August 2021 Odds Ends Questions Conversions, we start with a question from Greg Liska and the response. Next, Andreas Dittmann has a question about some figures he found recently. We have a new contributor Jay Booth, who shares some MPC conversions.
August 2021 Odds Ends Greg’s Questions
It is one of the 7 variations castles of Schleich from Germany brand castles. Made for their main scale 90 mm range. Greg feels the castle can be also be used with 54mm to 60mm figures.
Andreas Dittman’s Question
August 2021 Odds Ends MPC Colonial Conversion
Marx Indian with Paddle
The back story is I visited Nick Argento of Glencoe Models. I had did a trip to New England and stopped at Nick’s home. He showed me various Marx cavities he had purchased from American Plastic. We looked at 45mm Indian mold, We found that Marx had blocked the paddle off at several points. I asked Nick if he could open the spots to bring the paddle back. He said he could and did. I thank Kent for permission to use his photo from his site.
The Castle looks brilliant how much did it cost.
Greg, what a fantastic castle!! I was only aware of one schleich castle. I didn’t realize they had produced so many. Thanks for sharing these photos.
Dick
Scheleigh had several castles during many years .
The last more common are these .
Castle set 72039 that is a front wall section with towers façade and main entrance-bridge .The knights mounted are obviously base in Gondorian soldiers late period -LOTR but not clones from film as to avoid copyrights .
A thematic explored-made more by Plastoy series “fantasy’ that are rather pure copies base in LOTR with out cloning the film .
https://www.ebay.com/itm/174895319844?hash=item28b892cb24:g:HvMAAOSwSKdhGzKv.
The the 72070 that is complete different with new curved walls ,new tower ,entrance and rock stones that can be attach or not .
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334098002251?hash=item4dc9caf14b:g:Pp0AAOSwPbJhB0nD.
Both had been sold with additional walls ,sections and add on tents else in other formats .Towers and walls section had been also sold to add on and increase size.
i have both castles and get extra parts and able make huge castle much realstic than most toy soldier castle done with unrealistic thin walls and too low windows .
I also used IMEX huge two castles to blend with schleich
While main scale of this maker-schleich in figures in 1/16 or 95 mm approx scale range figures. The castles and medieval siege machines are made actually rather in smaller not much compatible scale versus figures and yet very good for 1/32 or actually rather for 1/32 .The PVC material used is very heavy in these castles .
Also siege machines by Schleich ,Papo and Plastoy as well BBI-BLUE BOX from same scale range medieval figures sets are good with 1/32 -/1/25 scale.
best
I got that castle in pieces mixed with a bunch of other things like a bat cave (Fischer Price, I think) and some other pieces I have yet to ID. the seller had this pile and was asking $10 for the load. I wasn’t particularly interested. When the show ended, he didn’t want to pile it all back into his boxes and gave me the stuff. After playing around a while I figured some things out and put together the castle and the incomplete bat cave. So, in summary, all it cost me was some time. the few pieces missing are easily fabricated. I’m not particularly attached to it.
You got a hell of deal there ,not single seller who will know Scheleigh brand will ever give that x that price .No idea in other pieces .FP are often mark in all pieces but could be ,could be another cheap maker also .
There some less known Chinese maker doing some good accessories out there since 90s on their own ,some are new not base in any other .
I do like the miter hats made in MPC figures ,well done .The not knowns figures remain me of some cereal or Australians made figures ,also there some Italian made alike too. I need check in my bibliography ..
Think the conversion hats are from the Hat seven years war Prussians.
Almost sure Erwin had the British Grenadier
http://cerealoffers.com/Kelloggs/Variations/Puffa_Puffa_Rice/Warriors_Through_The_Ages/warriors_through_the_ages.html
in mind
for a long time the only one around with the Jean Prussian Grenadier
http://www.fuhrmann-figuren-shop.de/JH-NAPF-01-Preussen-Gardeulan
and the Russian counter (french) revolution fighter by JIM.
Markus, you are right. I didn’t make the connection because the MPC figures have been around so long and the HaT figures are relatively recent; but I have a slew of those helmets myself waiting for a use. Great catch!