Completed Critique Pegaso H.W.Guderian

[gothicgeek]

Hi Tommi!

Nice work on this sure to be a classic bust!

I especially like the higher contrast and bold use of colour.

I look forward to your next piece in acrylics

 

[Steve]

Beautiful work Tommi. And what a sculpt! Guderian to the "t"!

 

[DEL]

Mighty fine job Tommi I'm sure your customer will be delighted.
Cheers
Derek

 

[smudger1960]

Great work tommi,i love this bust and i will get round to painting it one day,the sculpt has a great likeness to Guderian and the details are beautiful,thats yours and mark's i've had the pleasure to see now,great work mate

Brian

 

[Tommi]

Great paintwork, Tommi! Do you use Reaper triad , Vallejo and Citadel mixed?

Hi Kaz

I use reaper 09042 to 09048 and for a more rosy finish I use the reaper 09067 to 09069 sets. I blend in the darke areas with Citadel mix of Dwarf Flesh and Blood red and Vallejo 845 Sunny skin tone.

Cheers
Tommi

 

[Tommi]

Tommi, you make me jealous, you have in your shelf an entire army of German figures.
Be careful with the ammunition belt of LB miniatures Fallschirmjäger, they breake down easily.
Pedro.

Hi Pedro

Yes I saw on on the LB busts nicely painted on here a few days ago with the ammo missing, I will be very careful.

I have just received today the new Jeff Shiu 120mm MG gunner, pretty stunning piece, I now nearly have the complete collection of his figures to.

Looking forward to Stuarts, Stormtroopers new MG gunner being released soon, I have already put my name down for one, looks another super piece.

I also have the new limited edition Chris Mrsoko 200mm MG gunner coming to me in the next few weeks so will need to get the paint rollers out for this one.

Cheers

Tommi

 

[Tommi]

Roger

Thank you for the praise. I think that in a forum where the only mean of communication is the written word, among people in the majority strange to one another (even with common interests, i´ve never had a beer with any of you, for example), misinterpretation is a easy path to confusion and problems.

Tommi

About your paintwok, stunning as always. I liked a lot of the greenish tone of feldgrau you did; it goes well with an "old guard" like Guderian.

But the ribbon on the second buttonhole is wrong.

Since Guderian recieved both classes of the Iron Cross in the First World War, his ribbon with clasp (indicating the second award) should be in black and white, like the Imperial Iron Cross previously recieved.

The ribbon and clasp would be like this:

Here, another photo, showing the Iron Cross 1st class with the WW2 award clasp:

I hope you don´t mind me making this observation; i mean it to be constructive , since this is part of my job and my passion.

All the best

Filipe from Brazil

Hello Filipe

Many thanks for the info, nice to be corrected on historical inaccuracies by people who know a lot more on the subject than I do (Me -10% knowledge)

I will make the adjustment this week before sending out to the collector.

Also was searching on the web for info in the shoulder boards and found it difficult to find an illustration of the boards sculpted onto the bust, lots of examples of the weave with the embedded metal insignia but all showing with the braiding being mouthed on a red back board, this is not present on the bust so am not entirely sure that this is 100% correct? I could be wrong!

Cheers
Tommi

 

[Filipe]

Tommi

About the shoulder board, two things:

1- Keep in mind that the "old guards" of WW2, like Guderian or von Rundstedt, sometimes had "non regulation" details on their uniforms, for different reasons; even general MacArthur, of the US Army, had a "non regulation" detail on his uniform (his cap). But this is not the case here, it´s just a "heads up"...

2- The cloth background representing the branch (red for army, light green for polizei, etc) usually was worn on the tunic uniform, like on this photo of Generaloberst Hube:

On the greatcoats, it was unusual for general officers to use it (i do not know the specifically Heer regulation, to be honest). Like this photo here of Guderian, that probably inspired the sculptor, because of the facial expression:

Note the shoulder board, without back board.

Hence, it should be with gold and silver trim, with three silvered stars pipping, like this:

I hope that i helped. If you need anything, feel free to ask. But i advise that i am better informed on the Imperial German Army than the WW2.

Best regards

Filipe from Brazil

 

[John Bowery]

Tommi, Another fine painting and excellent colours. Cheers John

 

[Steve Ski]

Love them blood shot eyes Tommi, very well done all over! Kinda looks like Tom Selleck


Cheers, Ski.