Completed Critique 200mm SS Ardennes Oakleaf and groundwork

[Gellso]

Thanks Rob

This is super Grant and love the ground work very much and pee dot camo is spot on.

....But it was Paul who did the pea dot camo one not me. And your right the pea dot camo looks amazing and also Paul has made an excellent face.

 

[pmfs]

Hi Adrian,
Oh god no mate.
I'm not tto serious about research. I leave that up to the anal retentive guys who will criticise everyone elses work whilst they produce absolutely nothing. It can take up so much time getting all the stuff right and criticising the scult if a particular type of sandal wasn't made in 2010 A.D. and stuff like that. I'm not anal to that extent.
Thanks for the backup on the jacket camo also!

Name´s and adress´s...

 

[Gellso]

Nice shouting

Big words there m8

 

[pmfs]

http://www.1944militaria.com/oaka_hbt3.jpg

 

[housecarl]

But that's a shirt Pedro.
Carl.

 

[unknown01]

Awesome camo painting!
I liked it very much.
I congratulate completion.

Mitsutaka

 

[pmfs]

But that's a shirt Pedro.
Carl.

Carl is not the same?
Picture 1 this is M44 Pea dot Jacket
Picture 2 this is the evolution of M44 Pea dot, the same of the figure.

 

[housecarl]

Carl is not the same?
Picture 1 this is M44 Pea dot Jacket
Picture 2 this is the evolution of M44 Pea dot, the same of the figure.

It is the same Pedro. I was joking.
Carl.

 

[BobLff257]

Great painting, really like the oakleaf.

Rob.

 

[JasonB]

Very nice, I have the same figure mostly done besides some touch up. I also replaced the head with one from the parts box that I modded a bit to have his eyes shut like he's taking a drag off the cigarette. Supposedly these kits originally came with 2 heads, one with and one without a helmet. I never got the one with a helmet in mine. Its based on an illustration in the Osprey book "Peiper and Skorzeny" in the Battle of the Bulge. That picture has the guy wearing pea-dot camo. He is also carrying a STG-44 with its ammo pouches. They probably changed him a bit so as to not be a direct copy of the illustration. He was actually one of the guys filmed and photographed numerous times at the ambush site at Poteau, with burning American half tracks in the background. This is the same guy

http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/49558-7/DLiB_289_1

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8013/74536456747.jpg (bottom photos)

I think your camo is VERY well done, and if you want it Oak leaf, thats OK too. My only critique would be the helmet with camo netting. These were usually only seen worn by Luftwaffe ground troops and not commonly seen on Waffen SS or Heer troops. Nice work.
Jason

 

[Ferris]

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I leave that up to the anal retentive guys who will criticise everyone elses work whilst they produce absolutely nothing
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Now I understand where the word analyst comes from!

Seriously, I love 'precisionists'. It is so inefficient to all do the research yourself. It's having to invent your own wheel all the time. Forums like these are a great way to tap in the sea of specialist knowledge as I prefer to 'look & do', but do not like to find out afterwards my figure wears the wrong sandals. So I salute the anal retentive amongst us!

(now back to the brushes).

Cheers,
Adrian