1/16 German Solider (1/9 Itareli boxart sketch)

[kaz6120]

Hi, A happy new year everyone, long time no posts.
I've been working on refreshing my digital sculpting workflow for a while.
Here I wanted to share an example, a sculpt sketch from Italeri's 1/9 German soldier boxart picture.
I did it with my recent workflows configured with ZBrush / Blender / Phrozen sonic mini 4k 3DP.

I just want to share my experiment results so please no "commercial?" questions.
(I already had enough via FB and twitter so just in case)
It won't be commercialized, due to it's a sketch from Italeri boxart copyrights belongs to Itareli.

 

[Ferris]

Impressive!
Too bad it’ll remain a practice item, as there aren’t many high quality ‘normal’ german soldiers around. Too many WSS with MG34s, but few average Joes.

Adrian

 

[kaz6120]

Thanks a lot for your comment, Adrian.

Yes I totally agree with you, many 'cool' WSS and not so many 'normal' average Joes.
That's what I always thinking about....and I'm thinking I'd do more average Joes, based on the real ww2 pics.
So I've been looking for a real ww2 pics something like this.

Reason why I did this figure is because I just liked the Italeri boxart picture.
I really wanted to have this Italeri figure as a sculpting reference, if Italeri release this as it actually looks like this pics.
But I found out it was the boxart pic for their re-boxed old ESCI figure, not the new tool kit.
So...that's why I sculpted this by myself from scratch, as a standard gauge / sculpting reference figure.

 

[MrBMB]

Lovely work Kaz!! now just post something we can actually buy

 

[kaz6120]

Thanks MrBMB for your warm and kind clitiques
You're right, I have to do something...

 

[1969]

Fantastic sculpting and printing Kaz, it is a shame that Esci did not achieve this likeness with the original figure, the figure in the box was nothing close to the artwork in quality.
Did you use manual or auto supports in Chitubox?
Cheers
Steve

 

[captnenglish]

Great work and I agree shame it's only a practice piece.

 

[kaz6120]

it is a shame that Esci did not achieve this likeness with the original figure, the figure in the box was nothing close to the artwork in quality.
Did you use manual or auto supports in Chitubox?

Thanks Steve. Yes, I totally agree with you, and what I really feel shame is Itareli has just reboxed ESCI one, not new tools.
About Chitubox, I use auto supoprts first, and then add some supports manually to enforce the strength.

Great work and I agree shame it's only a practice piece.

captnenglish, thanks a lot for yoiur compliments, I'm glad. and I will consider the original, something similar to this.

 

[1969]

Thanks Steve. Yes, I totally agree with you, and what I really feel shame is Itareli has just reboxed ESCI one, not new tools.
About Chitubox, I use auto supoprts first, and then add some supports manually to enforce the strength.

I agree Italeri had a great opportunity to make this a nice new figure, shame they just re-boxed the original. Thanks for the info on the supports.
Cheers
Steve

 

[TERRYSOMME1916]

A trip down memory lane, I built and painted the original kit and as far as I can remember it was a bad kit, horrible task and I don't think that it had convincing folds in the uniform that made it look weird, unlike your version that looks great.
TERRY

 

[Nap]

Hi Kaz

HNY to you

Great to see you posting and on a personal piece for your use

All credit to you for doing this

It's a amazing and useful tool and compliments in the hobby

Thanks for sharing

Nap

 

[kaz6120]

Lovely figure... Just one stupid question... Have you asked Italari, as they hold the rights to the picture if they would grant you permission to release the figure..

Smithy

No, I haven’t asked about the copyrights of the picture.
But I sent this picture to them and asked if they are interested in my work data to make it commercial. (instead of old ESCI one)
Their answer was “ not interested in your suggestion” or something like that.
I knew it from the start they would say so though. I just wanted to test it out.

And, then I thought they would probably say no to give me the permission to release mine.
I haven’t asked that but just my thoughts.

 

[kaz6120]

Hi Kaz
Great to see you posting and on a personal piece for your use
All credit to you for doing this
It's a amazing and useful tool and compliments in the hobby
Thanks for sharing
Nap

HNY to you too Nap, and thanks a lot for your comment.
I think I should sculpt something similar to this one with “copyright-free”.

 

[Nap]

HNY to you too Nap, and thanks a lot for your comment.
I think I should sculpt something similar to this one with “copyright-free”.

That would make a lot of people happy

Nap,

 

[Warren SMITH]

Hi Kaz, my next stupid question is, how much would you need to alter the figure to prevent a breach of copyright...

 

[Steve Ski]

Ok Kaz, can't wait till you get a series going, these are awesome!

 

[Scotty]

He looks great. Good luck with this, I hope you can get it produced commercially.
Scotty.

 

[Ernesto Simó]

Great Work, Great Work Kaz

 

[newtonk]

Hi Kaz, my next stupid question is, how much would you need to alter the figure to prevent a breach of copyright...

Not trying to be an arse here, but is there any copyright on a pose? Sure, if you’re trying to pass your work off as Italeri, or use their work to promote your product, I get that. Not copying a pose, I’ve a few Jeff Shiu German paras in 1/16 scale that are scaled up Dragon figures, and no one has raised copyright issues. And from what I’ve heard, if as little as 10% is different, then copyright does not apply.

 

[MrBMB]

If your going to do another 1/9, any of these poses would be great "for me" ............just saying shhhh