Trenches of Verdun

[Radek]

Hello gentlemen
I'm very pleased of your comments.
Pat this helmet is a conversion of old italeri 1/35 scale helmet. It was too big for 1/35 scale and so I thought that it would suit fine a 1/32 figure, and because of it's size it was easier to convert it into model 1916.
Cheers and many thanks
Radek

 

[Stefano Borin]

Beautifull, beautifull, beautifull!!!

ciao Stefano

 

[Uruk-Hai]

All these comments have left me without anything to add.
I can only say that I like this piece very much Radek, I can only wish it was my own creation.

Cheers
Janne

 

[Radek]

Thanks Stefano and Janne.
I'm very glad that You like it!

 

[Bill Mayo]

The movement in the vignette is really eyecatching. Looks great.

 

[yeo_64]

EXCELLENT JOB,Radoslaw !!! Cheers !
Kenneth .

 

[Roc]

Extremely well done, I like it.

Cheers
Roc.

 

[Radek]

Thanks Bill, Kenneth, Roc!
And Happy New Year 2006 everybody!!

 

[Roc]

A happy 2006 to you, most important a healthy one.

Cheers
Roc.

 

[Figure Mad]

Hi

I realy like the composition of this figure and base, cant wait to see him painted, just great.

Its great that there is a renewed interest in WWI, I know its never been far from our minds, just far enough from our workbenches...

Dave

 

[Dan Morton]

Radek - I initially missed your comment back to me. Sorry about that and thanks very much for the compliment on my On the Wire. Kreston Peckham is painting it and hopefully soon he'll have some WIP photos that we can post.

I really like your vignette. Great action and drama!

There are just so many possible dioramas and vignettes of the Great War! I have far more churning around in my head than I can ever sculpt. I also like working from the photos and illustrations that were part of the illustrated newspapers of the period. If you haven't bought a copy of John Laffin's great book "The Western Front Illustrated - 1914 - 1918", ISBN 0 7509 1438 6, I highly recommend it!

All the best,
Dan

 

[Radek]

Thanks again for kind words.
Dan I will try to buy that book Your're talking about. Thanks. Now I have only Osprey's german army in WW 1 (the first and the second part) and fortifications on the western front. That's a poor collection...But I will try to get more.
Regards
Radek

 

[Radek]

I've finished the base. Maybe I'll add a little more of barbed wire. I couldn't sculp the whole corps, but only the scull. Maybe some day I will mannage to do the whole skelly

Cheers

Radek

 

[megroot]

Radek,

This is a great projekt. I like it. But the metal plate is for me incorrect. This must be a waveplate.
I put in a link, scroll down and you find a picture from an original at the Flanders Fields. Also you can see some stuff what is daily find. Even granate's with poisen gas.

http://www.wo1.be/diggers/N/activiteiten/bommen/welkom.htm

Marc

 

[Radek]

Thanks Marc
Acctually this is a waveplate But I can change it to a more wavy look. I've made once some waveplates for my stalingrad dio. I can use a better looking one.
Cheers

 

[megroot]

Radek,

If you correct it to a better looking one the trence is a great piece of artwork.
Let us say, more accurate.
Keep going, i really find it great.

marc

 

[Radek]

Hello
Well I acctually changed it few minutes ago and now I'm painting. I hope it will look better now. I'll post photos later.
Thanks again.
Radek

 

[Radek]

Hi
I've already changed the plate. Now I'm painting slowly the figure. I don't wan't to mess it up :/
Cheers
Radek

 

[megroot]

Originally posted by Dan Morton@Jan 7 2006, 03:41 PM
What you are calling a metal waveplate, in English is known as corrugated metal.  Could have been tin, iron, steel or some alloy.  And I would disagree that it necessarily must be wavy like corrugated metal.  Battlefields have all kinds of debris from all kinds of sources.  This could have originally come from a local home or a drainage ditch or a farm shed - whatever.  It need not have been brought in by one of the combatants.  Minor point and small beer, I guess. 

Dan

Sorry Dan,

But it is not debris from the battlefield. In WW I waveplate's where used, just as twiggs from trees ( i dont know the english word for Wilgentenen), basket, sandbacks. They where transported to the trenches.
The battlefields are just 50 km away from my home, and i visit them. I must say it is always a waveplate made out of some very thin metal and corrode's very quick.
My father used them as roof for stable's.
Here you see on one of the foto's how it good be used
http://www.wfa-belgie.be/tentoonstelling.htm
So maybe the point is not so big, but very important, and in Belgium they have the best beers of the world

Marc

 

[billyturnip]

Originally posted by megroot@Jan 7 2006, 02:38 PM
in Belgium they have the best beers of the world
Marc

There is absolutely no arguing with that :lol: No matter what kind of debris it is.

Roger.