Jimbo
A Fixture
Another pair of legs added by me to this superb 1/10 bust from Life Miniatures,
Many a time in the past on trips to London by train, I would leave the train via platform 1 at Paddington and always stop to admire the Bronze statue of a WW1 soldier deep in thought reading a letter from home, sculpted I believe by a WW1 British Officer post war named I think "Jagger" ( not the guy with the big lips from the Rolling Stones).
When Life miniatures brought this bust out last year, which obviously is an almost exact copy of the Statue at Paddington Station, I just couldn't resist adding the legs to him, so I could have a miniature of the much admired Statue, that commemorates all the lost soldiers that were employees of the Great Western Railway who came by train into London, via the Great Western Line on their way to France/Belgium etc, during the Great War. The only addition to this figure that's different from the original statue is the SMLE Rifle resting on the ground, I continued with the sheep/ goat skin jacket being worn under the greatcoat as per the actual statue.
I've not been doing much painting lately due to bit of a painters block, so for the past so many months I've been sculpting all my additions to a "few" of the half figures/busts, that I have been wanting to in my mind improve upon.
Cheers
Jim
Many a time in the past on trips to London by train, I would leave the train via platform 1 at Paddington and always stop to admire the Bronze statue of a WW1 soldier deep in thought reading a letter from home, sculpted I believe by a WW1 British Officer post war named I think "Jagger" ( not the guy with the big lips from the Rolling Stones).
When Life miniatures brought this bust out last year, which obviously is an almost exact copy of the Statue at Paddington Station, I just couldn't resist adding the legs to him, so I could have a miniature of the much admired Statue, that commemorates all the lost soldiers that were employees of the Great Western Railway who came by train into London, via the Great Western Line on their way to France/Belgium etc, during the Great War. The only addition to this figure that's different from the original statue is the SMLE Rifle resting on the ground, I continued with the sheep/ goat skin jacket being worn under the greatcoat as per the actual statue.
I've not been doing much painting lately due to bit of a painters block, so for the past so many months I've been sculpting all my additions to a "few" of the half figures/busts, that I have been wanting to in my mind improve upon.
Cheers
Jim
