Who are the sculptors (1 Viewer)

[Satchel13011]

Was wondering if there was a place to see all the sculptors who sculpt for conte,WBritain,K&C and so on and so forth thanks

 

[Tom dulski]

I've often wondered about that myself

 

[theBaron]

Was wondering if there was a place to see all the sculptors who sculpt for conte,WBritain,K&C and so on and so forth thanks

I don't think there is one particular place where you will find that information. I don't know of anyone who has ever attempted to collect it. You'd have to contact the individual manufacturers, and ask in forums.

Some sculptors become better-known over time, once they establish a body of work. I think of Bill Imrie, Clyde Risley, Russell Gammage (Rose), Charles Stadden, Tim Richards, just to name a few off the top of my head. All of them had their own lines at one time, though Richards also sculpted for different companies, such as Phoenix Model Developments.

John Scheid is another one who comes to mind. He was a contemporary of Imrie, Risley, and Stadden, and he had his own brand. Today, the molds are with London Bridge.

Malcolm Dawson is another sculptor who sculpted for various brands. He also sculpted figures for Franklin Mint.

Those are names I can think of, and they're just sculptors who worked exclusively or primarily in white metal, from the 50s through the 90s, in the English-speaking world. Now think of all of the Europeans, and sculptors working in Asia, and there are probably a couple hundred people, at least, who could populate such a list, if you undertook to compile one.

Prost!
Brad

 

[thebritfarmer]

Alan Ball and Ken Osen both sculpt (sculpted for) William Britains.

 

[Mike Niederman]

Ron Cameron did a great many figure and equestrian sculpts for Britains (Deetail), Airfix, Preiser, and Gerry Anderson's puppet TV shows, as well as gorgeous life-size bronze nudes. (Google image search Ron Cameron sculptor to see those).

 

[thebritfarmer]

Roy Selwyn Smith was the sculptor of the W Britains lead Agincourt series.

 

[hsm]

Alan Caton, emilio at Kronprinz,

so Many yu might be interested to know, some build up on an armature- some even using solder as the medium. Others carve out the figures..(these seem to be "plumper"). Something I will try one day. 3d printing is going to change all of this, and already has in some areas.

 

[Al Fisher]

David Leigh at TSSD.

Bosun Al

 

[Satchel13011]

Woooow thanks everyone I was just always kinda curious

 

[Satchel13011]

Also I have a nice collection of contes vikings and normans and I want to expand who would you guys recommend company wise that best matches those figures

 

[theBaron]

Also I have a nice collection of contes vikings and normans and I want to expand who would you guys recommend company wise that best matches those figures

I'd split that out into a separate thread.

 

[playsetaddict]

Robert Ortiz did much of Conte's newer work from the time of Bloody Omaha on. His sculpts tend to be the bigger ones like the BOSS series and the Spartans and the later Vikings.

 

[Denver]

Also I have a nice collection of contes vikings and normans and I want to expand who would you guys recommend company wise that best matches those figures

Conte's Plastic figures
are easy to convert.