John Ballard
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Coming along very well Colin.
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WIP Critique Painting Henning v. Tresckow
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This is just brilliant Colin. Real top class modelling.
There's some cracking work coming from Canadian modelers and painters these days
Cheers
Derek
There's some cracking work coming from Canadian modelers and painters these days
Cheers
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Colin_Fraser
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Thanks Del and others who commented recently...here is where I am today. I still need to adjust his face and touch up his Feldgrau. His hand is only undercoated at this stage.
Researching his medal bar is a challenge. I have his service record from Deutschen Dienstelle Wast and it just notes his German Cross in Gold (aka "Hitler's Fried Egg") and his Iron Cross. Photos show a much more extensive bar but not clearly. I think the bar worn by Ken Brannagh in "Valkyrie" is likely accurate given the other research in the film. I attach Tresckow's record.
Crap iPad photos. Will try to do better later.
Colin
Researching his medal bar is a challenge. I have his service record from Deutschen Dienstelle Wast and it just notes his German Cross in Gold (aka "Hitler's Fried Egg") and his Iron Cross. Photos show a much more extensive bar but not clearly. I think the bar worn by Ken Brannagh in "Valkyrie" is likely accurate given the other research in the film. I attach Tresckow's record.
Crap iPad photos. Will try to do better later.
Colin
John Ballard
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Colin this is really coming alive. That tiny tilt to the head adds a terrific sense of character. Very nice.
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Better photos, better camera. A few more adjustments to colour made in the figure.
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One of my favourite books on the resistance is a volume of interviews with surviving women of the resistance called "Courageous Hearts: Women and the Anti-Hitler Plot of 1944." by Dorothee von Meding. Most of the interviews are with surviving spouses but one is with Margarethe von Oven, Tresckow's secretary (played by Dutch actress Halena Reijn in Valkyrie).
Q. What do you remember about Tresckow?
A. He had a personality that simply bowled you over. He had an incredible gift for connecting with you and winning you over. He had something - how should I put it? Have you seen pictures of him? He excercised a very strong immediate influence on his surroundings; he had great personal charm - charm and the ability to convince. You trusted him.
Q. The books about him suggest a highly committed character, straight-forward and upright, with a strong Prussian sense of morality.
A. The Prussian element in him was highly developed but so was his love of nature and his love of creation.
Q. What does 'Prussian' mean for you?
A. Pull yourself together, and jolly quickly too. Discipline. Give the cause priority over the person. Many people have thought Tresckow ambitious and up to a point he was. But not in a negative sense, not ruthlessly so, but with an iron will. Whatever he saw as being right, he wanted to put across to others. He was very hard on himself, asked an enormous amount of himself.....he used to fill the bath with water in the evening so that it would be as cold as possible in the morning. That was him all over; as tough as possible towards himslef but endlessly caring towards other people.
Q. Why do you suppose that the Attentat (i.e. assassination attempt) came so late? Why did all the attempts to get rid of Hitler fail? What's your opnion?
A. Because they weren't experienced assassins, they weren't trained for it. They weren't up to these murky waters, to the meanness and deceptions. One couldn't think as obscenely as the Naxis operated....Henning preferred to fight openly. It was totally against his nature to have to tell so many lies and to conceal so much. Too little attnetion is paid to that today.
Q. Yet Tresckow was the one who pressed most persistently for the Attentat. How does that square with his caution and doubts?
A. All the time that they were planning the Attentat they also had to lead their armies through vast territories without too many losses. Try doing those two things at the same time! Estimates of the chances of a coup succeeding also varied greatly. In the last weeks and months the chances kept getting slimmer and I often heard Henning say ...."We've got to do it even if it fails because it must never be said that there was nobody who stood up to the crimes."
A few more images of Treskow and his signature:
Note that Tresckow was a Generalmajor when he died the day after Valkyrie. I have depicted in March 1943 during the Operation Flash attempt when he was an Oberst i.G. ("i.G." meaning he was on the general staff).
Colin
Q. What do you remember about Tresckow?
A. He had a personality that simply bowled you over. He had an incredible gift for connecting with you and winning you over. He had something - how should I put it? Have you seen pictures of him? He excercised a very strong immediate influence on his surroundings; he had great personal charm - charm and the ability to convince. You trusted him.
Q. The books about him suggest a highly committed character, straight-forward and upright, with a strong Prussian sense of morality.
A. The Prussian element in him was highly developed but so was his love of nature and his love of creation.
Q. What does 'Prussian' mean for you?
A. Pull yourself together, and jolly quickly too. Discipline. Give the cause priority over the person. Many people have thought Tresckow ambitious and up to a point he was. But not in a negative sense, not ruthlessly so, but with an iron will. Whatever he saw as being right, he wanted to put across to others. He was very hard on himself, asked an enormous amount of himself.....he used to fill the bath with water in the evening so that it would be as cold as possible in the morning. That was him all over; as tough as possible towards himslef but endlessly caring towards other people.
Q. Why do you suppose that the Attentat (i.e. assassination attempt) came so late? Why did all the attempts to get rid of Hitler fail? What's your opnion?
A. Because they weren't experienced assassins, they weren't trained for it. They weren't up to these murky waters, to the meanness and deceptions. One couldn't think as obscenely as the Naxis operated....Henning preferred to fight openly. It was totally against his nature to have to tell so many lies and to conceal so much. Too little attnetion is paid to that today.
Q. Yet Tresckow was the one who pressed most persistently for the Attentat. How does that square with his caution and doubts?
A. All the time that they were planning the Attentat they also had to lead their armies through vast territories without too many losses. Try doing those two things at the same time! Estimates of the chances of a coup succeeding also varied greatly. In the last weeks and months the chances kept getting slimmer and I often heard Henning say ...."We've got to do it even if it fails because it must never be said that there was nobody who stood up to the crimes."
A few more images of Treskow and his signature:
Note that Tresckow was a Generalmajor when he died the day after Valkyrie. I have depicted in March 1943 during the Operation Flash attempt when he was an Oberst i.G. ("i.G." meaning he was on the general staff).
Colin
