Not sure about the Blue Max though....
Mike
Mike are you referring to the Pour Le Merite Medal (I assumed it was anyway when I painted it ) & the blue tint by any chance please ?
Not sure about the Blue Max though....
Mike
Hi mate
It was a very good competition, loads of brilliant stuff mate. I spent a bit of money, bit lucky with a great kit.
It was so worth going for the stuff to purchase.
Dave
Hi mate, I had no chance mate I could only go the one day, and was totally engrossed with the purchase of many modelling items, I tried to make my way round everything, but had trouble getting to do that, please send my apologies
Dave
Mike are you referring to the Pour Le Merite Medal (I assumed it was anyway when I painted it ) & the blue tint by any chance please ?
Hello Ray,
Concerning the pour LeMerite, did your subject, Lt Weymar, actually receive one? If so, he would be a rare observation pilot indeed! My guess is that he was never rewarded with the medal, in which case the medal should have been carved away. The color, is fine and correct. But Blue Max's were not handed around to one and all. It is who is wearing the medal that i question - not how it is painted.
It is highly unfortunate about having to remove the figure from the model. If I recall correctly, here in the states IPMS rules allow a figure with a model as long as it is touching the model. It is considered a diorama if the figure does not touch the model. Very strange rules, but then we are talking about IPMS types, aren't we? At any rate, I think you could have kept the figure intact without calling it a "diorama" here in the states.
But it is still a great piece! I can't wait to see what your next collaboration with your brother brings!
Cheers!!
Mike
Mike, I have the following in WAITING from Model Cellar, the Red Baron & the English Officer with Richtofen's head wearing the loose cap & sporting a fashionable moustache, & from Pegaso Models I have Enzo Baracca I noticed that Enzo was quite tall since on the box he is indicated as 1:32nd
Thank you so much & Regards,
Ray
Hello Ray,
The correct name is Francesco Barraca. Perhaps you are thinking of Enzo Ferarri, who acquired Barraca's "cavallino rampante" emblem to use as the insignia on his beautiful cars?
But yes, Baracca was a tall fellow. In many of the photos i found of him with others, he is taller than everybody! I do not know his actual height, but he certainly was over six feet tall. Also, those 54mm figures i did for Pegaso many years ago were my very first 54mm sculpts and were perhaps a little larger than the figures i am sculpting today. My newer figures for Model Cellar and others are closer to true 1/32nd scale, as they should be, since they were meant to work together with 1/32nd scale models.
BTW, you might tell your brother that Hobbycraft makes an excellent Spad XIII in 1/32nd scale. The pose of the figure was taken from the famous photo of Baracca standing next to his Spad XIII. I hope to do this one day myself. But building models has been little more than an unrequited dream these past years......
Cheers!!
Mike