FEBRUARY MEETING UPDATE

We had a great meeting in February. Club President, Hammer Six was off on a cruise and probably having an even better time, but there was still a good crowd and we had plenty of eye candy.

We lead off with Trooper Tim, who showed off this Hasbro Hulk Buster. I've never actually seen this piece at retail, but was impressed with it's close to 1/6th size. It was a big figure. I understand that Walmart has been blowing these out at a good price, but as I said, I have never seen them. Next to that is another one of Tim's fantasy figures with a couple of really nice ancient columns. Those are pretty cool.

Above are some more of Tim's Sci Fi/Fantasy figures. A Vader (on right), gone Destro it appears. The middle figure looks more along the line of an urban street fighter and not sure what the black robotic figure on left is, but it is pretty cool.

Next, Eric showed this nicely finished German 2 cm Flak gun. He was calling it a WIP, but I thought it looked pretty nice already. Can't wait to see finished gun and crew.

Panzercommander didn't have a display this month, other than one figure I saw hiding behind a box, but he had an impressive display of sales merchandise that yours truly drooled over. His junk is better than most of what I have at home in my parts boxes. (drool, drool, drool....)

Gray Ghost had put together a nice WWII Captain America as well as a "War Daddy" figure from the movie Fury. Gray Ghost fashioned the shield on the "cap" figure out of styrene. Really nice job Bro.

Dr. Zorkon put together this vignette featuring a young and old Boris Karloff  and a movie camera man. The camera is from the Charlie Chaplin set. However the good Doctor's camera got a lot of extra attention before it made the vignette.

Here's a before picture of the camera. As Dr. Zorkon told me, not only was the painting fairly poor, there were missing parts to the camera. He had to do a considerable amount of work to get it to look correct.

Above is his finished camera...repainted and completed with the missing parts.

It is a beautiful piece to be sure, but it is the work that he put in to it that really sets it apart from the original.

Continuing with a movie/TV theme, Point Man brought some of his comic/fantasy figures. First we have the 1966 TV versions of Batman and Robin by Hot Toys, sold through Sideshow. These two figures really display an uncanny likeness to the original actors and costumes straight out of the box.

Here's Point Man's version of Captain America (WWII). riding an Indian motorcycle. The base is an old plaque that Point Man had lying around. He stuck a couple of nails in it to hold the motorcycle up in a "Jumping" position and then painted the plaque with acrylic paints.

Some more Hot Toy figures, this time the AVENGERS. Hulk and Thor from the first Avenger Movie.  Captain America from The Winter Soldier and Iron Man from Iron Man 3. The Hulk literally towers over the rest of the figures; I think he's ready for that Hulk Buster.

Point Man's final item for the evening was this trio of Harry Potter characters from STAR ACE, distributed through Sideshow Collectibles. The figures are all pretty good likenesses of Harry, Ron and Hermione from the first Harry Potter movie - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Standout Accessory is probably the chess set with actual chess pieces that comes with Ron.

And that is the February Meeting. There will be a meeting  in March as far as I know, even though the FIGURECON at Entertrainment Junction  is the weekend of March 5th and 6th. If you haven't made plans to attend the FIGURECON and you live in the Midwest, I can't stress enough how great these shows are. Sure if you want to buy GI JOE gear at that show down south the following week, by all means head on down to Atlanta. If you want to see figures and vehicle and meet a great bunch of guys (and still buy stuff... you know.... real action figures), then join us at Entertrainment Junction Saturday and Sunday, March 5 and 6th, you will not be sorry!