"Ginger" Gerring, 1950

[valiant]

Hi folks,

Just some pics of my latest effort commissioned by one of our club members. It depicts his father who was in 23 PFA, RAMC at Suez in 1950 and is a composite, based on several typical National Service style photos.

Sculpted in Milliput and Duro, around 1/9 scale, painted in acrylics. Base is English Oak, laser cut nameplate and a miniature replica medal attached. Shoulder titles are decals by me, as are the Div flash, but the wings are hand painted.

This will be at Cosford, tomorrow, but, unfortunately, I won't, due to a clash!

Thanks for looking,

Steve

 

[swralph]

I really do love the simplicity of these busts that you sculpt Steve .
Your paintwork is always excellent as usual.

 

[billyturnip]

Class sculpting and painting Steve, your friend will be very pleased with this.

 

[Steve Ward]

Lovely and the miniature GSM is a great touch.

 

[valiant]

Thanks for the comments, guys. Its been on the bench a long time, this one, due to lots of other things getting in the way. Itll be very strange having a space on my bench when the guy come to collect it later!

 

[Nap]

Hi Steve

That looks great really like the fleshtones together with the hair colour which works well

Nice work on the decals

Thanks for sharing

Nap

 

[valiant]

Cheers Nap - I'm pleased with the decals, a bit of a cop - out, but it needed to be precise! As the only pics of "Ginger" were in B and W, the guy who Ive done it for had a pic of his nephew who is, apparently, a spitting image of "Ginger", so I based the skintones on him.

 

[Nap]

Hi Steve

Certainly not a cop out ...how did you make the decals they look really good especially the Pegasus

Nap

 

[valiant]

I drew the artwork myself, then used a pic of Pegasus superimposed on the square. Check the colours, scale to fit, then print onto decal paper, coat of varnish and hey presto, decals!

 

[Helm]

Lovely job Steve
Steve

 

[anstontyke]

great work steve

tony