UKReb
Command Sergeant Major
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- Aug 31, 2007
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Recently added a few more K&C Texian defenders to my Alamo collection which I have tended to ignore these past few months
Really like their desperately grim but determined expressions. Akin to a final realisation of what they are up against when they see the massed lines of Santa Ana's army
I also bought a couple of the RTA new sets when I was in Australia earlier this year from my old chum Howard (Northgate Woods) who had just taken delivery of them. Manufactured primarily for visitors and tourists at Kings X store in San Antonio. All metal but with a much simpler paint finish than the regular figures in the series. However, a snip of a price at 49 bucks for a duo set and 69 bucks for the trio
But with a little subtle painting/shading application made an improvement on the original paint finish
Likewise this trio set of Crockett knocking seven barrels out of two Mexican soldados. Anyone who has studied the Alamo battle would know that Davy C. was not dressed in buckskins and wearing a racoon hat but rather drab civilan duds. Disney and Fess Parker cemented that myth. I have to admit I nearly didn't buy this set based purely on not being very enamoured with DC's facial expression and that odd looking hat he's wearing. But the two Mexican casualty figures swung it for me as they are great looking poses
He was going to need more than a paint job. Using Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams) as inspiration-Coon hat removed, replaced with a mop of unkempt hair and appropriate beard resulted in any one of the rough tough Tennessean's who accompanied Crockett to Texas in 1836.
More subtle paint shading added to Dan and the Mexicans resulted in a more pleasing to look at figures (for me anyway)
When placed amongst a number of other K&C RTA standard figures in a "Final Stand" vignette they tend to blend in a little better than just being stand alone sets
Reb
Really like their desperately grim but determined expressions. Akin to a final realisation of what they are up against when they see the massed lines of Santa Ana's army
I also bought a couple of the RTA new sets when I was in Australia earlier this year from my old chum Howard (Northgate Woods) who had just taken delivery of them. Manufactured primarily for visitors and tourists at Kings X store in San Antonio. All metal but with a much simpler paint finish than the regular figures in the series. However, a snip of a price at 49 bucks for a duo set and 69 bucks for the trio
But with a little subtle painting/shading application made an improvement on the original paint finish
Likewise this trio set of Crockett knocking seven barrels out of two Mexican soldados. Anyone who has studied the Alamo battle would know that Davy C. was not dressed in buckskins and wearing a racoon hat but rather drab civilan duds. Disney and Fess Parker cemented that myth. I have to admit I nearly didn't buy this set based purely on not being very enamoured with DC's facial expression and that odd looking hat he's wearing. But the two Mexican casualty figures swung it for me as they are great looking poses
He was going to need more than a paint job. Using Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams) as inspiration-Coon hat removed, replaced with a mop of unkempt hair and appropriate beard resulted in any one of the rough tough Tennessean's who accompanied Crockett to Texas in 1836.
More subtle paint shading added to Dan and the Mexicans resulted in a more pleasing to look at figures (for me anyway)
When placed amongst a number of other K&C RTA standard figures in a "Final Stand" vignette they tend to blend in a little better than just being stand alone sets
Reb
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