So Europeans did same.
Plenty in Germany, France and UK as well Spain I know do this for long.
But thanks to internet we can chat ,email and pass pictures like never before.
The old list sales are long gone.And the many stores from before are gone too
One of my first dealers or collectors I bough figures from Germany was famous Andreas Dittman writer of many collection brands catalog, I remember receiving stad style list sales from him and buying else, the mail took longer back then too.
and cases came full of mini stamps all over ,funny.
I got figures from Spain same way and before as gift from Priest that brought me.
And then job trips,incredible,none to Germany, Spain or UK.