Evening and Christmas good cheer to one and all
Thought I'd wrap up my years postings with the last few figures. As always comments welcome.
First up is my first completed resin figure (making a change from the Chota Sahib ones which I'm so fond of) It's Werner Voss, of course. One of my heroes and a lovely sculpt. I added the wheel chock from plastic card. (As an interesting aside these were usually constructed by the squadrons themselves hence there are a vast range of styles in different photos of the period. This one's from another DR1 squadron) I pulled out some of the grass from the sheet to give the 'scruffy' worn look common to these early grass fields.
(Werner was also famous for his shabby appearance as well as his love of motorcycles)Next we have his protagonist from the RFC again in resin. The section of hut was copied from a period photo and constructed from bass wood over a polystyrene core. The small crates were from the same material (yep made up one strip at a time)
and the tarp was some two part putty rolled out and moulded before it had cured fully. Lovely sense of movement in the scarf and coat on this chap which I tried to echo in the tarp.An old one of Sid Horton's Chota Sahib range that proved a nice basic paint job with a dash of colour provided by the hussar side cap. I wanted to capture some of the different textures on this one, with the cord trousers and sheepskin coat contrasting with the battledress uniform - not easy, but fun and adds a level of challenge in such a simple figure.
Finally a figure that seemed to take a long time and went through about three repaints. It's another of Sid's, this time a lovely delicate 'Annie Oakley' from the Wild West range. I picked up a fabulous book about Annie just after I got the figure in a second hand bookshop which had lots of lovely photo's and nostalgia in it including a photo which must have inspired this figure. The ribbon decoration were sewn on by miss Oakley herself to dress up her costumes in the early days. One of her famous trick shots was called 'The mirror shot' in which she hit a target behind her by using a mirror for aiming. I used a scrap of foil on a carved hand-mirror tied to a post with some fuse wire. I also turned the toes of the figure inwards to give a slightly pigeon toed appearance. . . well it amused me anyway.
All 54 mm and painted in acrylics with a mixture of materials used for bases including road dust and static grass. Hope you like them.
Paul
