Inspiration

[Robin]

Hi all

I was watching The Last Samurai ( Great Film BTW) the other night and all of a sudden I wanna do Samurais, I get a bit like this painted the S&T Para after watchign BOB and so on.

I was wondering where do you guys get your inspiration from on what to do next.


Robin

 

[Pete_H]

Not only do I get my inspiration from film, but from reading as well. I just finished reading "Band of Brothers" for the umpteenth time, and now I find myself motivated to revisit some projects I had promsed some WWII veterans - Sgt. Floyd Talbert, SSgt. Wild Bill Guarnere, and T5 Eugene "Doc" Roe. As far as reading goes, I recently finished "It never snows in Septbember," which chronicles the battle of Arnhem from the German perspective, and now I find myself motivated to do some figures of the 9th. and 10th. SS Panzers.

Overall, I believe that each of us have one general historical era that we'll always gravitate towards and will rarely stray far from - at least in thought. Even though we'll very likely "stray" from our era of choice, we'll always fall back to that time in history that originally got us into the hobby. As for myself, this era will always be WWII - gee, what a surprise! - if simply for the reason that my grandfather jumped into North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Holland, and did a "tailgate jump" at St. Vith with the 82nd. Airborne Division in World War II (his name was SSgt. Ruben Romero, from National City, CA).

In conclusion, I firmly believe that our inspiration will always come from some source higher than whatever today's media offers us.

 

[jitch0t]

history, films, books, comics, other's works...

when i saw The Last Samurai, the next day i bought one that you can see in my workbench. then i bought another one and finally the western samurai from Andrea.

 

[Jim Patrick]

Pete, . 'Bout says it all. Except for WWII. Napoleonics for me. Their uniforms drive even the color spectrum crazy!



Jim

 

[yeo_64]

Books,movies,photos,paintings;anything that catches my eye,and,more importantly,my"mind's eye",that screams out "great diorama/vignette" is what causes my creative juices to flow.Cheers !
Kenneth

 

[Kreston]

My two main inspirations come from books and from looking at what other painters and sculptors are doing.

I am also inspired by the challenge of doing something different. For example, after reading Mike Blank's book on painting Black and White I did a couple of knights wearing white surcoats. I recently completed a WW2 German wearing a white cammo smock over his uniform. Weathering white using oils was great fun!

 

[garyjd]

Here is my list.

1. Historical art There is so much to see not only from the 19th century masters like Detaille and De Neuville but the likes of Troiani and Rocco as well.

2. Books This is a big one. There is so much more information available nowadays one could spend a lifetime just doing pieces from one battle/incident, or even a unit for that matter.

3. Movies/ Documentaries This one really gets those visual juices flowing.

4.Music I love listening to period music when working on something, be it fife & drum tunes or movie soundtracks, these also help to keep you motivated.

5.The works of our peers This is a big one. In working on some 54's I've found Jason whitman's and Bill Horan's work to be truly inspiring.

I guess that about does it.~Gary

 

[jasmils]

G'day all,
My inspiration usualy comes from seeing something on the news or a movie. Mostly it comes from seeing what figure my good mate/mentor Phil Waldern is working on at the moment. Whether it be a cowboy or a WW1 Australian. And trying to get to the stage of painting where he can sit there and say "not bad mate".

Cheers all. Jason

 

[bobparker]

I too like the napoleonics i pinch ideas from other periods such as a ww1 gassed/blind figures photo and sculpted two napoleonic busts one with hand on the first figures shoulder, eyes heavily bandaged from snow blindness on the retreat from moscow.
bob

 

[gforceman]

Films, books, magazines, videogames, people on the street (especialy for faces) and ofcours the internet.

Gino

 

[Grizzly]

Movies, books(especially osprey books) military history and WW2 magazines and the work of fellow modelers.