Last Stand at Wake Island

[Martinnfb]

I had in mind the expression of fury and rage in the faces of your figures. Sorry about the confusing statement I should have elaborated.

Thanks for sharing

Martin

[JRutman]

I had in mind the expression of fury and rage in the faces of your figures. Sorry about the confusing statement I should have elaborated.

Thanks for sharing

Martin

No worries buddy,I understood the first time. It's all good.

J

[ssculptor]

I like it. 

 

By the way, I appreciate the link to the planetFigure forum. I did not know it existed. Thanks. 

http://www.planetfigure.com/

 

Yes, there are elements one could criticize in the work. But there are always points a person could criticize. Always, Why? Because we humans are all human beings and each sees things differently. 

So personally, I never take criticism personally. If a person mentions something I can use, fine. that's good. 

If a person makes a suggestion I cannot use then I say thank you and immediately put it out of my mind. 

 

Over time an artist develops a very thick hide. 

Stephen

[ssculptor]

By the way, the only part l miss on a lot of all the painted figures I have seen is the condition of the clothing. If a soldier has been sitting in a muddy foxhole for several days in the Italian rainy season should't his clothes be covered with mud?

Shouldn't he be well tanned after weeks wearing only his pants and boondockers on Guadalcanal?

If one has been sitting in a foxhole in the sun and heat of a tropical island shouldn't there be sweaty areas on his clothes?

Where are their 5 o'clock shadows? 

 

Question, should the painted figures glorify the subjects or should they reveal the reality of the situation, the dirty real aspects, like body parts lying on the ground where they were blown off the soldiers? Entrails draped on a wrecked anti-tank gun? 

Perhaps we should add the odor of decaying flesh to our dioramas? A bit of raw meat left out in the sun for a few days and then placed under or near the diorama will suffice. No? Maybe that is why we do not have smell-o-vision in our movie theaters when showing nitty gritty war movies.  No, I am not being facetious.

 

Stephen

 

P.S. You can use impasto for oil paints and jell medium for thickening up acrylic paints to simulate mud. If there is an art supply house nearby you can ask them for assistance with that. But be sure to ask for a specialist sales person for paints. Otherwise you may get some sales clerk who last week was selling fish. 

 

By internet, for oils try 

http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=564578

for acrylic paints try

 

To get a good idea of how mud looks and sticks to clothing and equipment go outside and wallow in some mud. Take photos, or have someone else take the shots. It is really a lot of fun. Wear old clothes and invite your girl friend or lover (or even a wife) and go wallow in the mud together. It might lead somewhere nice  .

Try not to invite both your wife and girl friend to the same mud pool at the same time.   But that resulting mud fight might give you some good photos for future reference. 

 

Enjoy 

 

Stephen, the dirty old man.

Edited August 23, 2016 by ssculptor

[JRutman]

By the way, the only part l miss on a lot of all the painted figures I have seen is the condition of the clothing. If a soldier has been sitting in a muddy foxhole for several days in the Italian rainy season should't his clothes be covered with mud?

Shouldn't he be well tanned after weeks wearing only his pants and boondockers on Guadalcanal?

If one has been sitting in a foxhole in the sun and heat of a tropical island shouldn't there be sweaty areas on his clothes?

Where are their 5 o'clock shadows? 

 

Question, should the painted figures glorify the subjects or should they reveal the reality of the situation, the dirty real aspects, like body parts lying on the ground where they were blown off the soldiers? Entrails draped on a wrecked anti-tank gun? 

Perhaps we should add the odor of decaying flesh to our dioramas? A bit of raw meat left out in the sun for a few days and then placed under or near the diorama will suffice. No? Maybe that is why we do not have smell-o-vision in our movie theaters when showing nitty gritty war movies.  No, I am not being facetious.

 

Stephen

 

P.S. You can use impasto for oil paints and jell medium for thickening up acrylic paints to simulate mud. If there is an art supply house nearby you can ask them for assistance with that. But be sure to ask for a specialist sales person for paints. Otherwise you may get some sales clerk who last week was selling fish. 

 

By internet, for oils try 

http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=564578

for acrylic paints try

 

To get a good idea of how mud looks and sticks to clothing and equipment go outside and wallow in some mud. Take photos, or have someone else take the shots. It is really a lot of fun. Wear old clothes and invite your girl friend or lover (or even a wife) and go wallow in the mud together. It might lead somewhere nice  .

Try not to invite both your wife and girl friend to the same mud pool at the same time.   But that resulting mud fight might give you some good photos for future reference. 

 

Enjoy 

 

Stephen, the dirty old man.

  I see your point and do agree Steve.

In the Wake dio,I learned that the actual fighting was very brief and so didn't go with a lot of dirt. I l also found the temps. were not bad at all either,so no sweat. The Ardennes dio here depicts paras from my old bunch,the 82nd. They had been in reserve in houses and tents are went right from the trucks to this position. Hastily digging in they were expelled hours later by the 1SS PzDiv so I made them muddy in logical places like knees and elbows. No chance for them to even grow stubble so no shadows there. I wish I could dig up pics of my Sgt Kinney from "Battleground". That fig was very well beat up looking,down to the blankets wrapped around his boots.

J

[ssculptor]

  I see your point and do agree Steve.

In the Wake dio,I learned that the actual fighting was very brief and so didn't go with a lot of dirt. I l also found the temps. were not bad at all either,so no sweat. The Ardennes dio here depicts paras from my old bunch,the 82nd. They had been in reserve in houses and tents are went right from the trucks to this position. Hastily digging in they were expelled hours later by the 1SS PzDiv so I made them muddy in logical places like knees and elbows. No chance for them to even grow stubble so no shadows there. I wish I could dig up pics of my Sgt Kinney from "Battleground". That fig was very well beat up looking,down to the blankets wrapped around his boots.

J

I was not being critical. I was just making suggestions for future dioramas. I would like to see dioramas of hand to hand combat in the muddy fields of WW1. Or the battle of the bulge after the Krauts were stuck at Bastogne for a few days. Most soldiers try to keep clean but there are times where that is impossible. Where bloated bodies of dead soldiers are used to raise the levels of the ramparts around the foxholes. 

Stephen

[JRutman]

I was not being critical. I was just making suggestions for future dioramas. I would like to see dioramas of hand to hand combat in the muddy fields of WW1. Or the battle of the bulge after the Krauts were stuck at Bastogne for a few days. Most soldiers try to keep clean but there are times where that is impossible. Where bloated bodies of dead soldiers are used to raise the levels of the ramparts around the foxholes. 

Stephen

  How about this guy ?  Platoon sergeant Kinney from the movie Battleground about the 101st Abn during the BoB ?

 

 

  I got him lookin fairly used up.

C'mon c'mon,pick it up! Wadda want these guys to think? We're a buncha wacs? Hyup too tree fo hyup too tree fo ya hadda good home an ya left!

Edited August 23, 2016 by JRutman

[Martinnfb]

this is an uber cool shot. Very dynamic and emotional, great composition too

[Ironwing]

Be cool.  Put your negative feedback in a P.M.  It's more courteous.

 

I second that...

 

Sincerely,

Mark

[Ironwing]

Doodus

 

I've said it all along.. Your work speaks for itself and is much appreciated by all those here... Overcome!!!

[ssculptor]

  How about this guy ?  Platoon sergeant Kinney from the movie Battleground about the 101st Abn during the BoB ?

 

 

  I got him lookin fairly used up.

C'mon c'mon,pick it up! Wadda want these guys to think? We're a buncha wacs? Hyup too tree fo hyup too tree fo ya hadda good home an ya left!

That is what I am talking about! Super!!!    

Stephen

[Rick Griewski]

Plenty of old friends chiming in here. Ya know I was getting a lot of flak on other web sites because of these three guys so I just assumed they sucked as it was fairly unanimous. Hence my frustration when the very first response on here after months away was negative. I am not fishing for compliments and those who know me can testify there is not much ego involved that's for sure.

    Here are the three figs at roughly life size. Can you even see the pupils ??

 

 

 

 

Here they are at a little over twice life size.

 

 

Here they are hugely magnified

 

 

  If you want any expressions to show in 1/35 sometimes they must be exaggerated a lot. Sort of like a live theater performer slapping on boatloads of pancake make up to play to the "back of the room".

 It does seem every time I try to introduce a lot of drama in a dio there are guys that just don't get it. I am still tempted to build one with 5 guys pointing,as the pointing guy is in almost all dios lately.

   And I am still looking for the black lips. Anyone see any ?

I like them! They really look like the they want to kill their enemy. It is freaking war. This is not parade.

 

Rick

[richter111]

they show emotion, and a story.  It's a great talent, my son does figures, something I can never pull off.  Add some wingy thingys, and well that there is just perfection.  (hahaha)  And maybe a starship Enterprise...

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[LSP_K2]

OK, fellas, I seldom say anything like this, but that was just completely uncalled for. Any outburst of a similar nature, will be immediately deleted.