120mm Royal Navy sentry, 1940 - Mitches Military Models

[MMM]

Hi folks,
Now available from Mitches Military Models
120mm Royal Navy sentry, 1940
Kit cost, £35 with free shipping
To order, please visit
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[Romariogendalf]

I love MM but for 120mm isn't good. Pls add more attantion for details at this scale.

 

[Babelfish]

I love MM but for 120mm isn't good. Pls add more attantion for details at this scale.

What don't you like about it? I don't know much about the specifics of WW2 Royal Navy uniforms but it looks OK to me. Most greatcoats are all pretty basic garments after all.

- Steve

 

[valiant]

Based on this photo. Not sure what you feel may be missing.....

 

[Nap]

Good to see this being available , a different subject not often seen so should be welcome to Modellers

I'm no sculptor but all credit to Steve , like the webbing work

A good painters piece , contrast of webbing with greatcoat

Thanks for sharing

Nap

 

[Helm]

What webbing is that? Was it a special RN issue? Looks a nice enough figure, not many Navy figures about.
Steve

 

[valiant]

Its 1908 pattern, the same as they used in 1WW. Issued to RN, Territorials, etc, Steve

 

[Helm]

Cheers mate
Steve

 

[Redcap]

I love MM but for 120mm isn't good. Pls add more attantion for details at this scale.

Absent some context, this comment is meaningless. What (exactly) needs doing with a stiff greatcoat clad figure as looking at the stock photo image, I am struggling to see what else details wise should have been added or was lacking as you say..?

Perhaps some clarity in support of your submission may be useful and far more constructive....?

Gary

 

[Sylvanus]

MM has an interesting series about the Falklands .. Sharkey Ward sculpted by OFFO.
#Check MM lists and you will see some more !

I fancy the BUST of the Duke of Edinburgh. seemed to be nothing but hey Presto!

Well done MM.
Was it something I said?

I await Sharkey in the post now,. OFFO did some themed trilogies.
A Royal Marine and SAS?

40th Aniversay this weekend.
Do not expecct the Duke of York as a FAA Chopper Jock?

To think of it a set of Royal Pilots of all 3 services,
Enuff this am!

 

[Sylvanus]

Webbing barely different from WW1. As with the Lee Enfield no3 Mk1 which I trained on in the cadets .. after the Martini-Henry 22 conversion. Our CCF had history back to the Crimean War.

WW2 Army in 37 pattern webbing common place into the 60s. 44 pattern followed, Infantry had priority.

58 pattern then all changed!

 

[MCPWilk]

Odd for the figure in the photo to be wearing a single breasted watch coat when RN officers and ratings usually wear and wore double breasted greatcoats.

Mike

 

[Sylvanus]

A good point/ My Officers greatcoat from 1956 is double breasted. Huge and impractical in the field bad enough on parade! Very long and made to measure at a cost from my Regimental Tailor have phoned a friend!

 

[valiant]

I just followed the photo....

 

[MCPWilk]

My Officers greatcoat from 1956 is double breasted.

So was mine. Not bad on parade but beautifully warm in the cold.

Mike

 

[MCPWilk]

I just followed the photo....

I think the detail is fine. RN and battledress uniforms are functional rather than fussy. The only detail I would have added from Slater's Plastikard would have been H.M.S. on the cap tally; ships names were not used in war time, just H.M.S.

Mike

 

[valiant]

Mike - I originally sculpted HMS onto the tally, but it looked way over scale, so I removed it - painting it on would look more like the original, IMO....

 

[Nap]

Mike - I originally sculpted HMS onto the tally, but it looked way over scale, so I removed it - painting it on would look more like the original, IMO....

Good idea there Steve , he's come out nice and can't get no better than a original photo for a reference

All credit to you

Keep sculpting and sharing

Nap