Martin Antonenko
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LOL......Okay will sort something out when the cross on medal is done ....currently primed in black though
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I'm loving this!
Agree Phil ...if mine turns out half as good I will be happy !!
You would do a nice job on it !
Nap
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Having read from the beginning and the work done on the bust, this is some undertaking. Excellent painting and research.
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45. and 46. Day, February 1 and 2, 2021
It is to report that my inner rivet counter has spoken out very seriously! Suddenly he was crouching on my shoulder ...
... and hissed in my ear:
"If the veteran has a hermaphrodite medal on his chest, give him one too ...!"
Sigh, what else could I do?
And then this one ...:
It is the Jubilee Medal awarded to veterans on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War in 2010.
All that remains is the "exotic" with the cross and the medal on the George's clasp that hangs at the top ...:
Cheers
It is to report that my inner rivet counter has spoken out very seriously! Suddenly he was crouching on my shoulder ...
... and hissed in my ear:
"If the veteran has a hermaphrodite medal on his chest, give him one too ...!"
Sigh, what else could I do?
And then this one ...:
It is the Jubilee Medal awarded to veterans on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War in 2010.
All that remains is the "exotic" with the cross and the medal on the George's clasp that hangs at the top ...:
Cheers
Martin
What are you like .....lol ...that rivet counter sitting there as well
A great result on the right hand side ...after the cross is finished ....tomorrow ?
Look forward to the next instalment
Happy bench-time
Nap
What are you like .....lol ...that rivet counter sitting there as well
A great result on the right hand side ...after the cross is finished ....tomorrow ?
Look forward to the next instalment
Happy bench-time
Nap
Martin Antonenko
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This is the plan...
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46. Day, February 3, 2021
In several photos, our veteran wears a medal that does not match the others at all - the ribbon shows the Russian tricolor and the cross shape clearly stands out from the round medal monotony on his hero’s breast ...:
Reason enough for me to go back to work - and sculpt the thing.
It's about this medal here - and he CANNOT have acquired it as a soldier, because then he would have to be around 120 years old ...:
It is the "Cross in memory of General Bredov's campaign" (Russian: Крест похода генерала Бредова) - and is an award of the "whites" from the Russian civil war!
The story of this award is quite interesting - and almost completely unknown in the West - so I'll tell you quickly:
We flash back to 1920, the final phase of the fighting between "Reds" and "Whites" during the civil war:
The “white” armies against the Bolsheviks are almost defeated on all fronts, and a large part of the surviving “white” armed forces have rallied in the Crimea.
The previous Commander in Chief General Anton Ivanovich Denikin ...
... has resigned or was sent into the desert (both as well as!), Lieutenant General Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel is in command in the Crimea ...
… übernommen.
He is the only one of the “white” leaders who not only thought in military terms but also had something like a political vision.
While trying to consolidate the broken up remnants of the “white” armed forces in the Crimea, he simultaneously introduced democratic principles of local self-government and initiated a land reform that largely expropriated large landowners in favor of the peasants.
He used an irrefutable argument to the landowners, who of course didn't like that at all: "It is better to lose a lot than to lose EVERYTHING!"
As a clear sign that a new wind was blowing, the banned the previous name of the "white" troops - "Volunteer Army", and replaced it with "Russian Army"!
The name "volunteer army" was completely discredited by excesses of violence (especially against Jews and workers) of the troops and the scandalous behavior of their officers in the rear - and drove the Bolsheviks to masses of new supporters (and fighters).
While Lieutenant General Wrangel was still trying to save what could not be saved in the Crimea shortly before the end of the day, the “Reds” calmly rolled up the Black Sea coast of Ukraine and took one port after the other.
When the "red" units under the command of the later Soviet Marshal Alexander Ilyich Yegorov ...
... approaching the most important port city, Odessa, Wrangel entrusted one of his best commanders, Lieutenant General Nikolaj Emiljewitsch Bredow ...
... with the order for the remnants of the "white" associations that are still there.
Bredow took command on January 11, 1920, came, saw - and quickly realized that Odessa...
... cannot be defended, but that the fall of the port city "by the Bolsheviks is a matter of several days".
While in Odessa frightened civilians and demoralized soldiers stormed the port and sometimes bloody fights in the far too few places from evacuation ships delivered ...
... Bredow collected the remaining combat-ready and willing "white" associations. Not quite 20,000 bayonets came together!
When the troops marched out of Odessa, they were joined by thousands of civilians, including a large group of German colonists, a department "Rescue of the Motherland", parts of the garrison of Odessa and the surrounding area, departments of border and police officers and up to 3,000 civilians.
In the dead of winter, the column marched off to the northwest - a few days later, Odessa fell to the "Reds" ...
... and the Cheka established a regiment of terror.
Bredow had no intention of giving up, but wanted to continue the fight against the "Reds"!
Since the way to the Crimea was blocked for him, he decided to first switch to the relative security of the nearby territory of the Kingdom of Romania.
But when the column reached the then border town of Tiraspol, the Romanians refused Bredow's column to cross the border!
Since Bredow decided to disarm his troops (he wanted to continue the fight), crossing the border for Romania would have inevitably meant being drawn into the Russian civil war!
The Romanians blew up the ice of the border river Dniester, deployed artillery on their banks and threatened to shoot at the Russians should they invade their country ...:
In this situation, with the Romanian cannons in front of him, the "Reds" behind him, Bredow decided to join the Polish troops of Marshal Józef Klemens Piłsudski, who were also fighting the Bolsheviks ...
... to search - only: Poland was far!
On the night of January 30th, General Bredov gave the order to move north along the Dniester - to break through to Poland or Galicia. An unprecedented 700 werst winter forced march began under constant pressure from the Red Army ...:
Big cities had to bypass, they were occupied by the "Reds" - and Bredow did not have artillery - the draft animals had to serve as food!
In addition, a typhus epidemic was rampant in the column, over 2,000 sick people had to be dragged along!
But Bredow got his column through - almost 30,000 people, soldiers and civilians, reached Polish territory!
Lieutenant General Wrangel was so impressed with the performance of the troops that on February 25, 1922, with Order No. 206, he donated an award to those taking part in the campaign - "as a reward for duty and hard work and privation by the ranks of the Department of General NE Bredov, who fought their way from Tiraspol to Poland in the cold winter season. "
This is the award our hero wears.
The devil knows how he got there.
Addendum:
General Bredow actually managed to return to the Crimea with 7,000 soldiers and to join Wrangel's army on August 11, 1920. The new 6th and 7th infantry divisions of the "Russian Army" were formed from these troops.
When Wrangel's rule in the Crimea collapsed, Bredow was evacuated by ship to Turkey and then lived in Bulgaria, during the Second World War he headed the hospital there for the crippled and sick soldiers of the Russian Red Cross Society in the city of Shipka ..:
In October 1944, Bredow was arrested by the NKVD in Bulgaria. After interrogation, he was handed over to the Yugoslav counterintelligence agency OZN. His further fate is unknown.
Cheers
In several photos, our veteran wears a medal that does not match the others at all - the ribbon shows the Russian tricolor and the cross shape clearly stands out from the round medal monotony on his hero’s breast ...:
Reason enough for me to go back to work - and sculpt the thing.
It's about this medal here - and he CANNOT have acquired it as a soldier, because then he would have to be around 120 years old ...:
It is the "Cross in memory of General Bredov's campaign" (Russian: Крест похода генерала Бредова) - and is an award of the "whites" from the Russian civil war!
The story of this award is quite interesting - and almost completely unknown in the West - so I'll tell you quickly:
We flash back to 1920, the final phase of the fighting between "Reds" and "Whites" during the civil war:
The “white” armies against the Bolsheviks are almost defeated on all fronts, and a large part of the surviving “white” armed forces have rallied in the Crimea.
The previous Commander in Chief General Anton Ivanovich Denikin ...
... has resigned or was sent into the desert (both as well as!), Lieutenant General Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel is in command in the Crimea ...
… übernommen.
He is the only one of the “white” leaders who not only thought in military terms but also had something like a political vision.
While trying to consolidate the broken up remnants of the “white” armed forces in the Crimea, he simultaneously introduced democratic principles of local self-government and initiated a land reform that largely expropriated large landowners in favor of the peasants.
He used an irrefutable argument to the landowners, who of course didn't like that at all: "It is better to lose a lot than to lose EVERYTHING!"
As a clear sign that a new wind was blowing, the banned the previous name of the "white" troops - "Volunteer Army", and replaced it with "Russian Army"!
The name "volunteer army" was completely discredited by excesses of violence (especially against Jews and workers) of the troops and the scandalous behavior of their officers in the rear - and drove the Bolsheviks to masses of new supporters (and fighters).
While Lieutenant General Wrangel was still trying to save what could not be saved in the Crimea shortly before the end of the day, the “Reds” calmly rolled up the Black Sea coast of Ukraine and took one port after the other.
When the "red" units under the command of the later Soviet Marshal Alexander Ilyich Yegorov ...
... approaching the most important port city, Odessa, Wrangel entrusted one of his best commanders, Lieutenant General Nikolaj Emiljewitsch Bredow ...
... with the order for the remnants of the "white" associations that are still there.
Bredow took command on January 11, 1920, came, saw - and quickly realized that Odessa...
... cannot be defended, but that the fall of the port city "by the Bolsheviks is a matter of several days".
While in Odessa frightened civilians and demoralized soldiers stormed the port and sometimes bloody fights in the far too few places from evacuation ships delivered ...
... Bredow collected the remaining combat-ready and willing "white" associations. Not quite 20,000 bayonets came together!
When the troops marched out of Odessa, they were joined by thousands of civilians, including a large group of German colonists, a department "Rescue of the Motherland", parts of the garrison of Odessa and the surrounding area, departments of border and police officers and up to 3,000 civilians.
In the dead of winter, the column marched off to the northwest - a few days later, Odessa fell to the "Reds" ...
... and the Cheka established a regiment of terror.
Bredow had no intention of giving up, but wanted to continue the fight against the "Reds"!
Since the way to the Crimea was blocked for him, he decided to first switch to the relative security of the nearby territory of the Kingdom of Romania.
But when the column reached the then border town of Tiraspol, the Romanians refused Bredow's column to cross the border!
Since Bredow decided to disarm his troops (he wanted to continue the fight), crossing the border for Romania would have inevitably meant being drawn into the Russian civil war!
The Romanians blew up the ice of the border river Dniester, deployed artillery on their banks and threatened to shoot at the Russians should they invade their country ...:
In this situation, with the Romanian cannons in front of him, the "Reds" behind him, Bredow decided to join the Polish troops of Marshal Józef Klemens Piłsudski, who were also fighting the Bolsheviks ...
... to search - only: Poland was far!
On the night of January 30th, General Bredov gave the order to move north along the Dniester - to break through to Poland or Galicia. An unprecedented 700 werst winter forced march began under constant pressure from the Red Army ...:
Big cities had to bypass, they were occupied by the "Reds" - and Bredow did not have artillery - the draft animals had to serve as food!
In addition, a typhus epidemic was rampant in the column, over 2,000 sick people had to be dragged along!
But Bredow got his column through - almost 30,000 people, soldiers and civilians, reached Polish territory!
Lieutenant General Wrangel was so impressed with the performance of the troops that on February 25, 1922, with Order No. 206, he donated an award to those taking part in the campaign - "as a reward for duty and hard work and privation by the ranks of the Department of General NE Bredov, who fought their way from Tiraspol to Poland in the cold winter season. "
This is the award our hero wears.
The devil knows how he got there.
Addendum:
General Bredow actually managed to return to the Crimea with 7,000 soldiers and to join Wrangel's army on August 11, 1920. The new 6th and 7th infantry divisions of the "Russian Army" were formed from these troops.
When Wrangel's rule in the Crimea collapsed, Bredow was evacuated by ship to Turkey and then lived in Bulgaria, during the Second World War he headed the hospital there for the crippled and sick soldiers of the Russian Red Cross Society in the city of Shipka ..:
In October 1944, Bredow was arrested by the NKVD in Bulgaria. After interrogation, he was handed over to the Yugoslav counterintelligence agency OZN. His further fate is unknown.
Cheers
Martin
On this update I wish I could put more than a "like" ....wonderful detailed background on the medals history
With all the rows on the right done less one the impressive array looks great painted ...all credit to you
The cross certainly stands out .....why do you think he has it on ? .......perhaps a family member was awarded it ?
A question ...with the medals he has would it be acceptable to change the epaulette piping to another part of the Russian forces ?
Thanks for update again
Happy benchtime
Nap
On this update I wish I could put more than a "like" ....wonderful detailed background on the medals history
With all the rows on the right done less one the impressive array looks great painted ...all credit to you
The cross certainly stands out .....why do you think he has it on ? .......perhaps a family member was awarded it ?
A question ...with the medals he has would it be acceptable to change the epaulette piping to another part of the Russian forces ?
Thanks for update again
Happy benchtime
Nap
Martin Antonenko
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Sure, but it should be ground troops
Just not aviators or navy, they received other medals ...
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Excellent piece of history Martin, with quality photos again. I knew of Bredov's march, having read a lot on the Russian Civil War. Seems like the "Reds" got him in the end, albeit Tito's lot. I think our old friend is a medal collector
Phil
Phil
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47. Day, February 4, 2021
The last medal our hero wears at the top is not a state-Soviet or Russian award, but it was donated by the city of Moscow for veterans - and commemorates the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Moscow in the winter of 1941 ...:
However: If we look closely, our hero has somehow lost the "65" on the ribbon ...:
So I paint the "birdie" like this ...:
And here again the whole "tinsel" on the left hero's breast in an overview ...:
Honest! I'm not doing this to myself again that quickly!
Cheers
The last medal our hero wears at the top is not a state-Soviet or Russian award, but it was donated by the city of Moscow for veterans - and commemorates the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Moscow in the winter of 1941 ...:
However: If we look closely, our hero has somehow lost the "65" on the ribbon ...:
So I paint the "birdie" like this ...:
And here again the whole "tinsel" on the left hero's breast in an overview ...:
Honest! I'm not doing this to myself again that quickly!
Cheers
Hi Martin
What a result !!!....WOW!!!!!!?......but come on thought the "65" would be added ......LOL
It's certainly a big challenge with all the medals and research ....much appreciated both in the references and seeing the painting results
Am I looking forward to my version .........yes ...I think ...lol
Onwards and upwards ...a very well deserved beer for you
Happy benchtime
Nap
PS have you tried dry fitted the right arm and hand in particular with any issues ?
What a result !!!....WOW!!!!!!?......but come on thought the "65" would be added ......LOL
It's certainly a big challenge with all the medals and research ....much appreciated both in the references and seeing the painting results
Am I looking forward to my version .........yes ...I think ...lol
Onwards and upwards ...a very well deserved beer for you
Happy benchtime
Nap
PS have you tried dry fitted the right arm and hand in particular with any issues ?
KenBoyle
PlanetFigure Supporter
A fantastic wealth of information Martin! And beautiful work on the bust.
Cheers,
Ken
Cheers,
Ken
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48. Day, February 5, 2021
I continue with the so-called "Georges ribbon" ...
... which our hero wears...:
In Russia, these George colors have always played an important role in the iconography of awards that reward outstanding military achievements.
The colors orange and black symbolize fire and smoke, the side effects of the fight!
Orders that were worn on George ribbon existed in the Tsarist Empire ...
... and in the Russian civil war (on the side of the "whites") ...:
In the Soviet Union, where - also with medals and awards - one deliberately wanted to do everything differently than under the ancien régime, there was no avoiding reintroduction of the George ribbon in 1943 and the so-called "Order of Glory" on ...
... which was nothing else than the Soviet version of the Tsarist George Cross (see above), just in the form of a Soviet star instead of the Christian cross of the pre-revolutionary era!
In the Russian Federation, the old Tsarist George Cross was promptly reintroduced in all classes ...
... and the Soviet Nakhimov Order ...
... an award for members of the Navy, reminiscent of the defenders of Sebastopol in the Crimean War, promptly given a new shape (cross instead of star!) - and hung it on a George ribbon ...:
Under the rule of Vasya Kagebeyevich Putin, they went even further:
The old Soviet parade paint for heavy equipment ...
... was replaced by a new one: Tanks and other heavy equipment are painted on the sides with a George ribbon especially for parades today ...:
Even venerable Soviet T-34s are decorated in this way when they are allowed to roll over Red Square on May 9th, the "Victory Day" ...:
In addition, the landlord has introduced the new custom that on this special day everyone - whether civilian or military - should wear a Georgian ribbon on their collar, which hundreds of thousands are brought to the people for this occasion and also worn!
All of this may seem a bit strange to us "Westerners", but the victory over Nazi Germany when one - regardless of whether Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians, Kazakhs, Bashkirs, Cossacks or Buryats - fought together for ONE goal is a social glue that the people of former Soviet Union holds together to this day!
They are all proud of this victory (there is hardly a family in the successor states of the Soviet Union that does not have at least one death to mourn during these dark times!) and shows it!
Even the landlord is not too bad to have his valet put a Georgian band on his tailor-made suit on May 9th ...:
I have one too, of course, and I wear it on May 9th!
The inventors of the Georgs colors orange and black in the form of long, thin stripes could not have known at the time that there would one day be some crazy people who would paint these things on miniature figures!
Because as decorative as these ribbons are, they also paint themselves as ******!
But at least I got it ...:
So much for today.
Cheers
I continue with the so-called "Georges ribbon" ...
... which our hero wears...:
In Russia, these George colors have always played an important role in the iconography of awards that reward outstanding military achievements.
The colors orange and black symbolize fire and smoke, the side effects of the fight!
Orders that were worn on George ribbon existed in the Tsarist Empire ...
... and in the Russian civil war (on the side of the "whites") ...:
In the Soviet Union, where - also with medals and awards - one deliberately wanted to do everything differently than under the ancien régime, there was no avoiding reintroduction of the George ribbon in 1943 and the so-called "Order of Glory" on ...
... which was nothing else than the Soviet version of the Tsarist George Cross (see above), just in the form of a Soviet star instead of the Christian cross of the pre-revolutionary era!
In the Russian Federation, the old Tsarist George Cross was promptly reintroduced in all classes ...
... and the Soviet Nakhimov Order ...
... an award for members of the Navy, reminiscent of the defenders of Sebastopol in the Crimean War, promptly given a new shape (cross instead of star!) - and hung it on a George ribbon ...:
Under the rule of Vasya Kagebeyevich Putin, they went even further:
The old Soviet parade paint for heavy equipment ...
... was replaced by a new one: Tanks and other heavy equipment are painted on the sides with a George ribbon especially for parades today ...:
Even venerable Soviet T-34s are decorated in this way when they are allowed to roll over Red Square on May 9th, the "Victory Day" ...:
In addition, the landlord has introduced the new custom that on this special day everyone - whether civilian or military - should wear a Georgian ribbon on their collar, which hundreds of thousands are brought to the people for this occasion and also worn!
All of this may seem a bit strange to us "Westerners", but the victory over Nazi Germany when one - regardless of whether Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians, Kazakhs, Bashkirs, Cossacks or Buryats - fought together for ONE goal is a social glue that the people of former Soviet Union holds together to this day!
They are all proud of this victory (there is hardly a family in the successor states of the Soviet Union that does not have at least one death to mourn during these dark times!) and shows it!
Even the landlord is not too bad to have his valet put a Georgian band on his tailor-made suit on May 9th ...:
I have one too, of course, and I wear it on May 9th!
The inventors of the Georgs colors orange and black in the form of long, thin stripes could not have known at the time that there would one day be some crazy people who would paint these things on miniature figures!
Because as decorative as these ribbons are, they also paint themselves as ******!
But at least I got it ...:
So much for today.
Cheers
Hi Martin
Thanks for today's update ...and history on the ribbon itself ...interesting
Neat painting on the ribbon esoecially on such a small depth
Looking good
Look forward to seeing the badge on it painted up
Happy benchtime
Nap
Thanks for today's update ...and history on the ribbon itself ...interesting
Neat painting on the ribbon esoecially on such a small depth
Looking good
Look forward to seeing the badge on it painted up
Happy benchtime
Nap
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