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[Toy Soldier Brigade]

I agree, that is one of they're best ACW sets. Too bad the newer releases aren't to the same standards as the early sets.

 

[kilted vampire]

I agree, that is one of they're best ACW sets. Too bad the newer releases aren't to the same standards as the early sets.

I think that they are actually . It is just that they appear larger. Mch larger than the earlier ones. UKREB there are a few who belong to the Grey club they just wish to be annonymous

 

[Toy Soldier Brigade]

It's more then the size in my opinion. The painting is dark and looks almost antiqued. The faces also look distorted to me, cartoon like. Before I read this thread today I just happened to be hanging some new wall cases for some of my collection. I was adding the new SOS figures to the case that I have the first Conte figures in, and the differences just jumped out at me. Again this is just my opinion. The figures to me just aren't as nice as the ones they released back in the late 90's when they started out. Those were sculpted by Ken Osen who is one of the best figure sculptors in the business - again just my opinion The current sculptor has a unique style that I really don't care for.

 

[kilted vampire]

I have some of the earlier ones. And, none of the SOS series. There may be some truth to it. I remember being disappointed when I saw them.

 

[wadepat]

That really makes an excellent diorama. That may be the nicest Conte product I've ever seen.

Hi Louis,

I'm glad you like "Rolling Thunder." I am very proud to own it and to display it in my home. I think Richard Conte has made some very nice products in the past and they deserve to be seen.

Thanks for your very warm comments!

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

 

[wadepat]

Pat I must agree with my Lord General seems you've unerrated your photo taking again my gentle friend. Looking forward to more as they become available while being unpacked and set up....The Lt.

Hi Lt.,

Thanks for the compliment on my photo taking ability. I think I have made some small improvements in my photography since I first started posting pictures on the forum. However, I consider you one of the masters of photographing miniatures. If I only had one tenth of the skill and ability you demonstrate with your photography, I would be happy!

Best wishes for a great New Year!

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

 

[wadepat]

That is one set that I really wish I had bought. Still I will have to work harder on my mini dios for awhile.

Hi Vamp,

I hope that someday you will be able to acquire this set. I know you would be very pleased with it!

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

 

[wadepat]

Well fill my belly with black-eyed peas I've actually stumbled upon an ACW thread and here was I thinking that I was the only Reb on Treefrog (apart from KV of course).
I've scanned this thread three times now and can safely say there's not a single AV or BoB or AK or Arnhem figure anywhere to be found. Unbelievable!

Great pictures Pat and those old IR figures still stand up to be counted today, also agree that Conte Rolling Thunder was one of their best. Keep them coming you most certainly have my attention.

Which reminds me I read an article recently in a Toy Soldier magazine which stated that the most collectable toy soldiers in the US are the ACW series (all manufacturers) now if that's the case and I have no reason to doubt it, How come the're not on Treefrog or is there another forum somewhere that is predominantly Reb&Yank and not just Krauts, Paratroopers and Tanks?

Hi UKReb,

Thanks for your kind and warm remarks. I appreciate them very much.

Yes, the old IR figures still stand up to be counted today. The castings are still available and only require the brush of a telented toy soldier painter to bring them to life. I find many of the poses of these figures to be captivating.

I, too, have read in multiple sources that the most collectable toy soldiers in the US are the ACW series. In fact, I have read that the ACW figures are a great favorite of young collectors in the UK. Like yourself, I wonder where these collectors are. As you say, they are definitely not on the Treefrog Forum. I do not know of any forum that is predominantly Reb & Yank miniature collectors, but I will continue to watch for one.

I have a few more ACW sets/figures in my collection and I will photograph and post them as time allows me to do so. Again, let me thank you for your kind remarks. I consider them compliments coming from such a fine ACW diorama builder!

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

 

[DMNamiot]

Hi Pat,

I will of course refrain from mentioning the thin air again but will say that you have got a very very cool set there and I am even more impressed when they are all shown together. Thanks for posting them.

All the best

Dave

 

[maddadicus]

D***N BLUEBELLY and proud of it......Michael Newton 1st R.I.

 

[kilted vampire]

Hi Vamp,

I hope that someday you will be able to acquire this set. I know you would be very pleased with it!

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

As Barry Fitzgerald said," You had your chance and you flubbed it!"

 

[wadepat]

Gentle Friends,

I have unpacked another of my American Civil War sets and have taken a few pictues of it before I placed it in one of my curio cabinets. This set is entitled, "Lions of the Round Top." It was produced by Conte and is fashioned after a painting by Don Troiani. It depicts the Union charge down Little Round Top by Joshua Lawrence Chamerlain and the Union 20th Maine during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. This is a numbered, limited edition set. The set number of my set is 993.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a Professor at Bowdoin College in the state of Maine. After the Civil War, he served the state of Maine as its Governor for four consecutive terms. He certainly lived a proud and interesting life.

I hope you enjoy seeing the set.

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

 

[wadepat]

Gentle Friends,

As is often the case, Conte produced an add-on set to accompany the "Lions of the Round Top." Below, you should find a couple of pictures of the add-on set that compliments and expands the "Lions of the Round Top."

Again, I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

 

[wadepat]

Gentle Friends,

When you place the two sets in the proper alignment, they work quite well together. Below, you should see a picture of the completed vignette.

I hope you enjoy seeing some of my ACW collection. I have a few more ACW items I will photograph and post as I get them unpacked and prepared for display in my display room. However, if you are tiring of seeing my ACW collection, do not dispair. I will soon be unpacking and photographing other portions of my collection and who knows what figures from other lines may emerge?

Thanks for viewing my pictures!

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

 

[chiefs70]

Very nice, Pat. I can't shake the feeling you are trying to divert me from my focus on K&C Naps and Crusaders... notwithstanding the Conte "Erin Go Bragh!" I just received.

 

[Toy Soldier Brigade]

If you remove the plug in the base next to the rebel getting run through, you can place that loose figure there.

 

[kilted vampire]

Tired of ACW sets???? No way!

 

[UKReb]

Tired of ACW sets???? No way!

Hurrah! for that KV but unfortunately old son we are very much in the minority on this forum. True I've only been a member for 6 months but during that time yourself, Pat and Shiloh are the only Reb/Yank collectors I found on here. If my maths are right and including yours truly that's 0.4% of the total membership. That has really suprised me when you take into consideration the vast amount of US members, if there are any others out there then their silence is deafening.

This is definitely and predominantly a WWII toy soldier forum and the evidence is pretty overwhelming, for example a frogger posts a picture of camouflaged figures on a tank and within a day it receives 200 hits and 30 replies discussing everything from incorrect decals/types of armament to intricate details of the figures uniforms which is admirable and denotes outstanding expertise by the members. But I cannot participate in their discussions as I dont have the knowledge they have.
And I fully accept there is a flip-side to that coin. In a couple of my posted dioramas I've portrayed for example a Virginia flag with a North Carolina regiment. Any questions, queries, comments from other froggers. Nada! So there is definitely no ACW collectors or buffs here apart from you three.

KV, more evidence to support my issue is our recent Antietam/Gettysburg dio thread which has generated very little interest amongst the rest of the frogger members so subsequently I shall not be adding anymore shots to what is no doubt in my mind a lost cause (no pun intended).
I have however carried on the Gettysburg story over on the Canadian Toy Soldier Club whose membership is woefully low in comparison but it's few members appear to be a little more conducive if one's collection of toy soldiers ride horses instead of AV's.

Guys we are in the wrong war for this forum!

Nevertheless for those 0.4% of ACW nuts, here are my final shots. My collection of nearing a 1000 54mm metals is much like yours and Pat's primarily Britain's/Conte and I have now started to add CSC and Oryon figures. But amongst the collection are a great number of old or unusual figures I've collected over the years, you three may enjoy looking at them.

First up is for Pat, they are a couple of old Imrie Risley figures and as we discussed they still look good when painted.

Reb cavalryman

I have a number of Longstreet figures in various poses, this one is more 1/35 scale and is difficult to use in 54mm dios but I'm rather fond of him.

Next two up are Tradition of London which are not unusual per se except these are factory painted semi-mattes and the vast majority from this manufacturer are glossy. I don't do glossy, I bought 60 of these from a dealer in London.

Next two are Russian I picked up from a toy soldier fair and at a bargain basement price.

These two are from Ron Ward ACW leaders kit series and I'm rather proud of the paint job as I think I've captured the young Napoleon of the Potomac

Before I started this one I studied many photos/paintings of AP Hill and once again I think I captured that sad tormented reluctant Reb leader (His sullen character may have had something to do with McClellan, they were both cadets at West Point and gorgeous George stole Hill's fiancee and married her)

Last year my job took me to Australia 4 times and my backside still reminds me of that long haul 27 hour flight from the UK. During my downtime I visited Paul Clarke's studio in Windsor, outskirts of Melbourne. For an ACW nut it was heaven, some of his Shenandoah figures are outstanding. He sells them as kits or gloss painted, the kits are cheap but the painted figures are horrendously expensive. I got to know Paul very well and picked up a number of tips re his superb sculpting and paint skills. These next two shots are his kits after painting.

Shiloh and Pat will recognise the flag being borne by the Reb officer with drawn sword. The pink serge border Reb flag was flown by Albert Sidney Johnston at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee and was a devil to paint.
That's it fellah's and it's been a real pleasure talking to you guys. So-long and might see you in Canada

 

[aujj65]

Hurrah! for that KV but unfortunately old son we are very much in the minority on this forum. True I've only been a member for 6 months but during that time yourself, Pat and Shiloh are the only Reb/Yank collectors I found on here. If my maths are right and including yours truly that's 0.4% of the total membership. That has really suprised me when you take into consideration the vast amount of US members, if there are any others out there then their silence is deafening.

This is definitely and predominantly a WWII toy soldier forum and the evidence is pretty overwhelming, for example a frogger posts a picture of camouflaged figures on a tank and within a day it receives 200 hits and 30 replies discussing everything from incorrect decals/types of armament to intricate details of the figures uniforms which is admirable and denotes outstanding expertise by the members. But I cannot participate in their discussions as I dont have the knowledge they have.
And I fully accept there is a flip-side to that coin. In a couple of my posted dioramas I've portrayed for example a Virginia flag with a North Carolina regiment. Any questions, queries, comments from other froggers. Nada! So there is definitely no ACW collectors or buffs here apart from you three.

KV, more evidence to support my issue is our recent Antietam/Gettysburg dio thread which has generated very little interest amongst the rest of the frogger members so subsequently I shall not be adding anymore shots to what is no doubt in my mind a lost cause (no pun intended).
I have however carried on the Gettysburg story over on the Canadian Toy Soldier Club whose membership is woefully low in comparison but it's few members appear to be a little more conducive if one's collection of toy soldiers ride horses instead of AV's.

Guys we are in the wrong war for this forum!

Nevertheless for those 0.4% of ACW nuts, here are my final shots. My collection of nearing a 1000 54mm metals is much like yours and Pat's primarily Britain's/Conte and I have now started to add CSC and Oryon figures. But amongst the collection are a great number of old or unusual figures I've collected over the years, you three may enjoy looking at them.

Bob.

I only collect Napoleonic's, SOHK and now the new Crimean War ranges by K&C and so I'm a firm 'Horse & Musket' collector and so while I can't speak for the rest of the 99.6% of members, I for one have read every one of your posts and have enjoyed your photo's immensely and even posted replys to some of them, so I would ask you to please reconsider and continue posting.

Regards

Jeff

 

[chiefs70]

Hurrah! for that KV but unfortunately old son we are very much in the minority on this forum. True I've only been a member for 6 months but during that time yourself, Pat and Shiloh are the only Reb/Yank collectors I found on here. If my maths are right and including yours truly that's 0.4% of the total membership. That has really suprised me when you take into consideration the vast amount of US members, if there are any others out there then their silence is deafening.

This is definitely and predominantly a WWII toy soldier forum and the evidence is pretty overwhelming, for example a frogger posts a picture of camouflaged figures on a tank and within a day it receives 200 hits and 30 replies discussing everything from incorrect decals/types of armament to intricate details of the figures uniforms which is admirable and denotes outstanding expertise by the members. But I cannot participate in their discussions as I dont have the knowledge they have.
And I fully accept there is a flip-side to that coin. In a couple of my posted dioramas I've portrayed for example a Virginia flag with a North Carolina regiment. Any questions, queries, comments from other froggers. Nada! So there is definitely no ACW collectors or buffs here apart from you three.

KV, more evidence to support my issue is our recent Antietam/Gettysburg dio thread which has generated very little interest amongst the rest of the frogger members so subsequently I shall not be adding anymore shots to what is no doubt in my mind a lost cause (no pun intended).
I have however carried on the Gettysburg story over on the Canadian Toy Soldier Club whose membership is woefully low in comparison but it's few members appear to be a little more conducive if one's collection of toy soldiers ride horses instead of AV's.

Guys we are in the wrong war for this forum!

Nevertheless for those 0.4% of ACW nuts, here are my final shots. My collection of nearing a 1000 54mm metals is much like yours and Pat's primarily Britain's/Conte and I have now started to add CSC and Oryon figures. But amongst the collection are a great number of old or unusual figures I've collected over the years, you three may enjoy looking at them.


That's it fellah's and it's been a real pleasure talking to you guys. So-long and might see you in Canada[/B]

Bob -

I concur with Jeff's sentiments. I have only been a member of the forum for about a month but enjoy the ACW items you have snapped. I have long had an interest in the ACW - while not nearly an expert - and have been considering branching out into this area. In fact, yesterday I received the Conte "Erin Go Bragh!" set as well as a replica 1860 revolver to use in a future display I have in mind. I hope you stick around so we can enjoy your collection and benefit from your knowledge and experience on the subject.

Take care-
Eric