Painted Bust Presentation for WWII Vets

[Nick Majerus]

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I have been donating painted figures to my Regiment’s Annual Reunion (3^rd Inf. Regt. “The Old Guard”) and to the Oregon Cascade Chapter of the 101^st Abn. Div. Annual Picnic for the last three years.

In the Fall of 2010 I learned that the Oregon Cascade Chapter had two “Famous” members—Mr. Don Malarkey and Mr. Bill Wingett, both members of Easy Company 506^th PIR, “The Band of Brothers”. I decided to paint a figure for each of them. I converted two Young busts for the project

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Bill Wingett’s figure was presented at a group breakfast.

Bill Wingett E Company 506th PIR
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Upon his receiving it, other WWII Vets asked, “Where is ours?” So, I decided to do something for them also. That turned into thirteen more busts! I used a Coree body and a Warrior head to make a new bust that would be easier to paint. For the AAF Vet I had a Legend and Lore bust of Jimmy Stewart.

Painted Busts for presentation
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These were presented to the Vets who were present at the picnic.

Cliff Brooks, F Company 502nd PIR





Dale Harlen E Company 502nd PIR





Mike Reuter, 2nd Bn 509th PIR





Steve Healy AAF





Frank Spiegel, Company F 502nd PIR
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Mr. Don Malarkey celebrated his 90^th birthday on July 31 and his figure was presented there. Also present that day was “Buck” Compton (The Band of Brothers) and Al Phillips, Company A 377^th Abn. Arty.

Buck Compton & Don Malarkey E Company 506th PIR

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Another Young bust was donated to the picnic raffle and raised $510! Go Airborne!! All proceeds went to the 101^st Div. charities.

Auction bust of Paratrooper
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I think this is a neat way to thank our Vets and you may want to do the same in your area.

Nick Majerus

 

[Guy]

Re: Painted Bust Presentation for WWI Vets

Fantastic thing to do Nick. It sure involved a lot of painting.

 

[SPrimeau]

Re: Painted Bust Presentation for WWI Vets

This is great Nick! Thanks for sharing these pictures.
Scott

 

[captnenglish]

What an outstanding idea!

 

[Kreston]

That is just fantastic!

 

[Anders Heintz]

Way to go Nick. Excellent way of honoring our Vet's through figures. Excellent!

 

[Ventress]

Outstanding tribute to these outstanding Gentlemen!!

 

[FigureLover]

I bet those vets loved what you did. Very generous of you to go out of your way and paint up all the busts.
Ben

 

[Joseph Brubaker]

What a great gesture Sir for Great men who served this country so that we can live they way we live today,thank you for your time in Honoring them,thank you for your post and pictures...............Joseph

 

[PHIL WALDEN]

Nick,..
mate what you are doing is some think very special, just to see the faces of those once young men...you have done them proud..
thanks for the pic's cobber...Phil.

 

[Nick Majerus]

Guy, Scott, Matthew, Kreston, Anders, Rob, Ben, Joseph, Phil, and all who posted a "Like", thank you for your comments. I wished I could have been there for the presentation, but the pictures with the smile on their faces was well worth the time and effort to do this.

Nick Majerus

 

[housecarl]

Congratulations on a job well done Nick.
Carl.

 

[Jamie Stokes]

Bravo Nick, Bravo!!

This kind of thing defines where our hobby meets living history!

Cheers

 

[kagemusha]

Outstanding achievement Nick. Congratulations to you and the surviving recipients for a job well done.

Regards

Ron

 

[pmfs]

Do you know this?...

Great gesture Nick, this heroes deserve everything good because what they did for our society.
Talking about "easy" here´s link about project of a little boy from USA, he want to collect much money as possible selling his bracelets for these heroes have a memorial in St.Marie du Mont little French town one of many liberate of Nazi hands by "easy company".
With this selfless gesture this boy just want to sell bracelets to earn much money for is dream becomes a reality and the honor and courage of these heroes will never be forgotten.
I have mine for sometime the bracelet costs only 1 dollar and is tax-deductible, PLEASE see the link does not cost anything to you and can make a difference, think about that!

 

[sd0324]

Good on you Nick,what a great thing you have done. Hope to see you in Chicago.

 

[Dan Morton]

What an outstanding thing to do, Nick! Waytogo!

All the best,
Dan

 

[pgarri27]

You are a Great American to honor all those other Great Americans.

 

[megroot]

Great idea.
Great presentation to the vets....

Marc

 

[Sambaman]

Way to go Nick!

Jay H.