Foxwood Figures
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A new 1/10th scale bust of an AFS Fireman during the London Blitz, 1940.
Sculpted and painted by Neil Merryweather, the kit is mostly resin with white metal straps to the gas mask and decals for the helmet identification, representing a London division. The chest AFS badge is cast on the bust to help painting.
A somewhat different topic of one of the many unsung hero's of WW2, on both sides, who risked their life's to save innocents caught up in war.
My parents were almost blitzed in Bristol during the war. Dad was serving on Home Defence AA before being sent to North Africa as part of the 8th Army. Mum was at home with my eldest siblings. Houses and a gas storage tank just 3 houses down were bombed, the stick of German bombs luckily falling away from there house. Had the bombs been released just a second or two earlier........
Although relocated to a new post war housing estate in Bristol before I was born, I can remember visiting some of the bomb damaged ruins still in situ during the late 1950's/early 1960's. Very thought provoking.
So a nice busts of a slightly different topic. Two others may follow - one of a wounded AFS drinking a cuppa and the second of a female AFS volunteer too. They all served.
Sculpted and painted by Neil Merryweather, the kit is mostly resin with white metal straps to the gas mask and decals for the helmet identification, representing a London division. The chest AFS badge is cast on the bust to help painting.
A somewhat different topic of one of the many unsung hero's of WW2, on both sides, who risked their life's to save innocents caught up in war.
My parents were almost blitzed in Bristol during the war. Dad was serving on Home Defence AA before being sent to North Africa as part of the 8th Army. Mum was at home with my eldest siblings. Houses and a gas storage tank just 3 houses down were bombed, the stick of German bombs luckily falling away from there house. Had the bombs been released just a second or two earlier........
Although relocated to a new post war housing estate in Bristol before I was born, I can remember visiting some of the bomb damaged ruins still in situ during the late 1950's/early 1960's. Very thought provoking.
So a nice busts of a slightly different topic. Two others may follow - one of a wounded AFS drinking a cuppa and the second of a female AFS volunteer too. They all served.
