K.U.K. Bust in progress

[pokrad]

Size of ammo pouches recalculated - now is it me or are they looking too big ???
I did not expect that I missed it that much...also the size of pompons (not corrected yet) is wrong(too small).
Does this look right to you or did I made some mistake calculating to scale and to work units ??? Did check twice...confused...

 

[pokrad]

Hmm, it looks I did not miscalculate, total height of a head is aprox. 21-25 cm, and this is almost half of the height of the head...so correct.
Also on pics that Jack posted, height is more than twice bigger then height of the belt...doublecheck - so my perception was totally wrong..

 

[JackG]

At first look, pouches did look oversize, but maybe not. Could be something else ... does the belt buckle height scale to 40mm ? I'd suggest removing the stitching on the waist belt as it might be creating the illusion of a much thinner belt? Pouches should sit central on the waist belt, so you should raise their position.

Re-enactment photo, but your bust proportions do like right, just try the stitch removal and center the pouches.

 

[pokrad]

Yes, 40 mm (or in my case 4.4 units - which is 40/9 as scale is 1/9...)

 

[Nap]

Hi ,

The medal looks good in the position , itself it's quite a small medal but the ribbon looks too small visually .....perhaps go for the other one which is a larger medal .

This is looking good , the pouches are different sizes as you said and slightly angled at the lower edges

Keep up the great work


Nap

 

[pokrad]

Here it is, now pouches are touching lower edge of the pockets - but that is the case on the most of the pics - so I guess it is right...

 

[pokrad]

Hi ,

The medal looks good in the position , itself it's quite a small medal but the ribbon looks too small visually .....perhaps go for the other one which is a larger medal .

This is looking good , the pouches are different sizes as you said and slightly angled at the lower edges

Keep up the great work


Nap

Will try to enlarge the ribbon...

 

[Nap]

Only a suggestion .........
take off the cross belt , it's seen not being worn in pictures this would allow you to show the attachment to the cords

Nap

 

[pokrad]

I think I got it...construction error was making my pouches too big...
I misunderstood how pouches were constructed and made a wide leather border around them,,,new ones are missing that border, and the stitching is as on reference pictures.

Here I am currently, now I have to do damn uniform folds and finish it:

 

[Black Army]

I think the size will be good. Maybe the sawing need correction.

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Hi Darko!

The order/medal is too small. It should have a size of more than the great green balls...:







Cheers

 

[pokrad]

Huh, sorry, madhouse at the work, hardly had time to sculpt at all...

Martin, if I understand well (at least there is where I picked up the info), there was small and big version (31 and 40 mm)..

http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/bravmed.htm

In any case I could make it bigger (40 mm - that is exactly the size of bigger pompons)

I am going to work on the bust for the weekend to finish it...


Meanwhile a few free moments I had I've been working on a much simpler concept, but I like it:

As usual all crits are welcome, even if I do not agree with some of them

 

[Black Army]

Nice caracter Darko! Just eyes are a little bit stranger.

 

[Black Army]

There are many good general caracters. Try to copy some head details. ;-)

 

[pokrad]

Sure,If I do a general then it must look like some of them
It's just a concept for now, but I was looking at some of them, on this site,
among others von Lovcen that you proposed:

http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/biog/trollmann.htm

Glasses are just concept attempt, as some of them were using glasses.

But first to use a weekend to finish the first one...

 

[pokrad]

BTW: here it is without glasses, they are partially making the eyes looking strange:

 

[pokrad]

I finally got my 10 days off the job, so it's time to work on this again...
First started with some details on the head: wrinkles, some texture, nothing fancy, just to get me om the road

 

[vince wai]

Hey,

The face start getting life, good job.

By the way, do you start off a sculpt with a particular scale?

vince

 

[pokrad]

Usually I set my "unit size" so it matches actual size in mm, but that is just because I want to be able to check relation of sizes between different objects.

 

[pokrad]

That's it, I'm not gonna touch this head anymore...Maybe it's a bit overboard with the wrinkles and texture for the printer, but maybe some of it will show.
Next to revise the torso...