Gordon's Latest Building is Awesome!!! (2 Viewers)

Louis Badolato said:
Arnhem44mad,

As Alex pointed out, Andy mentioned he wanted to do several different 3-D production buildings which could be used to make a French or Dutch Village useful from Napoleonic through WWII. I don't know if this is one of the prototypes for that concept, but if so, imagine 5-6 other different buildings of this nature to be mixed and matched with this one to make excellent displays. I hope Alex is right!
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Me too!!!
Datz kind of da mad hing a know!:eek::D:D:D:D
 
Louis Badolato said:
Arnhem44mad,

As Alex pointed out, Andy mentioned he wanted to do several different 3-D production buildings which could be used to make a French or Dutch Village useful from Napoleonic through WWII. I don't know if this is one of the prototypes for that concept, but if so, imagine 5-6 other different buildings of this nature to be mixed and matched with this one to make excellent displays. I hope Alex is right!
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But would many collectors be willing to dump a sizeable chunk of their toy soldier money on buildings? I would imagine the buildings would cost as much as several figures combined...

just wondering... Jim
 
Pierre, Brad,

On the poster it would indeed appear that Pétain may well have appeared on posters outside the unoccupied zone.

See the following (badly-written) essay from the 1990s by a John Fletcher on the use of posters and other propaganda material featuring Pétain:

http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/pmt/exhibits/2498/Vichy.pdf

From a different angle here's an interesting article from various Canadian perspectives on Vichy:

http://www.erudit.org/revue/hp/1978/v13/n1/030484ar.pdf

(Canada, USA etc recognised Pétain but later there were Canadian troops at Dieppe, not to mention former Vichy French troops from Africa involved in the various Italian and French campaigns).

Anyway, it looks like a great building, and would grace any French wartime diorama.
 
jac28 said:
But would many collectors be willing to dump a sizeable chunk of their toy soldier money on buildings? I would imagine the buildings would cost as much as several figures combined...just wondering... Jim
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Many of us like to set up scenes or dioramas, so the buildings really are a good investment. They add a "feel" to the scene and add scale to the soldiers.

Many of the most popular toy soldier themes are based in Europe, which is heavily urbanized. In Napoleonic times, WW1, and WW2 combat often took place in or near towns and armies have used towns for sheltering troops.

I agree that the K&C buildings aren't cheap, but they are a worthwhile addition to many scenes.

Gary

PS - I hope the beautiful building shown DOES get into the K&C line up!
 
Jim,
Nice to see you posting on this site, enjoy it and have a good time here, there are a lot of great guys on this site.

As far as buildings, I sell loads of them, everything from custom made ones that Nick Nasta does for me, to kits I build and paint to ready made ones from CTS, Conte, Formtech, Build A Rama, JG, etc. Bottom line is you can't have enough buildings.

One of my customers has a huge town he built using loads different manufacturers buildings, everything from Conte to K & C to B & T (remember those, they were terrific for the short time they were around) and it looks incredible all set up loads of K & C figures and vehicles.........
 
jac28 said:
But would many collectors be willing to dump a sizeable chunk of their toy soldier money on buildings? I would imagine the buildings would cost as much as several figures combined...

just wondering... Jim
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Most of the buildings I have seen in the Toy Soldier collecting industry have been pretty affordable, usually about the price of one or two sets of soldiers, so I imagine if these are mass produced, they will be made affordable.
 
jac28 said:
But would many collectors be willing to dump a sizeable chunk of their toy soldier money on buildings? I would imagine the buildings would cost as much as several figures combined...

just wondering... Jim
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Jim, I feel there is a strong demand for buildings etc in this hobby. However K & C seem to want big dollars for their versions which has allowed a niche for other guys to make them for sale.
 
I'm not so worried about buildings myself.I really admire the dio's of all modellers on here,but i think troops and figures look stunning in display cabinets.I think i'd prefer to spend my dosh on the figures myself.

Rob
 
Rob

I dont know about that - a building brings a display more to life and really sets the stage - if you kno what I mean? I think we just have to carefully review what you buy and how can it be used in other ranges you collect.

I own some Dept 56 - but, would rather have K&C - more value to the collecting all from the same source. I do love Andy's dio stuff - I wished I had bought those "knocked out" vehicles when they came out in the WWII range.

Ron
 
Hi Guys,

I thought you might like to know a wee bit of background about the above mentioned building.

First of all, it’s a joint Neilson Brothers effort...I designed and built the actual model itself...Gordon did the fine paint job...and I probably “mucked it up” by adding the “Petain” poster and the Free French “graffitti”.

That being said I have to disagree with some of the comments on the Petain poster...Images of the Vichy leader were fairly common throughout ALL of France during the occupation 1940-44.

And as the title of the picture says “SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY JUNE 1944” it’s also clearly not “Normandy at the end of the war” ...there were many long months of hard fighting before that day came.

Thank you for your appreciation of our humble efforts.

Best wishes to one and all and...happy collecting!

Andy C.
 
King & Country said:
Hi Guys,

I thought you might like to know a wee bit of background about the above mentioned building.

First of all, it’s a joint Neilson Brothers effort...I designed and built the actual model itself...Gordon did the fine paint job...and I probably “mucked it up” by adding the “Petain” poster and the Free French “graffitti”.

That being said I have to disagree with some of the comments on the Petain poster...Images of the Vichy leader were fairly common throughout ALL of France during the occupation 1940-44.

And as the title of the picture says “SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY JUNE 1944” it’s also clearly not “Normandy at the end of the war” ...there were many long months of hard fighting before that day came.

Thank you for your appreciation of our humble efforts.

Best wishes to one and all and...happy collecting!

Andy C.
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Would you please tell me with which comments you are in a disagreement?

Obviously, as usual, you did not read all the posts that I made and the one that you read, you did it wrongly.

My first post was not a comment but an interrogation and my second post was to (1) thank Brad for the answer and (2) agree that a poster of Pétain was making sense (i.e. wikipidia article).

Moreover, for me, June 1944 is closer to the end than to the beginning of the war, no matter how many long months of hard fighting were still to come before May 4, 1945. To my knowledge, there were many long years of hard fighting before June 1944.

As some of my prior posts were deleted, I want to say that I have the right to disagree with Andy C. Neilson about a post in which he disagrees with me. I beleive in the freedom of speech and expression and I am formulating my replies in a polite and respectful way.

Pierre.
 
King & Country said:
Hi Guys,

I thought you might like to know a wee bit of background about the above mentioned building.

First of all, it’s a joint Neilson Brothers effort...I designed and built the actual model itself...Gordon did the fine paint job...and I probably “mucked it up” by adding the “Petain” poster and the Free French “graffitti”.

That being said I have to disagree with some of the comments on the Petain poster...Images of the Vichy leader were fairly common throughout ALL of France during the occupation 1940-44.

And as the title of the picture says “SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY JUNE 1944” it’s also clearly not “Normandy at the end of the war” ...there were many long months of hard fighting before that day came.

Thank you for your appreciation of our humble efforts.

Best wishes to one and all and...happy collecting!

Andy C.
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No price?????:eek::eek:
Does that mean its free???????:D
Yeah right, that's not in Andy's volcabulary!!!:D:rolleyes:
 
Well Andy ??

Hello...knock knock Knock on the computer screen....Andy??
 
Capitolron said:
Rob

I dont know about that - a building brings a display more to life and really sets the stage - if you kno what I mean? I think we just have to carefully review what you buy and how can it be used in other ranges you collect.

I own some Dept 56 - but, would rather have K&C - more value to the collecting all from the same source. I do love Andy's dio stuff - I wished I had bought those "knocked out" vehicles when they came out in the WWII range.

Ron
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I see your point Ron,however there are of course only limited amounts of sets you can use with a building at one time without it looking unrealistic.But i am Biased of course,i have a cabinet for Allies,another for Germans and another for vehicles.They just look so good together i don't like splitting them up for a dio!:rolleyes:

Rob
 
My guys want combat ! They need combat ! :eek:

I display my stuff for some action and I guess thats why I shy away from parade figures - although I have a display of a Roman Legion Parade in Rome which is nice. But, I like these figures doing battle and going at it.

Hey - to each their own right? Its great looking at these guys no matter how you set it up. :)
 
Rob said:
Isn't there a company out there who make different scale Propaganda posters?I'm sure i've seen them but can't think of the name.

Rob
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Hello There! Hudson & Allen Studio makes three sets of useful posters for 1/35th scale. As you might guess these can be used for other scales too. These include German WWII home front posters, French commercial posters (both pre war and wartime) and Occupied French and Low Countries posters. All of these were professionally printed in high resolution and were scaled in proper sizes for period printing presses. Posters in this period were often printed in single, double and tripple sheets for application. I also make various WWII cardbord US and German supply boxes. These include C-Rations, K-Rations, Quartermaster and some post WWII sets including first production MREs.These are printed flat and must be cut out and assembled with white glue...an evening project in front of the TV.These are accurate and well reviewed on many of the modellling sites, and would be reasonable to use on your vehicles. These are availible from VLS/Legacy and Michigan Toy Soldier. Hope this helps! Ken
 
Thanks Ken,thats very informative and helpful.I appreciate your post.:)

Rob
 
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