Funny and Strange (1 Viewer)

[Norwall]

Hi!

I have followed some discussions here on the forum, and I can understand people are confused in finding company, painter and sculptor.

Ihave three figures of Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
All are in the Aeroart St.Petersburg Collection, and all are numbered 103, but they are from different companies, different painters and - what I find strange - different sculptors.
Maybe you experts can explain to me why?

Best regards Mattis

 

[zblang]

I could be wrong, but a thought...

the first two with the aeroart logo on the bottom are more similar in painting and sculpting. Even the map on both is bigger (just painted differently). The other is the one that most different and that is labeled as an Arsenyev figure. I wonder if that is Arsenyev's figure of Jackson that they made after they split up.

 

[jazzeum]

I had two of General Meade that were slightly different. I say had as I sold one.

I'm no expert in Russian figures but I'm not sure I would find the situation unusual. In fact, AeroArt mentions that no two figures will be exactly alike. In fact, I have a figure of von Zeppelin that is different than the one shown on the website.

 

[Combat]

Aeroart is the American dealer of russian figures. They contract with various artists but those artists change over time and the figures are individually painted by different artists. So you are going to have different painters for many of the same figures. In more recent years, Aeroart appears to have resurrected some of its older sculpts for Civil War, WWI and WWII personalities and redone them in lower quality standards. I bought some of the original WWII personality figures and they have all been redone in a lower standard. The poses are almost identical but with some minor variation. My guess is they could not sell them at the higher prices necessary for the higher quality figures and decided to produce some less expensive versions.

 

[jazzeum]

This is probably not the place to complain but several of their WW I personalities (not that they have that many) are out of stock, which, considering that we have the centennial going on, is both frustrating and strange.

 

[Norwall]

Hi,

I understand all about different companies, and different painters, that is quite normal.
Howevever I thought the sculptor was the person that had designed the figure ( made the mold ), and I thought this would be the same person for all figures.
I have very often found that the sculptors name in the St.Petersburg book, is a different person than the
one who have signed on the buttom of my figure.

 

[Combat]

This is probably not the place to complain but several of their WW I personalities (not that they have that many) are out of stock, which, considering that we have the centennial going on, is both frustrating and strange.

Having dealt with them for many years, the production numbers are low to begin with. Add in the time it takes to complete a figure and ship it to the US, and the availability is always uncertain. Many are out of stock for years. An entirely different game than KC and others. There is no set release schedule. I understand that in the summer the russian artists knock off to pick mushrooms (the traditional kind) and nothing gets produced. The best place to find something that is out of stock or new is on their ebay site. Also, the focus of Aeroart is typically on more exotic figures such as knights. The 20th century figures are a kind of side show. The drab uniforms don't lend themselves to the talents of the artists in the same way that knights and ancients do.

 

[jazzeum]

I can't disagree with you about the drab uniforms. Other periods are definitely more colorful although the German Empire had colorful uniforms.

Things do show up on eBay once in awhile although generally what they have in stock.