JRutman Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 I was told what it means to be a man. Normandy,escape from Falaise,no leaders left alive,out of ammo and food but not about to surrender either this 17 year old from HJ takes a short break. This is a MB figure from the anti tank figgie set. I was inspired by the absolutely brilliant box art and so modified the fig by tilting back the upper torso and straightening out the legs,then adding folds to the knees and bottom of the smock. This is the white putty. I then added a different right arm and hand and carved the detail deeper. The head from Hornet was given a tilt for some"tude". The PE is from Alliance Modelworks and the MG42 from K59. The breadbag is putty with PE and the water bottle is Dragon. Still a way to go smoothing things out and adding stuff such as MG strap and bipod,etc. J After a little more work and primer you can see the spots that need more work Who ever does the sculpting at Hornet is a freekin genious as far as I am concerned. J Saber 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Jerry Always enjoy your figures and totally agree about the person who carved the master... awesome Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 And where are these spots you speak of ??? Jerry, I always enjoy your figure work......Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 As always, nice work Jerry; I like the L.Z. intro as well! Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Very nice Jerry, strongly resembles this 200mm figure that I've been wanting. http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/stormtroopers-exclusive-200mm-12th-ss-mg-42-gunner.48733/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRutman Posted August 26, 2012 Author Share Posted August 26, 2012 Very nice Jerry, strongly resembles this 200mm figure that I've been wanting. http://www.planetfig...2-gunner.48733/ Hello Kev, That figure is awesome. It is hard to squeeze as much detail as that into my smaller scale fig though. The sequence of pics that were the inspiraton for that fig are pretty well known. This was that units baptism of fire and the young men saw a lot of horrendous stuff as they road into the attack on the back of 3/12SS Panzers. 7 tanks were knocked out quickly and th guys on the back suffered a lot as well. One tank commander was cut in half and a lot more were severly burned. The old hands from Russia came to their aid with a trick learned in Russia,rubbing motor oil on the burns. This kind of high speed advance with tanks and infantry right into the enemies' positions had worked well against the Soviets but the Canadians were a different matter. I tried to use a younger looking face as per a lot of pics I have during the 12SS training in Belgium where the kids really look like kids! Scary. I look at the teenagers in High school now and try to imagine them in this position and what would they do? J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Nice work Jerry. Nice Led Zeppelin reference too. Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Very nice, Jerry. Love seeing your marvelous work. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Mike Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Nice piece JR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Hello Kev, That figure is awesome. It is hard to squeeze as much detail as that into my smaller scale fig though. The sequence of pics that were the inspiraton for that fig are pretty well known. This was that units baptism of fire and the young men saw a lot of horrendous stuff as they road into the attack on the back of 3/12SS Panzers. 7 tanks were knocked out quickly and th guys on the back suffered a lot as well. One tank commander was cut in half and a lot more were severly burned. The old hands from Russia came to their aid with a trick learned in Russia,rubbing motor oil on the burns. This kind of high speed advance with tanks and infantry right into the enemies' positions had worked well against the Soviets but the Canadians were a different matter. I tried to use a younger looking face as per a lot of pics I have during the 12SS training in Belgium where the kids really look like kids! Scary. I look at the teenagers in High school now and try to imagine them in this position and what would they do? J Yep, it's a nice figure, that's for sure. The job he did on the uniform looks pretty good to me, can't say much for the face though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Mike Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I'd like to see this in 120mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRutman Posted August 29, 2012 Author Share Posted August 29, 2012 Thanks for all for the kind words and for looking in here. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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