Martin Antonenko
A Fixture
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1. Day, October 12, 2021
It starts again - although I have postponed my originally planned Cossack project ersu etinam.
Instead, this colleague from "Medieval Forge" is now on my desk ...:
This photo should have been the model ...:
The sculpt by Nikita Ablejew is absolutely fantastic!
How Nik even manages to sculpt the Soviet stars on the tiny collar buttons (they are no bigger than the heads of a pin!) Is a mystery to me!
As far as the casting and the equipment of the kit are concerned, we are dealing with an "all-round carefree package"!
Everything is there - of course, alternatively the Furashka (peaked cap) or the "Pilotka" (little boat) ...:
However, for me a figure without anything to sculpt by myself is not a figure!
So I'm going to remodel the bust!
First of all, the Gymnatiorka field blouse M 1943 ...
... will become one of the 1940 model - without shoulder pieces, but with a turn-down collar, on which I also want to make the badges of rank ...:
The reason: I already have enough Russians and Soviets with "pogony" (shoulder pieces) in my collection!
The second reason:
Our friend looks a bit too "Bad Pitt-like" to me ...:
So I'm going to remodel the face too!
I have a portrait of the well-known writer Konstantin Mihailowitsch Simonow in mind ...
... who was on the road on behalf of the Political Headquarters as a so-called "front correspondent" on behalf of pretty much every well-known Soviet newspaper ...:
Like many of his fellow writers, Simonov spent almost the entire war at the front from day one ...:
The next picture shows him during the fighting in defense of the city of Odessa in the summer of 1941 while questioning two captured Romanian soldiers ...:
I will have to take the PPS 43 on his back from him - this weapon does not fit in time!
I'm still thinking about a "Instead" - maybe a PPSh 41 ...?
After the war, Simonov published several books based on his notes at the time - I can only recommend them!
Of course I will also devote myself to the details - Simonov wore two awards ...
... which I will do too.
And finally as a cherry on the cake:
Instead of the binoculars he wil get a Soviet camera of the brand "Zorki", which I want to make myself ...:
Tomorrow it will start!
Cheers
It starts again - although I have postponed my originally planned Cossack project ersu etinam.
Instead, this colleague from "Medieval Forge" is now on my desk ...:
This photo should have been the model ...:
The sculpt by Nikita Ablejew is absolutely fantastic!
How Nik even manages to sculpt the Soviet stars on the tiny collar buttons (they are no bigger than the heads of a pin!) Is a mystery to me!
As far as the casting and the equipment of the kit are concerned, we are dealing with an "all-round carefree package"!
Everything is there - of course, alternatively the Furashka (peaked cap) or the "Pilotka" (little boat) ...:
However, for me a figure without anything to sculpt by myself is not a figure!
So I'm going to remodel the bust!
First of all, the Gymnatiorka field blouse M 1943 ...
... will become one of the 1940 model - without shoulder pieces, but with a turn-down collar, on which I also want to make the badges of rank ...:
The reason: I already have enough Russians and Soviets with "pogony" (shoulder pieces) in my collection!
The second reason:
Our friend looks a bit too "Bad Pitt-like" to me ...:
So I'm going to remodel the face too!
I have a portrait of the well-known writer Konstantin Mihailowitsch Simonow in mind ...
... who was on the road on behalf of the Political Headquarters as a so-called "front correspondent" on behalf of pretty much every well-known Soviet newspaper ...:
Like many of his fellow writers, Simonov spent almost the entire war at the front from day one ...:
The next picture shows him during the fighting in defense of the city of Odessa in the summer of 1941 while questioning two captured Romanian soldiers ...:
I will have to take the PPS 43 on his back from him - this weapon does not fit in time!
I'm still thinking about a "Instead" - maybe a PPSh 41 ...?
After the war, Simonov published several books based on his notes at the time - I can only recommend them!
Of course I will also devote myself to the details - Simonov wore two awards ...
... which I will do too.
And finally as a cherry on the cake:
Instead of the binoculars he wil get a Soviet camera of the brand "Zorki", which I want to make myself ...:
Tomorrow it will start!
Cheers
