Bomber Command

[kilsh]

Hi

Just finished Young's Bomber Command Bust. He's in the June monthly figure comp section also.

I scratch built the goggles (after grinding off the moulded ones) from plastic card, lead foil wire and putty. I also corrected the truncated para release to a WW2 fully round one. All of the versions I have seen painted have depicted him wearing a cotton Sidcot suit, but it can't be a Sidcot and must be a leather Irwin as the sheepskin liner extends into the lapels. Sidcots had a detachable sheepskin collar liner only.

There are some very well painted version of this around, the box top being a good example, but people seem to have got a bit confused over the various items he wears such as the webbing and parachute rear and assumed that they are part of the suit and painted them to match. I spent a lot of time researching Life's pilot figure so had a lot of info already available to me for this one.

Cheers

Neil

 

[arj]

Nicely painted.
I really like the various textures you've achieved.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[anstontyke]

love the way you have depicted all the different textures and materials

cheers
tony

 

[taff edwards]

Great art work mate like the other post observations great tonal work on textures

 

[kilsh]

Thanks Andrew, Tony and Chris

Cheers

Neil

 

[Oda]

A most charming rendering.

Oda.

 

[Dekiman]

Excellent painting,great textures all around and I like you scratch built googles .
You have a little mistake on your bust: WW II cigaretes didnt have a filter.

 

[Oda]

You have a keen eye Dekiman.Very observative indeed.

Oda.

 

[bogusman53]

how the hell did you do the lettering on the release catch?

 

[kilsh]

Thanks for you kind comments Oda

Deckiman, I did wonder about that and foolishly assumed the box top was correct even though it had many other errors, thanks for pointing it out I will rectify it.

Bogusman, it's a homemade decal printed on clear decal paper, I used the same for my 'The Few' bust which I posted on PF a while ago.

Cheers

Neil