Jaques Cavalcanti

Jaques Cavalcanti a master modeller from Brazil has shared some of his fantastic figure conversions with me. These Soviets are some excellent work of his.
















Here we see two WWII British Red Devils Paratroopers. Nice radio antenna!
















Here are some WWII Germans. That man on the left firing the pistol is terrific and so is the standing Panzerfaust soldier!
















Look at these guys, I love the first two particularly, the grenade and handgun, the second man looks very much like he is in motion.
















Finally a group of Americans from WWII. Notice the old Matchbox destroyed building front. It is an old version because the newer sets have the swastika scratched out. Excellent work from Brazil! Jaques says he is forced to do conversion since the soft plastic figure distribution there is poor. I think that greater market penetration in untapped markets like Brazil, India and China are in part the hope for the future for the hobby.

Most people don't know that Brazil actually sent troops to fight in Italy against the Germans in WWII. They mostly used US Army vehicles and equipment. Perhaps some enterprising plastic figure company could do a set of Brazilian Infantry and market their WWII line of products there? One of the fun things about this hobby is how people from all over the world share the same passion for the little plastic guys.