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Exellent paint job. It would be nice to ad some shade or dirt to the shield Marc.

The whole painting Marc. Jesus, that's a life work. Thank you all for the comments. That the God of the sculpters bless you all!

Now, they don't exist, they are scratch.

Detail from Rembrandts 'Night-watch' 120mm, from my long list 'things I once going to do'

Hi Dan, it's like good wine, the older you get, the better! All the best

thanks for the fine comments! pictures of the 1:32 scale pigeon-house model you find on: http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Rychlewski/Pigbus/index.html

The bus is a scratch Vergilius. I remember that Airfix once had this item on 1:32th scale. This is a hand, home made thing on 1:16 in soft PVC of 1mm thick. Note: all items I use are handmade. Dimensions of the dio: Lenght: 50cm Height: 28cm...

‘Ticket te the frontline’ : 1:16th (120mm) scratch The Ole Bill (not Old Bill) warbus was a pre-war London bus and used in many numbers on the western front. Ole Bill was in those days a cartoon caracter. For military purpose, most of the busses where painted in an olive-green colour, but...

Goed gedacht Marc. Maar de Vlaamse meiden kenende... 1/2 liter pints, you must see the english on the belgian coast drinking. Nothing changed I think.

Great Job, feels like real. Exellent painting.

'My lucky hand' 120mm - hand made from Belgium 1915 Flanders, somwhere in a pub behind the frontline. Some English soldiers drinking dark, strong beer. Whit his lucky hand he killed some germans that day, now he's trying his luck on a different way. Guess where that hand is going to...

thanks for the commentary...and those hands, well, in a near future... till soon

Hi, it's been a while but I'm back into business. 'Swartsche teufel' 1914 - 120mm and scratch builded Here's a belgian 'carabinier-cyclist' waiting for the germans on the 12 august 1914 at Halen (Belgian village - Battle of Halen). After the battle they where coled the 'swartsche teufel'...

Is he enjoying his digging? Looks like he does!

Like this one also. Photographic tip: hold a white sheet of paper, plastic ore whatever what you find what is white in the dark side. Against the other side of the source of light. Experiment with the distance of te white board. Take a picture and you will see the difference. I like the way you...

Dani, All Belgian guides of that period had green, also the cloak. The red colour is 'amarant', a kind of magenta. See for that colour http://www.les-petits-belges.be/gidstrompet.html Blue cloaks = worn by the rest of the cavalery and artillery. The trousers: the black leather between the...

To dry oilpaint pretty fast: mix it with 'Liquin' from Winsor & Newton. It drys shiny, so I use matt picture varnish for oilpaintings. Some oilpaints need weeks to dry (like cadmium), so this is a good solution. You can use Liquin also as a varnish. If you by it, its colourless, but after a...

Two of the artillery soldiers Pieces of raisinparts are joined toghether wirh cupper wire and the space between filled up with polyesterpaste. Now the model is ready for the details. Again lead foil is the important base to work on. Working with putty (milliput) on the foil. The form...

exceptionally good work Dan!

How I make lead wire from lead foil pic 1: little plank with rough sandpaper pic 2: lead foil, lath and sharp x-acto knife pic 3: how to hold the knife. Don't press to hard, bether cutting twice than to cut in one time. pic 4: roll the strip into a spiral pic 5: roll gently with the sandpaper...