Our hobby is primarily a military one. However I would love to see it branch out into other areas. What if manufacturers made figure and maybe diorama kits of rock bands? What if there was a set for AC/DC with the short guitarist doing his jig? Or The Who smashing instruments at the end of a concert? Or Ozzy being Ozzy onstage? I think it would be cool to have figures of a band posed during a dramatic and memorable moment in their stage career. A band/stage dio could be quite a shadowbox/lighting project.
Don’t recall seeing those paticular groups but there are a number of kit’s out there in the 1/6 scale produced as garage kit’s of diffirent band members.
Once saw a scratch build one off of the drummer from RUSH with full drum set.
For large scale fugures your best bet is to register over at the Clubhouse.
It’s almost exclusively figures and a number of the people on there are the scultors of many of the collectable figures and toys you see on the market like Sideshow and DC Direct.
Don’t wanna buy 'em as is, I’m going to be more or less building them from scratch in 1/35th… I was at the second farewell tour concert in '97 and got some awesome pics of the stage being set up, since I had a buddy who worked security at the Auditorium…
As far as rock band dios go… I just hope doog doesnt get wind of this, he has a big enough ego as is, without the thought of people making dios of him.
Start at the beginning. See if you can scare up four of the old Revell Beatles kits. John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Unbuilt originals are pricey these days. Polar Lights has repopped them.
Regarding “what-if” I’d love to have a KISS-stage dio (there was a kit in the 70’s depicting the four as they were on the “Destroyer” album), or AC/DC, or Queen or even Lordi (a recent finnish band: they dress up as monters, kind of “KISS meets Slip Knot”).
In “real life” Andrea Miniatures has a figure of Elvis in 54mm.
All we had in the 70’s was the 8" MEGO action figures (dolls). In the 90’s Polar Lights released the four boys as seperate peices. They were in the pose from the Destroyer Album and the bases interlocked to recreate that cover. They came in two distinct boxings. The classic Aurora ‘long box’ version, and a car kit size box that was a Toys R Us exclusive. There have been several kits of Kiss in resin. Fairbanx started a series that was to be album cover related. They released The demon and Spaceman. Then the sculptor died (I want to say Rick Wyatt) and then Fairbanx went out of business.
McFarlane Toys has issued a couple of really nice 8" series of Kiss Figures and at least one stage set. They also had a Metallica stage set which was nothing more than instrument pieces from their Kiss set added to the four guys figures. McFarlane figures can be chopped, posed, repainted and used as very nice diorama pieces. McFarlane also had a couple of really great 12-14’" figures of Gene. Along the way McFarlane has done several figs of Elvis and I think a Kurt Cobain.
