LA RÉSISTANCE by PF Works

[Origen Art]

"LA RÉSISTANCE" (Limited Edition of 300 units)

Sculptor: Pedro Fernández Ramos
Writer: Pepe Gallego
Scale: 1/14 (62 mm.)
Price: 35€

 

[MCPWilk]

Looks good, but I'm not sure why a Nazi would be titled "LA RÉSISTANCE". That title should go to one of the Allies surely?

Mike

 

[kenshin393]

Looks good, but I'm not sure why a Nazi would be titled "LA RÉSISTANCE". That title should go to one of the Allies surely?

Mike

I read a little of the accompanying story to this a few weeks back, I think I'm right in saying that she is a spy within the German army, I'm sure someone in the know will clear this up shortly.

 

[billyturnip]

I read a little of the accompanying story to this a few weeks back, I think I'm right in saying that she is a spy within the German army, I'm sure someone in the know will clear this up shortly.

Here you go,
http://pedrofernandezworks.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/la-resistance_22.html?m=1

 

[kenshin393]

Told ya someone would be along presently!

 

[akaryu]

Having read both the English and Spanish text on that website, I'm none the wiser. Is she a fictional character or is this story referring to a real Resistance heroine? For the moment she looks to me simply as a generic Luftwaffe Nachrichtenhelferin. Look forward to learn some more about it.

 

[Martin64]

I think it`s a smart looking Luftwaffe Nachrichtenhelferin with a PC-backgroundstory to make everybody happy.
What about Greta - the Nazi-spy next (sabotaging Allied bombers)?

Cheers, Martin

 

[Ferris]

Looks good, but I'm not sure why a Nazi would be titled "LA RÉSISTANCE". That title should go to one of the Allies surely?

Mike

Well, the germans sure put up a lot of resistance after the landings in France. ;-)

I do like the sculpt, particularly the face. Perhaps too pretty, but no need to be historically correct all the time!

Adrian

 

[akaryu]

I think it`s a smart looking Luftwaffe Nachrichtenhelferin with a PC-backgroundstory to make everybody happy.
What about Greta - the Nazi-spy next (sabotaging Allied bombers)?
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Good to see a bright spot of humor in these dreary rainy days guys! She looks quite historically correct to me as a Luftwaffe signals auxiliary Adrian, even though they couldn't have been all that pretty. And yes Martin, that might be a new sales pitch for all these German figures flooding the market: "No,no! He's not a Waffen SS panzer officer, just a resistance fighter posing as one!" So instead of wrongly naming a SS Gebirgsjäger as did Young, sales might increase if he was called an 'undercover SOE agent infiltrating the Gebirgsdivision to assist the allied invasion of Narvik', with fictional story to booth!

 

[Martin64]

Perhaps too pretty, but no need to be historically correct all the time!

Adrian

Why not?

 

[Origen Art]

I read a little of the accompanying story to this a few weeks back, I think I'm right in saying that she is a spy within the German army, I'm sure someone in the know will clear this up shortly.

Exactly...

I'll give you a hint:

 

[Origen Art]

I advise you watch the movie, and better understand the story of Pepe Gallego and own miniature Pedro Fernández ...

 

[akaryu]

I've seen the movie and it makes for a nice story. True or not? I don't know, but allow me to doubt it. It might be a nice sales pitch for a lovely but otherwise rather generic bust. Regarding all these heroes of the resistance as portrayed in the movies, I remember my father's words who together with his parents was a proven member of the Belgian Armée Secrète, who said that if all the people claiming to be resistance fighters in 1945 would have been genuine, Germany should have lost the war years earlier and no European Jew would have been transported to the camps. But that's politics with which history is closely linked and we after all are here to sculpt, to paint and to enjoy ourselves. That said don't use the term "resistance" lightly, unless you know what you are doing!

 

[ranchhand]

Its a lovely bust, I am contemplating just sanding off the nazi symbols. I understand the story behind it, but to a casual observer it's a german/nazi woman. Not that there is anything wrong with that as it's a part of the hobby but i am limiting the amount of swastikas in my cabinet as it's hard to explain to visitors :I

 

[Martin64]

"Finally after 60 years the truth can be told" - for example that there was no operational all-women-team within the SOE .... after getting the hint I pass on a short piece of the film the bust is related to:

Maybe the pose with the pistol in her hand would have made her more clearly the Resistance/SOE-Agent from the film?

And my hint to improve your hobby life and to avoid sanding off the nicely detailed uniform badges in case that you buy the bust: Don`t invite visitors into your man cave that judge you by your models / the badges on your models. Otherwise sand off as well the red stars, the stars and bars etc - a PC-correct cabinet is possibly in the end devoid of models...
Cheers, Martin

 

[akaryu]

To promote his film the maker Jean-Paul Salomé declared having been very loosely inspired by the life of Lise de Baissac, a British national born on the French island Mauritius. However he denied it was her biography. Lise de Baissac was member of the FANY, later of the SOE, but she never assassinated anyone. As Martin rightly says there were no all-female SOE teams, so the movie is clearly a piece of fiction and the lovely lady presented here portrays a strapping Luftwaffe Nachrichtenhelferin, nothing more, nothing less, I have no problem with that. But why try to sell a historical correct bust as a completely fictional character, that IMO is complete nonsense...
cheers,Piet

 

[Huw63]

I think it's a very nice sculpt of Luftwaffe communications (signals) worker. I will let others, more qualified than I on the subject of SOE, resistance etc. debate the title.

Cheers

Huw

 

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[Mirofsoft]

German resistance
see "Die Weiße Rose"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose

 

[peedee]

This is a beautiful woman well sculpted.
the subject matter, fictional or otherwise would make it an absolute no buy 'as is'.

But how easy would it be to convert to US, or Commonwealth or Empire female in uniform figure I don't know.
I often buy a kit with something different planned for it from the outset.

I must have a 'google browse'.

It's a beautifully sculpted head though by crikey.

P