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| Subject: | Re: OT: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? |  |
| Date: | May 9, 2003 |
| From: | Gary Binder | |
First, Conte. The plastics are soft plastic castings of many of their metail figures. Personally I like them. God news: nice detail and generally accurate uniforms and weapons (for the WW2 figs that I have). Bad news: the plastic is VERY soft which makes flash removal a challenge. Right now I'm working on about 20 Conte US paratroopers for a display. On some I've substituted heads or weapons from Airfix multipose figures to get better details, but so far most look OK to me. I primed them in Tamiya acrylic and haven't had any problems with other acrylic paints sticking.
Wm Britains: adding some tanks (Pz IV) and artillery (US 75mm HOW, US 105mm How). Newer figures are generally good, but a little expensive.
King & Country: quite expensive. Aimed at collectors, not gamers or whatever. Vehicles are not always "modeler accurate" but they are well done and Andy likes to cast them with lots of stowage. US and German figures look good, but generally run around $15-20 per man, but are beatifully painted. These are closer to 60mm scale than 54mm. Some of their USMC and Japanese figures were done in plastic by BMC Toys as their Iwo Jima playset complete with Sherman and LVT. I think this is still available here and there.
21st Century: they produce soldiers in 1:6, 1:18 and 1:32. The 1/32nd "32X" line is resonably priced, figures are OK but a nice selection of vehicles and aircraft. Mostly ETO so far, but rumored to be expanding if they can solve corporate financial problems
Forces Of Valor: A new 1/32nd line coming this summer. Intial offerings will be ETO and Gulf War. Prototypes look very promising. To be offered in "toy" grade and "hobby" grade.
Hope this helps |
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 | OT: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? - Peter Ong - Apr 30, 2003 |
| . . . Re: OT: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? - Jamie Tainton - Apr 29, 2003 |
| . . . Re: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? - Ed Kusiak - Apr 29, 2003 |
| . . . Warning to above post: LONG as usual :-) - Peter Ong - Apr 30, 2003 |
| . . . Collecting is passive, modeling is engaging - Steven Brown - Apr 30, 2003 |
| . . . Re: OT: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? - Damon Agretto - Apr 30, 2003 |
| . . . . . . Thanks everyone! - Peter Ong - May 1, 2003 |
| . . . Re: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? - MSW - May 3, 2003 |
| . . . . . . Re: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? - John David Blair - May 12, 2003 |
| . . . Re: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? - Richard E. Slusher - May 7, 2003 |
| . . . . . . Re: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? - Karla - Aug 6, 2003 |
| . . . Re: OT: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? - Gary Binder - May 8, 2003 |
| . . . . . . Re: OT: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? - Damon Agretto - May 8, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: OT: Collecting other hobby items---your thoughts? - Gary Binder - May 9, 2003 |
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