Some Old Stuff For Roger

[Ray]

These are shots of some of my early figures from the old CIV Miniatures range I promised to share with Roger Newsome a few weeks ago.

The first is a 1/32 scale US Cavalry man from the early 1870's in Swiss blouse which wasn't a very popular item of equipment and didn't last long at all. I'm not a hundred percent sure now as it has been so long since I made this guy but, I think he is the first figure completely scratch build by me. Earlier I made use of Airfix multi-pose figures with all the associated scraping and carving, ugh!

This next figure is also in 1/32 scale and is modeled from a photo in one of the old Squadron books though I don't recall which one. It is Russian, winter 1941-42 when makeshift winter clothing was the norm with many German troops. This guy is wearing long underwear over his uniform for warmth and camouflage.

These next three figures are 1/35 scale WW 2 Germans, a couple tankers and an SS infantryman.

Last are two 1/35 scale female nudes, any period will apply fine, in fact I recall one of my customers of the time using one for a scene in Captain Kirks stateroom.

 

[billyturnip]

Very nice Ray, thank you for posting the pics. I've never seen the swiss blouse worn by the US cavalry fig before, very interesting.

Roger

 

[Ray]

Thanks for looking Roger. Although I was quite proud of these figures when they were new I'm not quite so pleased with them now. However, I accept them as they are being very early figures for me.

Oddly interesting uniform blouse I thought. I don't recall now how long the thing was in service, it seems not long though. The book used for referance can be found at the following link. There are several books in the series each nicely done with an enormous ammount of detail useful to figure modellers and painters.

http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/535/horse soldier 1851 1880 vol ii

Thanks Again for looking Roger.

Ray

 

[fanai]

Always great to review what we have prev done - great insight -

Ian