70th Annual MFCA Show & Mart - my photos (2 Viewers)

[theBaron]

Hi, all! I've finally gotten my photos organized and uploaded, so here is a little tease to start us off...

These figures are in 1/6 scale by Colonel Skip Tyler, who has been a Grand Master for over 30 years. A British grenadier and a Union cavalryman with his tack:

Solider of the Corps of Discovery, 1805:

Cavalryman (sorry, I missed the year):

Cnfederate cavalryman:

USMC, private, 1812:

Confederate private:

Col. Tyler uses the old Marx "Best of the West" figures as his mannikins for these conversions. I mentioned that I've got old GI Joes that I've thought about converting, but he noted that the Marx figures have better hands for converting to different poses (I never had any GI Joes with Kung-Fu Grip!). Also, we agreed that the horses from the Marx series are the best and the most accessible in this scale. The Marx series also had some very good examples of the ordnance from around the time of the Civil War up through the Plains Indian Wars.

Speaking of Indians, he's also converted the Geronimo figure into a Plains Indian scout serving with the US Cavalry, but unfortunately, he didn't have room to bring that figure along.

Col. Tyler's display was part of a retrospective of past Grand Masters that we like to hold, to show earlier work to the younger audiences. He's a real gentleman, too, and I hope those of you who made it up to the show had a chance to chat with him.

More to come...

 

[45thdiv]

Thanks for the post Brad. Those look great. I was wondering what he used as the underlying figure. I would have thought some of the new Dragon 1/6th scale stuff. More points of articulation (about 3 times as much). I have some of the old Marx Best of the West and The silver knight. And a ton of WW2 Dragon figures.

I really like the clothing he has made and the flesh tone is really outstanding. Very nice. I wish I could have gone to see the show.

Matthew

 

[theBaron]

Here's the second installment...

"Sniper", depicting British paras landing in Arnhem:

An SS Tiger at Kharkov:

and our own Wendy's figures:

Sorry, Wendy, I missed noting the titles of your pieces, and I didn't get a photo of Tinuviel (which, if my nerdy senses are correct, is from The Silmarillion)

More to follow...

 

[theBaron]

You're very welcome, Matthew! I have some of those Marx figures in my parents' attic, too, so I may try kitbashing them, as well as the GI Joes (The ones with the beards would make perfect Prussian cuirassiers circa 1871).

More to follow...

 

[theBaron]

This is by Al LaFleche of the Wings & Wheels IPMS club, Springfield, Massachussetts, a great bunch of guys! I think it was entitled, "The Robot's Victim":

Al had some mecha pieces which you'll see in a later post.

More figures...a Roman legatus:

and an homage to Gericault's painting, a Chasseur of Napoleon's guard:

A pair of Civil War figures, always a popular subject:

Athena, goddess of war:

and a wonderful pair of busts of Indians, an Osage warrior:

and a Hopi maiden:

More to follow...

 

[theBaron]

More subjects from the American west:

and then to the other side of the Pacific, Maeda Toshiio-sama!

Another Napoleonic, Captain Pierre Daumnesil:

A fine bust of American ace Frank Luke:

and a French chasseur alpin from the Great War:

and a collection of Napoleonics in 54mm:

More to follow...

 

[Wendy]

Sorry, Wendy, I missed noting the titles of your pieces, and I didn't get a photo of Tinuviel (which, if my nerdy senses are correct, is from The Silmarillion)

Your nerdy senses are correct. ^&grin Though she just an average elf from Thunderbolt Mt. that I decided to label as Luthien Tinúviel since the licensing rights to Silmarillion will never, ever be made available for the production of figures (or at least in Christopher Tolkien's lifetime - he doesn't like figures in general and it's he who owns the rights to all things Tolkien outside of The Hobbit and LOTR).

As far as titles, they aren't really important - except maybe that the set of figures on the round base is the White Council from LOTR history.

Thanks for the pics. How many did you take? You've only gotten thought one row so far. :smile2:

 

[Leadmen]

Thanks Brad for the fine pictures of these miniatures. The show would have been nice to attend. I was there around "96", and really had a good time. J

 

[Warrior]

I thought the Arnhem diorama was terrific, looked spectacular up close at the show, as was the Winter tiger tank, he even managed to get the logs on the correct side too....................{sm2}

 

[marco55]

Thanks Brad for the pics."Sniper" is a terrific dio.
Mark

 

[PJDeluhery]

Hi Brad,

Kudos to you and all the others who put on yet another fantastic MFCA show this year. I'm sure I speak for all the Hawaiian Shirt Crew when I say we had a fanastic time.

I see the "Hospitality Room Stalwarts" continued to uphold their fine tradition this year with some brews "imported" from New England. The spirit continues!

As you know, I'm the N. American Rep. for the British Flat Figure Society (BFFS). For those who may be interested, here's a link to my report and photos of the flats at MFCA.

http://www.britishflatfigures.org.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3020

Here's the best set of pictures on the web I've seen so-far from MFCA 20111.

http://www.timelinesforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12072

(click the Timelines link)

Thanks for your efforts and your photos.

 

[theBaron]

Hi, all, here is the next installment in the pics that I took...

Some excellent flats; here, Seljuks of Rum (also spelled Rhum, if I am not mistaken):

and the classic, "Girl with a Pearl Earring":

Forgive me, I don't know the actual name of the painting that inspired this flat. I could only label it as "Girl with Veil":

Look at how the artist achieved the effect of the thin veil over her hair and shoulders!

and here, St. George and the dragon:

Here is a group of rounds by Vaughn Whisker, who otherwise paints flats, his Nativity:

More to follow...

 

[theBaron]

Thanks, guys, I'm glad you're enjoying these, or got to see them in person!

@Pat, thank you very much to you and to the rest of your crew, and thanks for the link.

I'm expecting Nick Enfield's photos, which I'll put up on our website, too, along with the award winners.

More pics to follow....

 

[theBaron]

Back to fully-rounds...

Here is a Baden dragoon, by Stephen Malia, from Malta:

I was glad to see this in person, after following his build blog over at PlanetFigure (www.planetfigure.com), and it was great to see Stephen in person again.

The next photos are of artist Keith Rocco's display. We have been fortunate to have him as a vendor at our show, with his great paintings.

And not only for his art, but Keith and his wife are very gracious, really nice folks to meet and talk to.

More to follow...

 

[theBaron]

Here is Dave Maddox' excellent diorama, "A Captured Moment", inspired by a period photo of the Red Baron and Werner Voss:

From the photo, Dave conceived of showing von Richthofen and Voss in black and white, as in the photo, but showing the photographer in natural colors:

Here are the aces, standing before their two-seater Albatros conversion, made specially for von Richthofen by the company, and which he used as a squadron hack:

Dave scratched the aircraft section. He also explained how tricky it was to achieve the black and white effect, including researching from the photo.

On to another piece of ordnance, "Under Fire" by John Rosengrant:

The kit is by Tamiya, with figures heavily modified or sculpted from scratch.

More to follow...

 

[PJDeluhery]

More great photos, Brad. I'm lifting a few I missed. :smile2: Hope you don't mind.

 

[theBaron]

Sure thing, Pat! I hope the quality is OK.

I have fallen behind, this represents about half of the pics I took, but I've been distracted with some other work. I'll push to get the rest of them up and finish the thread. The last photos will be of my haul from the show, except for the beer, which I am working my way through, thanks again, Don!

Prost!
Brad

 

[Toy Soldier Brigade]

I ended up with one of Keith Rocco's fantastic prints.

 

[theBaron]

Excellent! I'm glad you did--his work is just fantastic!

 

[theBaron]

time to get back at it, and post the rest of the pics I took at our show this year.

As a lead-in, here is an excellent flat by Greg DiFranco, a French Napoleonic dragoon:

I wish I were better able to show you the subtlety of Greg's work. His shading is so fine, that he approaches a photographic image.

This next group consists of works in progress by the Italian figure sculptor Ludovico Carrano:

Again, you can see the quality of the work shown in our exhibition. Ludovico produces marevellous figures.

I can't wait to see these finished and painted!

From connoisseur figures in progress, we turn to classic toy soldiers. These dimestore conversions were made by Roger DuBois, and won the Best Old Toy Soldier award:

Using old Barclay and Manoil dimestores, Roger produced Prussians in pre-1910 field dress

including a signals unit

and a color party

and here is an example of the raw materials he used:

That brings me to a word about judging in the Toy Soldier categories. We judge Old and New Toy Soldiers, based on the soldiers used as the starting point. Roger's fall into the Old Toy Soldier category, because he used old toy soldiers. Displays using King & Country, such as Alan Gold has made, are judged as New Toy Soldiers.

More to follow...