Andy Garringer
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Greetings everyone!
I am new here and I have been tossing back and forth the idea of creating a line of busts from the Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876. I was thinking of 1:6 scale but am not sure if this is the best scale or should I say, the most popular scale in military modeling. I had two reasons for this decisions: one was more impressive display and secondly, my eyes when painting are getting worse and I thought the larger scale might be more welcome. Would you mind sharing your thoughts on preferred scale? Do you prefer busts (watch it!) or full figures?
I noticed a poll concerning accuracy and these would be as accurate as I can get based on the information we know of the people involved but also trying to make it a pleasing, story telling pose. My thoughts in this series would be participates from the battle in different "recorded event" poses such as:
Lt. Col. George Custer: holding lowered binoculars from when he first viewed the Indian camp from the Crow’s nest. Possibly two different head choices, one with hat, one without.
Crazy Horse: holding his winchester above his head with one hand and war shield in the other.
Captain Tom Custer: Holding his colt revolver in left hand, cylinder open. His right hand reaching back to get another cartridge, face with look of surprise.
Sitting Bull: Holding a bull buffalo skull out in front, eagle bone whistle in his mouth, 50 cuts on each arms, during his sundance where he had a premonition of the defeat of the 7th a few days prior to the battle.
Benteen: Holding his hat in one hand and Custer’s last message he just received from trumpeter John Martin
Just some initial ideas. I have made contact with a sculptor and we will be using photos of real items and the real people when available to make these as authentic and accurate as possible. I will be contacting a caster soon to get prices in order and to see if this is even doable.
This would be my first endeavor in something like this and I want to start off in a good way. Please share your thoughts on scale, subject matter, etc … positive or negative on this idea. You could share your thoughts here on this forum or email me [email protected].
I hope I can make this happen but I can't promise right now. Thank you so much for you time.
I am new here and I have been tossing back and forth the idea of creating a line of busts from the Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876. I was thinking of 1:6 scale but am not sure if this is the best scale or should I say, the most popular scale in military modeling. I had two reasons for this decisions: one was more impressive display and secondly, my eyes when painting are getting worse and I thought the larger scale might be more welcome. Would you mind sharing your thoughts on preferred scale? Do you prefer busts (watch it!) or full figures?
I noticed a poll concerning accuracy and these would be as accurate as I can get based on the information we know of the people involved but also trying to make it a pleasing, story telling pose. My thoughts in this series would be participates from the battle in different "recorded event" poses such as:
Lt. Col. George Custer: holding lowered binoculars from when he first viewed the Indian camp from the Crow’s nest. Possibly two different head choices, one with hat, one without.
Crazy Horse: holding his winchester above his head with one hand and war shield in the other.
Captain Tom Custer: Holding his colt revolver in left hand, cylinder open. His right hand reaching back to get another cartridge, face with look of surprise.
Sitting Bull: Holding a bull buffalo skull out in front, eagle bone whistle in his mouth, 50 cuts on each arms, during his sundance where he had a premonition of the defeat of the 7th a few days prior to the battle.
Benteen: Holding his hat in one hand and Custer’s last message he just received from trumpeter John Martin
Just some initial ideas. I have made contact with a sculptor and we will be using photos of real items and the real people when available to make these as authentic and accurate as possible. I will be contacting a caster soon to get prices in order and to see if this is even doable.
This would be my first endeavor in something like this and I want to start off in a good way. Please share your thoughts on scale, subject matter, etc … positive or negative on this idea. You could share your thoughts here on this forum or email me [email protected].
I hope I can make this happen but I can't promise right now. Thank you so much for you time.
