Eichhörnchen's Armies

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I've got some Revolutionary War figures, 54mm. Need to paint...Maybe we could have a painting party?

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

These days I reckon I'd use a paint spray gun

I started painting mine. I recently found a company that makes 54mm figures for the Rev War that are varied, so I'm going to give that a try.




Here's the metal figure company:
https://www.irminiatures.com/

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I started painting mine. I recently found a company that makes 54mm figures for the Rev War that are varied, so I'm going to give that a try.




Here's the metal figure company:
https://www.irminiatures.com/

54mm eh?

That'll make them as tall as you

[Eichhörnchen]

Originally Posted by Eisenwurst

Hi Glynn. Great stuff. Do you have any US Cavalry figures ? Wild West Period.

I quite forgot about this set from the 1970's - very good poses but I never collected "Deetail" figures because of the ugly metal bases and the PVC plastic (which often resulted in any straight parts like spears or rifles ending up bent)

Look up the other figures under the 'Deetail' banner - especially the WW2 sets - the sculptor was very very talented and if these had been produced in polythene plastic and regular bases they would've been about the best toy soldiers ever (not my photo)

[Eisenwurst]

Just had a quick look at "Deetail", I'll do a proper look later. The figures look real good. lots of detail probably paint up a treat.

I must've painted well over 10k figures in my time, and had a reputation for outstanding work. But due to deteriorating eyesight ( laser beam damage ) , all sold or given away, none left to show you

My favourites were Essex 25mm Macedonian/Punic War range in the late 80s very early 90s. God they were beautiful figures, a fair bit bigger than official 25mm, but the detail...wow, you could tell the sculptor was a real artist that loved his job. I used to paint up the faces to give them individual expressions. It was very satisfying to see people go "Wow, they're alive !! How do you do that ??"

P.S. Autie rides again.

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Endless choice in these crossover hobbies: I've done some military figure modelling and I believe that wargamers like to paint theirs up to the same standards. But some toy figures are so good that they invite more precise painting too, and 'Deetail' are sometimes used in dioramas - possibly to circumvent the tedious assembly of numerous model figures

I usually like to paint my toy figures as though they've been done by a conscientious outworker (who would be using a more limited palette than the average modeller) but I sometimes get carried away if the figure is a good one

Here are some of my model figures - both from Airfix 'Multipose' sets - waiting to go into a diorama one day. There are more models in my profile page album

[Eichhörnchen]

More of Cherilea's rather rangy 60mm figures - awaiting a paint job (see also their Romans and vikings etc earlier). They had some equally lanky cowboys too but the great thing about these large Cherilea figures was always their great dynamism

Some beautiful work!

Where do you usually source the figures from?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Thanks, buddy. If you mean toy figures then the answer now is Ebay - I used to go to toy fairs before the internet came along. However, on Ebay you'll see that just about everything is "rare" - or even "RARE!!!" - but like any other collector you'll know yourself what to look out for and how much is a fair price

[Eichhörnchen]

I think these two sorry looking characters are the only 60mm Cherilea cowboys I have - they won't look half so bad once I've painted them up though.

I posted the wonderful saloon bar poker table set way back: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...6&postcount=21

And there are more great looking figures in this range (such as the gunfighter sheriff) so I better keep looking




Edit: A few months on and I've painted them up & set them in front of the "Timpo Toys" bunkhouse

[Eichhörnchen]

I think this motley group of "Lone Star" will represent the last of my Western figures here. They're shown in what's left of their old paint and I'll probably never get around to repainting them as they were not the best. Lone Star figures were always very common in the toy boxes of old and were (with some notable exceptions) rather poorly sculpted, so carpet cannon-fodder really. There were 1 or 2 others I never got and probably never will, unless they come as part of a job lot

[Eichhörnchen]

"Kellog's Sugar Smacks - the circus cereal" is stamped under the base of this circus ring master. Many and varied were the figures produced by the Crescent Toy Company for Kellogs breakfast cereal giveaways; it was a real thrill to dig down into the box and see whether it was one you hadn't got

I only have the ring master from this set since I prefer my figures to be armed - if he did have a gun then the first thing I'd get him to do would be to shoot the clowns as we never found them funny anyway

Sometimes these Kellogs figures were produced for general sale, in which case they'd be stamped with the Crescent Toy company name under the base - the Robin Hood figures are one such example

The rest of the gang - I think the strong-man must've been modelled on STEED when he was young and virile

[em2nought]

Fernando Botero used me as a model. I'm looking forward to the day obese women go out of style, and obese men become the latest "it" fad.

[Eichhörnchen]

There are three more figures in this beautifully modelled set from the 1960s which I've still to find. I believe one of them is taking a bullet and another charging with bayonet. I know that the bayonet lets that particuler figure down, looking more like one of my mum's knitting needles

Below: the same figures after I painted them up (the officer's huge left and is just camera distortion). Also produced by Crescent to go with these figures were the two dugout/trench sections showing detail I'd not really examined until now

[Eichhörnchen]

Cherilea Toys produced small cowboy figures and large ones in the 50s and 60s (see posts 279 and 294) but there were also a few figures somewhere in between, like this gunfighting lawman (Wyatt Burp) purchased recently and painted up by me. A figure I've been after for quite a while on and off, I just love the poses of Cherilea's plastic warriors