Lattest Additions to Bob's Collection (2 Viewers)

[ucla1967]

Last Saturday (April 19th), I went to Bob's house where he was hosting the Vintage MG Club. Although the MGs were nice, the main reason I went was to see the latest additions to his toy soldier collection. Bob probably adds more figures to his collection in a month than most collectors do in a year.

He set up on his kitchen table a display of some of his most recent additions. Many of them were from Ed Ruby's collection including the building back drops. There are Britains repaints, Lucotte, Segom, Hiriart, Soldiers Soldiers, among others. The 16th Lancers band in the second photo were painted for Bob by Gus Ramos from some of Bob's other sets. In the third photo, the Lucotte Mamelukes are a rare set I bought for him from Bonhams in Oxford while the Segom Napoleonics are from Ed Ruby's collection. The British cavalry sets in the other photos were painted from Britains castings by Ed.

 

[ucla1967]

Hiriart King's Own Scottish Borderers. Britains Royal Marines, line infantry, cavalry, and horse drawn sets. Route liners from Soldiers Soldiers.

 

[nmrocks]

So I'm wondering, the Segom figures you speak of are they associated with this seller/editor of flats in France?
Ray

http://www.figurines-soldats.com/Flat-figures.htm

 

[Mirof]

So I'm wondering, the Segom figures you speak of are they associated with this seller/editor of flats in France?
Ray

http://www.figurines-soldats.com/Flat-figures.htm

Segom from 1946- 1948, 54mm Acetate, French, « Société d'Édition Générale d'Objets Moulés » still existing but only flat
known at the end of WWII for its flats, they began to produce round figurines in acetate from 1949, tehy were sold painted or in kit form
( years before Historex ) . They stopped producing the acetate but are still very actives in flats

An advert as seen in Military Modelling ( english magazine) in the 70ies, and a picture from Gazette des Uniformes ( french magazine 70ies)



Just tick Segom kit on google
Best

 

[ucla1967]

So I'm wondering, the Segom figures you speak of are they associated with this seller/editor of flats in France?
Ray

http://www.figurines-soldats.com/Flat-figures.htm

Ray,

I was going to answer that I don't know, but Mirof has answered the question for you. What I do know is that Bob has hundreds of Segom plastic Napoleonics in his collection. Until I saw them at Ed Ruby's a couple of years ago, I had never heard of the company before. In one of my "Open House" threads I have posted photos of his Segom collection.

Mike

 

[ucla1967]

Segom from 1946- 1948, 54mm Acetate, French, « Société d'Édition Générale d'Objets Moulés » still existing but only flat
known at the end of WWII for its flats, they began to produce round figurines in acetate from 1949, tehy were sold painted or in kit form
( years before Historex ) . They stopped producing the acetate but are still very actives in flats

An advert as seen in Military Modelling ( english magazine) in the 70ies, and a picture from Gazette des Uniformes ( french magazine 70ies)
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Just tick Segom kit on google
Best

Thanks for the information Mirof. It is much appreciated.

Mike

 

[ucla1967]

Horse Guards building back drop. Close-ups of various sets on display.

 

[ucla1967]

Lucotte Napoleonic set. Large scale figures made by the late Neal Crowley, who was a mutual friend of Bob, Ed, and me.

 

[ucla1967]

Bruce Hebron's Metal Shed World War I German Big Bertha artillery. Bill Hocker World War I Sarajevo assasination car set. Flats. Decorated doorway.

 

[wds0855]

My jaw is still on the floor. That Big Bertha is fantastic.

Walt

 

[ucla1967]

Those of you who attended last month's West Coaster, may have seen King & Country's Crimean War Russian Gun diorama. Here it is now as a part of Bob's collection. Normally, I never question Bob's display ideas, but I told him that I thought the diorama looked better from the perspective of inside the fort rather than outside it. He finally agreed and turned it around as far as it would go given space limitations inside the cabinet, so that you can now see most of the detail from inside the fort.

Two Hiriart special commission sets of the Imperial Russian Grodno Hussars: a nine figure band with drum horse and a double set of Hussars. BTW, Bob always adds pink cheeks to his Hiriart figures---they don't come that way. I prefer them the way they originally come from Guillermo; otherwise, they are too toy-like for my collecting tastes.

Bob's own castings and painted Imperial Russian Cossack Guards with a brick fort backdrop and Russian regiment (I forgot which one) route liners made of paper.

 

[ucla1967]

If you will permit me to digress from the subject matter, I thought I would include some photos of the grounds around Bob's house. They are lovely and park like, but I can't even imagine what his monthly water bill must be.

 

[ucla1967]

Although this isn't a recent addition to Bob's collection, he just added lights to this display so that you can see the Greek phalanx well for the first time. The one hundred figure phalanx was made from Bob's own castings and was researched and painted by him, too. Each figure has a unique, authentic shield.

 

[lancer]

Love the phalanx. A most impressive number of figures and even more impressive amount of research. Finding that many shield emblems and colors couldn't have been easy in terms of sources or time involved, and then reproducing them. Quite a feat.^&cool -- Al

 

[villagehorse]

I can see a train layout winding thru that spectacular garden, really a delight to see as is the collection. Robin.

 

[ucla1967]

Love the phalanx. A most impressive number of figures and even more impressive amount of research. Finding that many shield emblems and colors couldn't have been easy in terms of sources or time involved, and then reproducing them. Quite a feat.^&cool -- Al

Thanks, Al, I couldn't agree more. Bob is quite a good painter to boot. Take a look at the detail on those shields.

Mike

 

[ucla1967]

I can see a train layout winding thru that spectacular garden, really a delight to see as is the collection. Robin.

Thanks Robin, it is a spectacular garden, but I am not going to mention the train idea to Bob; he has enough going on already with collecting toy soldiers. Mike

 

[lancer]

Thanks, Al, I couldn't agree more. Bob is quite a good painter to boot. Take a look at the detail on those shields.

Mike

Outstanding painter. I was studying those emblems and some of them are unbelievably complicated. There is one that has a 7-headed snake-like creature that is incredible, down to the tiny tongues in an opposing color. I can imagine that a good deal of patience (understatement of the year) and perhaps a magnifying glass were essential.:wink2: -- Al

 

[ucla1967]

Outstanding painter. I was studying those emblems and some of them are unbelievably complicated. There is one that has a 7-headed snake-like creature that is incredible, down to the tiny tongues in an opposing color. I can imagine that a good deal of patience (understatement of the year) and perhaps a magnifying glass were essential.:wink2: -- Al

I noticed that one, too. Painting those intricate shield designs takes real talent.

Mike

 

[ucla1967]

Chariots, Samurai, Elastolin, and flats.