CONTE

The CONTE site has been updated twice in the last week or so.  Oh my!  Calm down ...no mention of NEW plastic. Come on you didn't really think their would be did you ?

Words of Warning ?

As collectors most of us dislike the above words.  We are an impatient lot.  And what is worse once a new item arrives we are demanding the next.  Such is human nature.  But to make matters worse some manufacturers seem to never deliver.  I know their are no time parameters for 'Coming Soon"  but.......   Many manufacturers  turn out their products as stated.  But they have faults too in that these guys  expect their products  to be welcomed with out criticism.  We get the impression lately that manufacturers/dealers stating thanks for your support actually mean Buy All Our Products!  This is too funny but others agree with us.  Coming soon is a Catch-22

In the Greasy Grass

June 25, 1876 - Indian Chief Crazy Horse won the two-hour Battle of the Little Bighorn, Montana, wiping out the army of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Custer, who led the battle against the Sioux Indian encampment, was among the 200+ casualties. Ironically, the only survivor of Custer’s forces was a horse, Comanche.


Dog gone camera. This will have to do until I can take another photo.

Status

Summer is taking its' toll and as you see I have not posted much as of late. Very HOT here. To recap news from our emails we noted AIP has some new releases and some re stocking. TSSD has 3 new sets coming among them more of those HUGE Romans and Barbs. The mini-sets had some bugs ? And they have combined all of their Civil War cavalry into one set. Paragon will have its' next release at OTSN in the Fall.

The Marx Convention (in Wheeling) has come and gone and collectors and dealers all have reported on the web they had a great time. That's great.

Must be more news out there but this is just about the stuff I like.

Update

June 19th 1536 - Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, is beheaded.

Happy Days

June 17, 1872

George M. Hoover begins selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas–a town which had previously been "dry."

Giddy Up

June 12, 1862 - Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia.