German Plastic Show December 2016 is run by our very good friend Peter Bergner. He has the show twice a year. Laurie and I have enjoyed the shows we have attended. this was the first show after Peter had closed his shop. People wondered if this closure would affect the show. There was no concern as there were dealer s who took over the space that Peter had used. Peter was there with his famous Euro boxes of loose figures. The attendants were treated to many surprises.
German Plastic Show December 2016 Photos T
This photo shows the crowd who had a lot of figures to look over.
One dealer had a nice array of boxed 1/32 scale Atlantic Western boxes. I found out from another source the price on the boxes were 60 Euros and up.
A close up of one dealer’s table, he has painted various figures including Armies in Plastic . Also he has painted the Cane Muskeeters.
Another dealer’s table, they have Starlux and comic figures.
We see Peter Bergner’s famous loose figure boxes. You are seeing two very long rows of boxes. I am sure some people spent hours pouring over each of the boxes.
Someone did a conversion of Timpo wagon into a hearse which would be great for your western scene.
This shows our very good friend Andreas Dittmann (on the right) with a French collector friend. The French collector is a big collector of western figures especially Apaches. This photo is actually from Bad Nauheim show. I included it as Andreas is a fixture at every show.
German Plastic Show December 2016 Ancient Sea Battle
One of the highlights of this massive sea battle. Our very good friend had it as Romans verus Carthagians. Our very good friend Andreas listed as Ben Hur, The figures are 40cm. I am amazed on what the person did.
Several survivors of a wreck ship trying to get to safety.
Thanks for all the interesting photos.
The prices on the 1/32 scale Western sets show that Atlantic is not cheap anywhere anymore.
And Peter’s famous loose boxes of figures are almost too much to bear. Many of us would love to go through them one by one, right down the aisle.
Atlantic made great figure sets. I still have Laws and Outlaws with hanged man and dragged man MIB as well as a few others. I sold off a bunch of sets years ago that I now wish I had kept. I just wish they were a little smaller than their generous 60 mm. They are too big for me to display with old Marx, etc. 54mm figures. Atlantic copies in a 54 mm size would be great for me.
Some of the Atlantic large cases could go very high.
Western set w hanging man always is very high.
Still I notice that right now if you Google mny of those sets s are more cheap on eBay than there.
The gatling gun double sets in box is listed as $50.00 right now.The big canyons passage set w VCF terrain is not easy to find in that condition.
It awesome what was done w the naval battle..
I did bought from aDittman in early 90s.
We did twice a swapp too.Some of my father figures went to him wile I got my first marolin, plastic merten and elastolin.
Back in the day of letter and bling list
Andy, I use Atlantic with the Marx 60 mm Cowboys and they fit fine.
There are plenty of 60 mm western figures that match.
Yes. I have mine set up with 60 mm Marx and Auburn. Would still like to see 54 mm copies.
Also wish someone would copy 60 mm Marx Town and Ranch cowboys and Auburn 60 mm cowboys in 54 mm. These have to be the best sculpting ever done in playset figures.
There are so many great Cowboy figures out there.
I agree about Auburn. I love them and all the pieces that came with them.
Unfortunately, most of the newer plastic Auburn cowboy figures are loaded with flash.
A real pain in the neck to get rid of. Apparently the molds were leaking by then.
I also like the AndyGard cowboys and I even have a couple. Those are excellent sculpts.
Actually, the original Tim Mee poses are really not bad either, but only in the original plastic. The Indians, too. The Pioneers are huge.
I mix all the larger stuff together and it looks just fine.
One of the coolest sets is the Remsea Rail Road workers set. I remember John Stengel
had a long wooden board, with railroad tracks stapled to it. He was working on a mounting a Marx ACW mortar onto a flat car when I showed up.
He showed me the Remsea poses with the train and I scooped them up and took them home.
We spent the day converting a bunch of ACW figures to man the tracks. We used a bunch of Centennial stretcher bearer repo’s to carry picks, axes, track rails and everything else.
We had plenty of miners and trappers in gray, that we head swapped kepis onto.
We managed to man the flatcar with a complete artillery team and the mortar with stacks of powder and balls
We spent 6 or 7 hours just enjoying setting it all up. Finding new pieces to add. Discussing different poses and conversions. It was so much fun, the time just flew by.
We were kids again for those few hours.
When it was finished, we took it all down for another day.
Sadly that day never came.
One of my best memories of John.
Bill.
I agree about your points and is so true about Aurburn cowboys,so far is been hard to complete by me a good full set in good condition mold. The poses and detail are excellent when in nice plastic version.
Intersting nice memory about Stengels.
I bought a bunch of Atlantic Western stuff for my younger brothers; I was never particularly fond of their style but my brothers loved them. I did like their commando set, though – there was something about the enthusiastic way they were running into combat and probably death with the way they were brandishing their weapons uselessly looking at the camera instead of where they were running that I couldn’t resist.
I really liked the Auburn figures, too – just were always too large as I tried to avoid anything too much bigger than 54mm coming up. I did make an exception with about anything Andy Gard – their ACW figures were awesome and I still believe their cowboys and Indians are among the best poses by anyone just wish they’d done more poses – and I never was much in to “Cowboys” and Indians, much preferred Cavalry and Indians. I made an exception with Andy Gard.
I only had a few Atlantic 1/32 sets, but I had thousands of 1/72 figures. The 1/32 sets never arrived in my city in large quantities. What I loved about Atlantic was that the figures had so much character, never mind the somewhat silly poses. Also, I don’t think there has ever been or will ever be, another Western range with such a wide scope. We got everything from them: two Indian tribes complete with villages, gold miners, cowboys and cattle, a Cavalry camp, a western town, a fort, Gatlings, you name it, Atlantic made it. The only thing they were missing was Mexicans.
And don’t forget Atlantic also made some pretty nice buffalo, a nice teepee, good canoes, excellent covered wagons (in the Oregon Trail set) a Kit Carson set with a raft, and a Davy Crockett set with bears (which had a 3-piece vingette on a single base depicting Davy fighting a couple of Alamo Mexicans, but, as you said, no individual Mexican poses). The longhorn cattle Atlantic made were as good as they come.
Davey and another Texan were fighting one Mexican. Davey was bayoneting him.
You’re right, Ed. I was quoting from memory, without bothering to walk down to the basement to check.
I have Atlantic Gold Rush figures set up with old Marx miners and trappers and Replicants in my Marx and Playmobil gold mines diorama. They are a little too big, but I will hide them if the government ever sends Official Playset Inspectors to my house. Also have a set of Barzso pack horses bringing in supplies. The horses are a great set.
A like all done by Atlantic.
They all have their flavors and positives or negative.
The figures were made in an era when toy soldiers were falling off toy market.Still they manage to attract youngs and old to then.
The western wagons sets are nice done.
In WW2 and modern they manage do a diversity of sets never touched by others.The indian army 14 POSES set is great.An army corp so used by British , yet so poorly represented by toy brands.Armor and cannon s some are realistic wile other pure mix but fun.
The best in armor are the M113 x vietnam era and 155 SP gun.
The 88MM Cannon is better than Marx…..
My thoughts…
Best…
I can remember 1/32 Atlantic western sets just sitting for long periods on the shelves of the local hobby store and also the local Sears stores. When I entered my teen years I “graduated” from plastic toy soldiers to plastic models. Tamiya, Monogram, Revell, etc. WW II items became my passion. Seeing lime green Cheyenne warriors, 7th Cavalry with those page boy haircuts, and crazy women with guns ready to kill somebody just reassured a young man he had properly moved on. I also remember most of those sets were $1 -3 each. Now, if you can find them, most of the sets are above $100. This is another reminder of why 16 year old boys don’t run anything of importance.