My 1/9th scale SS fsj

[RobH]

Hi Gunnar

Welcome to Planet!
I've seen some of your stuff before I think?
Did you do a large scale fallschirmjäger throwing a grenade for Warriors?

This is an excellent figure. Is he done using Magic Sculp? If so, what are the details done with? Very impresive. The pose is really good; Captures those 'waiting' photos you see and very much captures the period well.

Will he be released as a kit?

cheers

Rob Herring

 

[LCoote]

Welcome Gunnar, Beautiful work indeed, well done

 

[Sculptor64]

Hi and Thanks guys

I'm glad you like it ;-)
And to you Rob...yes it's right that I have done a 1/16 fallshirmjäger for Warriors wich can be seen in ww2modelmaker.com gallery...
The figure is sculpted in magic sculp but the trousers is in sculpey (done a long time ago...)
The head was also done in sculpey and then casted in resin.
If you have any question pls feel free to ask if there is anything you are wondering about and I'll try to answer as good as I can.

Regards/ Gunnar

 

[JCOX]

Hello Gunnar, welcome to the planet!

Your work looks great, very inpiring to me as a beginner in sculpting. Great pose and attitude. Clean work and fine details.

What were the details in dark blue done with - the rank insignia, buttons etc.?

-jim cox

 

[Sculptor64]

Hi again and thanks

The blue details is in fact green...it's the pictures that fools the eyes..the details are made with plain Kneadatite.

Regards/ Gunnar

 

[Patrick Kirk]

Gunnar,
Wow...incredible!
Do you plan to release these commercially? These are excellent! When can we see them painted up?
Hope all is well...

Patrick

 

[gordy]

excellent work! I like the pockets 'bulging' with stuff and the essence of gravity on the foldwork/wrinkles are amazing, do you cut them in before or after the putty has cured/baked?
the face is superb

 

[Sculptor64]

Hi Gordy and thanks

For me wrinkles is very important and make them look like wrinkles and not just dents and impressions in the sculpting material if you understand what I'm after.
I use a combination if firts sculpturing the wrinkles with mostly a plain wooden tool made of an old paintbrush.
I thereafter sometimes "sharpen" up the folds with the a scalpel blade, Swann and Morton no 15C.
This blade is the best I have tried for this work as it's slim and curved and "flex" a bit then working into the folds...

Regards/ Gunnar

 

[gordy]

For me wrinkles is very important and make them look like wrinkles and not just dents

I know what you mean

I use my curved scalpel alot (15T) more for smoothing and scooping..

LOL, I'd quit sculpting if I couldn't get Scotch-Brite or a curved scalpel..

 

[RobH]

Gordy and Gunnar

That's the tip I've been after! Curved scalpel blades for smoothing into folds.

Priceless

(apart from I was at a show yesterday and DIDN'T buy any blades despite staring at some for a while - DANG!)

Rob

 

[Joe Hudson]

Gunnar,

Simply Fantastic! I may have to get back into the W.W.II era after seeing such nice work! Please post more when you can! One other question, do you sculpt in the smaller scales?

Joe

 

[RobH]

Hope Gunnar doesn't mind me posting in these links:

Gunnars Work 1

and

Gunnars Work 2

from WW2Modelmaker.

Have to add, these are superbly painted too!!

Rob

 

[Guy]

Welcome to the "Planet" Gunnar and we are very pleased to have you here with your quality of sculpting and painting. Thanks for sharing and I hope you continue to post your work

Regards,
Guy

 

[Sculptor64]

Hello again guys

This is the best with sculpturing...to share one's work with oters and get all the feedback ...thanks
To Joe, yes I have done som work in 1/35-32nd scale and plan to do more, but I favour 1/16th...we'll see now what will be my "favourite" scale as I really enjoyed working in 1/9th scale
I plan to do a couple of busts in 1/9th scale,a Norwegian volountear from Narva 44 and a "Gebirgsjäger" in 1/9th scale.
I have finished a helmet as the ones I have seen I'm not satified with shapewise

Thanks again

Regards/ Gunnar

 

[garyjd]

Gunnar, Welcome to Planet Figure. Fantastic! I can only echo what the others have said. I almost have my current project done, and was thinking about doing a WW2 figure as a change of pace from my usual interests. Your figure has my mind almost made up. Great stuff.~Gary

 

[yeo_64]

Gunnar,excellent work as always First saw the figure on Missing-lynx "Figure" discussion group today and was bowled over Amazing details and such fluid uniform textures.YOU MUST post here more often so as to inspire us lesser mortals to greater heights Looking forward to the completion of the figure.Cheers Kenneth.

P.S. :Gordy,love the new emoticons;very appropriate for the occasion

 

[RobH]

Hi Gunnar

I would be curious to hear how you sculpt a complex (to me) shape such as a helmet (especially german) in a larger scale. On some levels it sounds easy but I know its not.

Hope you're able to share your future projects with us

Rob

 

[Sculptor64]

Hi Rob

We'll you might not believe this but I have done some work on the helmet mainly sanding ...appropriate word here... on the beach, as we had a rather nice summer here in Sweden...and got some curious looks too ...
To describe how what I did I used a casting of my fallschirmjäger helmet (also done the same wise with a "core" of in that case a cast of commersially availible helmet) and used epoxy putty to put in the basic shapes...not very easy to get the shape I was satified with I discovered, until I got a original helmet shell that I could measure from.
I Put the helmet on paper and drawed the bottom "outline", scaled that down and measured against that. Otherwise one just have to look at lots of pics and work until you geet the feel what "looks" right...

Regards/ Gunnar

 

[Anders Heintz]

Tjena Gunnar!

Fallskärms jägaren ser super ut!! Väldigt läcker. E' det en figur som ska säljas av något foretag?

 

[Panzer]

Gunnar,Glad to have you here at P/F. I will e-mail you tonite. Panzerman