French Officer-Champigny 1870

[Jason W.]

Originally posted by Johan@Feb 20 2004, 02:54 PM
...... you make my day every time!

WOW! Thanks Johan. I really appreciate your interest in my figures I'm taking advantage of my vacation this week and plugging away on ALL KINDS of stuff.

I'll post more stuff I'm working on soon.

Thanks again my friend,

Jason

 

[Jason W.]

Originally posted by Lou Masses@Feb 20 2004, 03:24 PM
You added all that in one day?

Thanks Lou! Appreciate the kind words.

Yeah, I don't like pulling away from the bench once I get going. :lol: I'd rather work on it a little, try and take some good pic's, store them in a file then choose how I want to set the pix up for posting.

I guess it's the "have to have everything right first" obsessive compulsive, side of me. :lol:

Jason

 

[RobH]

Hi Jason

An incredible series of pics! Its like seeing a chapter from a Bill Horan book (i wish he'd do another article soon! Somewhere!)

An SBS series like that is invaluable to us here; the pictures speak volumes, and also good to see the source of the inspiration! A detailed painting could be source for a number of figures!

Looking forward to the painted piece!

Go Jason Go!!

Rob

 

[Jason W.]

Originally posted by RobH@Feb 20 2004, 04:25 PM
A detailed painting could be source for a number of figures!

Rob,

Thanks!

Yes, I agree. In that one portion of the panorama (sorry, not all pictured) I found atleast a dozen ideas for single figure and vignette projects.

Jason

 

[gordy]

Incredible! Very inspiring!

 

[poetwarrior]

Jason,

Everytime I see your work, it gets better and better. You are a real talent!
Thanks for giving us all an insite to your work process.

Dave Neary

 

[Jason W.]

Thanks Gordy and Dave! Appreciate it.

If there's a place between satisfied and totally satisfied, I'm there w/ this figure (Why does that sound like something Yogi Berra would say? :lol: :lol: :lol: ).

Jason

 

[Anders Heintz]

Beautiful Jason!

That some great SBS work and love the pics. Nice to see how you work and plan the figure. Also nice to see someone else who can make great results in short amount of time, just continually proove that it don't have to take forever and a day to finish something good!

Great Job, love how you took pics as you went along and then posted everything as a whole, makes it easy to follow

Whats next up?

 

[Jason W.]

Thanks Anders!

I started the figure last Saturday and finished this morning; aprox. 15 hours of work. I had ALOT of time on my hands w/ wife and kids away for a couple days. It's amazing how much I can get done when nobodys around

I'll post my next project sometime this weekend. It's going to be a two figure vignette.

Thanks again.

Jason

 

[yeo_64]

Fantastic work,Jason ! I can only echo the words of all the others before my post:"Thank you for posting your project SBS in such a logical manner." On a personal note,thank you for showing how you did a kepi.Now I can sculpt all those cool Confederates that I've always wanted to do,but couldn't due to this "stumbling block" Looking forward to your next 2-figure project and the completion of this one.Cheers
Kenneth

 

[Jason W.]

Originally posted by yeo_64@Feb 20 2004, 11:44 PM
On a personal note,thank you for showing how you did a kepi.Now I can sculpt all those cool Confederates that I've always wanted to do,but couldn't due to this "stumbling block"

Thanks Kenneth!

The main thing I enjoy studying about military history is it's material culture; the uniforms, equipment and how the soldier may have worn them on campaign. I'm not much into it's tactics and the who's who commanding such and such. I leave that to the armchair generals. :lol:

Anywho, nothing bothers me more than seeing a well sculpted commercial figure with a poorly sculpted kepi. There is a difference between the kepi and the "forage" cap.The kepi has more of a defined shape where as the forage cap is basically a feedbag with a bill. Yes, there are variations - McDowell pattern etc., etc. But still has a defined shape.

Another thing is how it's worn. Kepi's were "cool" back then and were worn w/ a certain attitude. Mainly worn w/ a slite to sometimes extreme tilt on the head.

I have a TON of reference material on said subjects. PM me if you want some images.

SEE PIC

Jason

 

[Robin]

Stunning just stunning

Robin

I thought this might be a bit of fun, its a really crude flash movie(its early) of jasons sculpt pics, scroll through them and see it develop, its about 280k in size.

www.grenadier.plus.com/flash/jason.swf

 

[Jason W.]

WOW! Thanks Robin!!! That was pretty cool of you.

Jason

 

[Robin]

No problem

if you wanted to do text I could put at the side of each pic, and maybe gordy could add em as articles

Its up to you and Gordy.


Robin

 

[johnbrewer]

Jason, please do cast up some figures. there will be a big market here at planet figure. Please

 

[Johan]

Here, I too throw in my vote for some cast figures by Jason Well, how about it, a little three figure vignette or something, or a 70mm Prussian infantryman in the same scale as the Derek Hansen figures?

Great sbs on how to sculpt a 54mm, and I'm looking for a way to "mark" this topic as "interesting" so that I can follow up day by day.... haven't found an option "mark this topic as interesting" so far, does it exist?

Good work Jason, reminds me somewhat of the sbs that was in the book by Bill Horan (how he sculpted a civil war figure in A&B and Duro), of course you're using another medium. You see, Jason, you definetely ARE progressing, I'm not kidding here, for a split second I DID think of Bill's book while looking at your pictures ... must be that you are doing some real good sculpting there!
Two things that are definetely improving compared to your older figures are the anatomy - your recent figures are more correctly proportioned I think, and also the way you handle folds in clothing is getting better and better.

Well, I like your work....

Keep up the great work Jason

 

[yeo_64]

Jason,thanks for the offer of the kepi references Yes,I'll definitely take it up ! I'm thinking of doing another Confederate figure;maybe another version of my Confederate flag bearer or even a war artist of the Confederacy. Could I trouble you with references for the kepis worn by these guys during that period of time ?Thanks in advance,Jason. Keep up the good work and happy modelling ! Cheers.
Kenneth

 

[garyjd]

Jason, What is going on? I am away from the computer for a day and you post this. Wow! Fantastic stuff buddy. I can't say what has not already been said. I have to echo the most important thing, your work is getting better and better. I can't wait to "talk shop" with you at MFCA. I think I'll pic up some Hornet heads there. What great stuff.~Gary

 

[gordy]

Originally posted by Robin@Feb 21 2004, 02:03 AM
Its up to you and Gordy.

Sure, whip up some text

 

[Jason W.]

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Thanks fella's....hmmmm...where do I start?