Replicants Mounted Comanches Painted hopefully these photos from Brian Carrick will give you a better idea. Many of Replicants figures look better painted than unpainted.
Replicants Mounted Comanches Painted Photos
Mounted Comanche with spear
Mounted Comanche woman with baby
Mounted Comanche firing a bow.
Mounted Comanche firing a rifle
We thank Brian Carrick for these photos
They do look better painted, but since I don’t paint, I think I will pass. Too bad, they are great concepts.
Great paint job! Painting pretty much helps any figure look better. I’ve found this to be true with conversions, too. It can make so-so cuts and even parts that are not the best match look about perfect.
Oftentimes a photo fails to capture all the detail of a single-color plastic figure, especially one in a bright, shiney, high-gloss type plastic. When you hold the figure in your hand, the 3-dimensional aspect of the figure makes the details much more visible, but those details get lost in the flatness of a photographic image.
But even when painted, the Commanche firing his bow looks excessively big and globbish on the side of the horse — way too big for Replicants’ Indian pony to support.
I imagine I will get this set at OTSN from Steve Weston —just as I’ve purchased all the Replicant sets, because I like them — but I will have to transfer the figure over to a nice TSSD 60mm Indian horse to make the figure look right.
Incidently, if you want to see how a side-riding Indian which is proportional to the size of the horse looks, just check out the side-riding Sioux Indian which TSSD did for it’s Custer’s Last Stand set — the whole figure is very well balanced and looks excellently sculpted — whether painted or unpainted.
CTS also makes a great “shooting around the horse” pose, as well. Hey Don, I also get my new Replicants sets from Steve at the Chicago show – however, I heard that he can’t make it this year. He’s usually my first stop on Wednesday!
Yes Steve Weston has announce he will not be there.
I’m sorry to hear he won’t be there.
Like you, Len, I always went straight to Mr. Weston’s room as my first stop — although my arrival time at the show is always 6:00 AM on Friday morning, rather than your Wednesday.
I wanted to get into his room right away when I arrived because he always had the latest Replicants, as well as a few other surprises. I knew he had a modest stock of everything (what he and his wife could transport on the plane from London), so I wanted to get in right away before he sold out of anything.
I used to think I was getting there as early as I needed to on Friday morning, but then I realized most dealers were arriving and setting-up by Wednesday, making Thursday just about a full day of buying & selling in the rooms. Like you mentioned once yourself, as my car approaches the Hyatt, I start to feel a trembling sensation, with an overwhelming need to get parked, get inside the hotel, get checked in, and then start getting to one dealer after another on 4th and 5th floors.
Chicago is now 4 months away, and as a notable dealer memorably commented, I must indeed lead a sad, pitiful life to have my enjoyment of things so excessively wrapped up in toy soldiers and the Chicago Toy Soldier Show.
In any event, I’m sad Steve Weston and his wife can’t make it this year. I always thought it was nice they came all the way from London, England to attend.
Paint always help but x US market will not work as most likev not painted figures.
The horse issue is and will always be an problem x Replicant.
Adapt other horse to figure maybe hard as is 54mm .
Best
They look a lot better painted. I will have to take a look at them at one of the shows before I decide if I should get them.
Yeah when they are unpainted they look like a candle that has been left in the hot sun. Painted they look good. Maybe they look better if you see them in person, in they were produced in another color perhaps it would be easier to see the detail.
Yes, the new Replicants figures undoubtedly look better when painted. But the Commanche shooting a bow & arrow from the side of the horse still looks large — too large — unsuitably large — excessively large — outrageously large — and painting it doesn’t change that fact. And I’m sure youl will agree with me on that, Ed.
But I still think once I substitute either one of the nice TSSD 60mm Indian ponies (which I already have in abundance), the figure will look just fine.
Now I just have to find somebody at OTSN who will be carrying them, since my usual Replicants’ source, Steve Weston, won’t be in attendance. It might be Rick Berry of Michigan Toy Soldier Company, who always comes to Chicago, and carries all things Replicants, all things Russian, and all things Expeditionary Force.
But just because Peter Cole makes an out-of-scale figure, I’m not giving up on him or Replicants. He’s already made too much of a contribution to the hobby for that.
Yes, he does seem overly large for that horse, since I’ve never been fond of Replicants horses anyway, that in itself doesn’t overly concern me. My primary concern would be that it resembles a pile of goo on a horse unless it is painted. Even painted it resembles some monster attacking the horse, the details do stand out more though. Maybe that particular Indian has Acromegaly?
I got a box of 50 Marx Alamo Mexicans in 1980s. I want more than the six poses I got . They were hard plastic, I had to cut them with a jewels saw. I got some kneeling Cowboys and cut them to make a kneeling firing Mexican for my Alamo set I was making. I ended up with part dark blue Mexican top and a green or yellow bottom. So I had to paint them to make them one color. I mainly would paint them in detail, with white cross belts black hats, white pants. Gold trim red, green Pom Pom. That worked great while my eyes were good. I recently got my eyes fix so I am still painting figures..
Thanks for all the pictures