Photos from the 2014 show (1 Viewer)

[marco55]

I want to add my agreement to what has been said about attending the shows. This show in particular is outstanding and is one-of-a kind in that it has the figure exhibit and competition. I don't know of anywhere else in the US where you can see so many great artists in our hobby submit their works. It is beyond words what an experience it is.






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I love this.Who was it done by?
Mark

 

[marco55]

Reminds me of this,

 

[zblang]

Do you know if that Boston Strong Baseball sold? and if not, do you know how to contact walter about buying it?
I'd love to buy that for my nephew

Thanks

 

[whdamon]

Do you know if that Boston Strong Baseball sold? and if not, do you know how to contact walter about buying it?
I'd love to buy that for my nephew

Thanks

Sorry but the Boston Strong piece is not for sale. There are some better photos of it in the painting category

Walt damon

 

[johnnybach]

Please add my thanks to all who took the excellent photo's and posted them here. Looked like everyone had a good time. And as for those ranks of unpainted Staddens..................Yummy! jb

 

[theBaron]

Please add my thanks to all who took the excellent photo's and posted them here. Looked like everyone had a good time. And as for those ranks of unpainted Staddens..................Yummy! jb

More to come, John, more to come!

Also, I put photos of the Staddens I bought, along with a book, in the "Recent Acquisitions" thread. I'm especially happy to have gotten more British SYW cavalry. For years, I couldn't find any, but recently, I've gotten a good number of them.

Prost!
Brad

 

[wds0855]

Some additional shots of the displays Pat Deluhery and I set up at MFCA. We split the award for best new toy soldier display which was a nice touch. One of the good things in setting up the displays, is you can add to it real time as you make purchases through out the day......can you see the the latest add to my Alamo collection by comparing the photo here and one from Brad earlier? Both of us fielded a lot of questions about the backdrops, and I suspect will be a new add to a few collections when collectors return home from the show. The better news we at least got 2 more people to commit to bringing displays to next years show, so hang in there............hopefully we can revive this category to its prior greatness. Don't get blinded by the shirts...part of our show uniform (there are 4 others besides us) and become quite a hoot when they turn into chick magnets, in concert with the HARMLESS tattoos stamped on our foreheads.
Who says shows cant be a great load of fun

Walt Damon

I really loved that Alamo display. I was wondering what it was doing with the other exhibits. I did not know they had Toy Soldier displays like this. Excellent.

Walt

 

[theBaron]

I really loved that Alamo display. I was wondering what it was doing with the other exhibits. I did not know they had Toy Soldier displays like this. Excellent.

Walt

Very good point, Walt. That's why Pat and Walt prepared their dioramas and entered them. Content in the Toy Soldier categories has dropped over the years, to the point of disappearing altogether last year (except for one guy who put red and blue plastic figures on a base and expected to get an award, but that's a tale for another time).

When I joined this forum, I saw the kind of work that so many guys do, and I've encouraged everyone to show their work, not just online, but to take his work to the local shows, too. I think the quality of work is as good, in our style, and as valid, as the connoisseur work. I know it's an old prejudice in the hobby, but it's also a recent one, that is, we were here first, and the connoisseur style branched off from toy soldiers, not the other way 'round. OK, off the soapbox. It was great to see Pat's and Walt's dioramas. Alan Golden, who has produced some beautiful work in the past, but not since we came back to Valley Forge from Delaware, also had three displays, but they were not in competition. We've chatted in the past few years about it, and he's been busy.

There were two other pieces, too, that qualified for the Old Toy Soldier category, entered by John Carglena, "The Duellists" and "The Flute Concert".

I'm glad you made that observation. I encourage everyone who does work with toy soldiers as his raw materials, and produces reworked figures and dioramas, to display your work at shows, if you can, and not just online.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Hi Brad,
Did Walt scratch build the flanking walls to the JDDK Gate ? If not do you have an idea as to the manufacturer? I would love to get a pair of those walls myself....
Once again congrats to all on the great sets that turned up in the fair and the great effort you all that went to the fair and took the time to take the pictures and share them with us.
Cheers
A_C - Luiz

Very good point, Walt. That's why Pat and Walt prepared their dioramas and entered them. Content in the Toy Soldier categories has dropped over the years, to the point of disappearing altogether last year (except for one guy who put red and blue plastic figures on a base and expected to get an award, but that's a tale for another time).

When I joined this forum, I saw the kind of work that so many guys do, and I've encouraged everyone to show their work, not just online, but to take his work to the local shows, too. I think the quality of work is as good, in our style, and as valid, as the connoisseur work. I know it's an old prejudice in the hobby, but it's also a recent one, that is, we were here first, and the connoisseur style branched off from toy soldiers, not the other way 'round. OK, off the soapbox. It was great to see Pat's and Walt's dioramas. Alan Golden, who has produced some beautiful work in the past, but not since we came back to Valley Forge from Delaware, also had three displays, but they were not in competition. We've chatted in the past few years about it, and he's been busy.

There were two other pieces, too, that qualified for the Old Toy Soldier category, entered by John Carglena, "The Duellists" and "The Flute Concert".

I'm glad you made that observation. I encourage everyone who does work with toy soldiers as his raw materials, and produces reworked figures and dioramas, to display your work at shows, if you can, and not just online.

Prost!
Brad

 

[theBaron]

Hi Brad,
Did Walt scratch build the flanking walls to the JDDK Gate ? If not do you have an idea as to the manufacturer? I would love to get a pair of those walls myself....
Once again congrats to all on the great sets that turned up in the fair and the great effort you all that went to the fair and took the time to take the pictures and share them with us.
Cheers
A_C - Luiz

Hi, Luiz, I don't know, but Walt's a member of the forum, so I think he'll respond ere long...

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Hi Brad and Walt,

Sorry on the typo error, I meant John Jenkins Designs ( JJD ) ....As the source of the gate:smile2:
Look forward to hearing about the source.....
Cheers
A_C

Hi, Luiz, I don't know, but Walt's a member of the forum, so I think he'll respond ere long...

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Hi Brad,
Congratulations on the great 7 Years War Staddens.....and the book! You mention that its illustrations have been reproduced at many other reference sources such as Osprey...that is very nice and must make it a fantastic reference source.....
Wish to check your Stadden source for 1900's sets he may want to part with......:smile2::salute::
Look forward to getting in contact with him..
Cheers
Luiz

More to come, John, more to come!

Also, I put photos of the Staddens I bought, along with a book, in the "Recent Acquisitions" thread. I'm especially happy to have gotten more British SYW cavalry. For years, I couldn't find any, but recently, I've gotten a good number of them.

Prost!
Brad

 

[whdamon]

The walls from the Alamo vignette are foam based, and the large wall I painted in the detail in artist oils. Made a fire out of a few twigs and some red/yellow/orange oil paints with steel wool highlighted with white paint for the smoke. Smaller wall more of a few different washes of earth tone hues over the foam casting. Both foam castings came from hobby bunker. The gate is john Jenkins, and is an extremely versatile piece, fitting into a multitude of different era vignettes. Best $40 I ever spent with my clothes on. The backdrop was a very quick oil painting on foam boar musing double sided tape to fasten it to a piece of 2x4 for stability.

Both Pat and I got a lot of positive feedback, clearly showing us show goers want to see more of this type of display. 2 additional people are planning on joining us next year. One of our local members is pushing Pat and I to join our collections with him to display one giant British square....assuming we rent a tractor trailer to move all the pieces to the show next year, it could be quite the set up.

I certainly encourage any collectors to join in the fun and bring a display to show.

 

[Artillery_crazy]

The walls from the Alamo vignette are foam based, and the large wall I painted in the detail in artist oils. Made a fire out of a few twigs and some red/yellow/orange oil paints with steel wool highlighted with white paint for the smoke. Smaller wall more of a few different washes of earth tone hues over the foam casting. Both foam castings came from hobby bunker. The gate is john Jenkins, and is an extremely versatile piece, fitting into a multitude of different era vignettes. Best $40 I ever spent with my clothes on. The backdrop was a very quick oil painting on foam boar musing double sided tape to fasten it to a piece of 2x4 for stability.

Both Pat and I got a lot of positive feedback, clearly showing us show goers want to see more of this type of display. 2 additional people are planning on joining us next year. One of our local members is pushing Pat and I to join our collections with him to display one giant British square....assuming we rent a tractor trailer to move all the pieces to the show next year, it could be quite the set up.

I certainly encourage any collectors to join in the fun and bring a display to show.

Walt,
Thanks very much indeed with the detailed information! Fully agree on the JJD gate.......
Regards,
A_C

 

[Andanna]

More Hobby Bunker
(For the Plastics Crowd)​

More Norman
(For the Glossies Crowd)
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More Figurine Emporium​

More Rodrigo DeBrito
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[Gebhard]

Thanks to all the guys who took the time to take and share their photo's :salute:: . Also a BIG congratulations to Rod :wink2:. regards Gebhard

 

[Wendy]

I love this.Who was it done by?
Mark

I believe that was by Riccardo Ruberti.

Fun show this year. Next year I'll probably have more than one entry...

 

[theBaron]

OK, resuming posting my photos. Some will be duplicates of subjects that Andreas and others have already posted (and my photos are not nearly as nice). From the Ordnance category:







The plate needs correction, "Es war ein guter Tag" would be grammatically correct. I don't think the judges note that, though. Some closeups of that diorama:







Here is a P-40 by Herb Forgey's son, I think his name is Chris, so apologies, Herb, if I'm wrong:



I thought at first that the kit was by Academy or one of the other newer companies, but it's Airfix! It shows how improved the tooling is on some of their classic kits.



and if I'm not mistaken, this is a military sci-fi piece:



More to come...

 

[theBaron]

More from Ordnance...



and three pieces by long-time MFCA member Vaughn Whisker:



I didn't know he built any armor; I have only seen his tin flat aircraft. Also from his display:



and some closeups:





More from Ordnance:







A closeup of the Hummer diorama:



More to follow...

 

[theBaron]

Still in Ordnance, here's Paul Keefe's Gama Goat, featuring a cast resin base by ODG Studios:



and a closeup to show the driver:



This piece was in exhibition only, not in competition, to showcase the base. Paul does excellent work, sculpting as well as painting. His armor and his sci-fi builds have been standouts at our show, for years.

And the last photo I got in Ordnance:



I moved on to the Painter's division, which will follow in the next installment...