Whot! Nostalgia Again!!

planetFigure

Help Support planetFigure:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
I think I am going to have to go and have a lie down. Us oldies cant cope with too much neuralgia (sorry nostalgia) I am 60 years old on Saturday and all this took place when I was still a teenager and on my first (of many) wives.
If I recall correctly I saw a master of the ESCI paratrooper at the Brighton Toy fair. It was the same year as the Weebles came out and I can still remember the annoying Weebles tune. 'Weebles wobble but they don't fall down' They came out in 1971 so it would have been the 1970 toy fair.
 
polyphemus said:
I only ever went to Seagull Models once, in 1980. I remember they had a Crecy diorama in the window made up of the figures sculpted by Al Charles for Greenwood & Ball.
I think some of Bill Hearne's figures ended up in the Rosedale range but I don't know who owns that range now.

Speaking of Greenwood & Ball did anyone ever try mail-ordering from them? Had to be the worst mail order service ever. I remember ordering the Sanderson Press Gang figures from them; received a couple plus some figures I hadn't ordered. I chased them up & received a couple more Sanderson figures plus a couple more new releases I hadn't ordered. This went on for a few weeks & each time the response was the same, more random figures. They clearly hadn't a clue what I'd ordered. Nice chap though.

Wasn't there also a shop in the Burligton Arcade in London, mainly selling painted figures?

Geoff
Click to expand...

When I think of Cliff Sanderson 'Pirates of Tortuga' always come to mind?

Thinking of that, not far from the Imperial War Museum there was a model shop that produced castings of consenting adults in compromising positions (they proudly displayed them in the shop window). There was complaints to the local council resulting in a call for they're removal. The shop got around this by putting them in boxes way too small, consequently they're heads and limbs stuck out holes just leaving the viewer with nothing more than they're own warped imagination! ;)
 
bagelman1952 said:
I think I am going to have to go and have a lie down. Us oldies cant cope with too much neuralgia (sorry nostalgia) I am 60 years old on Saturday and all this took place when I was still a teenager and on my first (of many) wives.
Click to expand...

I hit 50 last month, you have my sympathy...
 
From a Northern UK view point, there was a wool shop in Altrincham that had a bloke upstairs selling Stadden's figure.
Early 80s I think,
Carl.(y)
 
housecarl said:
From a Northern UK view point, there was a wool shop in Altrincham that had a bloke upstairs selling Stadden's figure.
Early 80s I think,
Carl.(y)
Click to expand...
Stadden got just about everywhere!

Plenty of jewelers country were wide selling pewter figures by the boxload. You did not have be model maker to own a Stadden figure back then, just an association with a regiment or a service. Plenty of retired service men and women have Stadden figures on they're mantlepieces.
 
Rich Sculpts said:
Stadden got just about everywhere!

Plenty of jewelers country were wide selling pewter figures by the boxload. You did not have be model maker to own a Stadden figure back then, just an association with a regiment or a service. Plenty of retired service men and women have Stadden figures on they're mantlepieces.
Click to expand...
I think I have one the soldier with the SLR on his right hip I'll get a pic next time I am down moms
 
Hello Geoff and all,

I remember the Seagull shop in South Kensington. I was inducted into the BMSS by none other than John Sandars (8th Army in the Desert -Airfix). This was at a BMSS Wandsworth town hall show where Roy Dilley gave a short speech. The London chapter of the BMSS met once every Thrusday evening(?) in a romm on top of the shop. I had the great luck to also meet Peter Wilcox, who brought in his marvelous figure conversions. The best was a Mongol Archer he had made. Most of his stuff were 75mm conversions of Lasset figures. In the Seagull shop, they had a huge Roman centurion, red Indian Warrior chief in the shop window (both made by Geoff Isley?)

Also met with Max Longhurst at SELWG show, where he showed me his incredible Historex figure conversions and I photographed the Borodino diorama.

Rgds Victor
 
Adrie Karobanicks, sorry for the bad spelling but he did the Old Guard at Bay for Hincliffe (free figure to anyone who can give me the Mil Mod pic as I lost mine)I have the original fig handed down from dad and hope to do it in 75mm soon, resin and as a tribute.
Lasset and Ball
Trevor Morgan painted most of the Almond figures
I was faversham and fortunate to meet a few Gods in my younger years
Maurice was also at end of 80s but worked for a different company, still think he has influenced a lot
Mike french
Steve Warrilow
GRAHAM BICKERTON, a near run thing

Love this thread
Brilliant
:)
 
Francois V, of course :)
Obvious but now under the umbrella of a major manufacturer, he was a bench mark
Ray Anderson also
 
The Old Guard at Bay was a Mike Tapavica sculpt & there was also a picture of it in Campaigns magazine which I still have (I'll try to get this scanned). I painted one up for Hinchliffe Models back in the early 1980's along with the Nelson/Hardy pair, the 16th cent Mounted Knight and the 1830's Lifeguard trumpeter all sculped by Mike Tapavica. There was also a Mounted Lifeguard Officer which required a new arm to be sculpted but this never happened & the figure was never released.

Geoff
 
polyphemus said:
The Old Guard at Bay was a Mike Tapavica sculpt & there was also a picture of it in Campaigns magazine which I still have (I'll try to get this scanned). I painted one up for Hinchliffe Models back in the early 1980's along with the Nelson/Hardy pair, the 16th cent Mounted Knight and the 1830's Lifeguard trumpeter all sculped by Mike Tapavica. There was also a Mounted Lifeguard Officer which required a new arm to be sculpted but this never happened & the figure was never released.

Geoff
Click to expand...
Thanks Geoff, my big mistake.
A great figure and message sent.
Best wishes
Graham
 
I remember back in the 1970's Norman Abbey's Isandlwana diorama using Hincliffe figures being displayed in Jock Coutts's Under 2 Flags shop in London. I was always very impressed by Under 2 Flags and Seagull Models. But not having much money at the time my purchases were very limited. I did see at the recent Figureworld show on the BMSS Northhants stand some of these 1970's dioramas, The Press Gang etc a real blast from the past. I always wished I could have afforded the Phoenix "Young Winston" mounted figure and their Royal Mail Coach.
Happy days
 
The Zulu War diorama is in the regimental museum at Brecon. It featured briefly on a recent-ish BBC TV episode of Antiques Roadtrip (I think).

Geoff
 
I think that was Tradition. They also produced a lavish magazine by the same name. Very collectible, I just wish now I had kept mine.
 
polyphemus said:
I only ever went to Seagull Models once, in 1980. I remember they had a Crecy diorama in the window made up of the figures sculpted by Al Charles for Greenwood & Ball...
Click to expand...

I probably painted that Crecy diorama. Al was the fella who started me off sculpting (and handcasting) and I used to paint a lot of figures for him and make dioramas which then used to crop up in Seagull and Under Two Flags. Incidentally, all of Al's Crecy figures were produced by Premier Productions.

In terms of shops there was also Cavaliers in St Albans.

Al
 

Similar threads

Roadrunner
Hello from Scotland
Replies
6
Views
378
Briggsy
Briggsy
Nap
Rendall Patton
Replies
16
Views
1K
kevininpdx
kevininpdx
Nap
Off to the Canada with Colin Fraser
Replies
9
Views
669
Colin_Fraser
Colin_Fraser
Nap
In the Spotlight with Rod Curtis
Replies
7
Views
1K
Nap
Nap
Nap
Off to the United States with Martin Drayton
Replies
2
Views
1K
Nap
Nap

Latest posts

Back
Top