W.A.S.P. bust "redo"

[pokrad]

"Redo" of an old bust:

Hair needs a bit of improvement...

 

[Rob]

"Redo" of an old bust.......Hair needs a bit of improvement...

Yes, her face is lovely and the uniform detail looks spot on but her hairstyle is not 1940s. Are you going to get her printed?

 

[pokrad]

I have 4-5 old busts that I did not "use" (print or sell), thinking of rewamping them a bit and putting on sketchfab
This is the first one, and was perferct to start after a long pause...

 

[Nap]

Hi Pokrad

Great to see you back sculpting and a good choice as well

Interesting subject , she looks good but agree with Rob ref hairstyle

Is this based on a picture ?

Look forward to seeing more

Happy sculpting

Nap

 

[pokrad]

Loosely based on these two:

but I used few others too...

I think I'll try to make the hair more like the original pic...

 

[Rob]

The girl in that first picture is lovely. I think that is about as "informal" as girls in service would have wanted or been allowed to go.
She will make for a really nice bust.

 

[pokrad]

Shortened the hair, this is just rough volume now, but I think it is closer to the ref...

 

[Nap]

Much better on the hair , I would take away the pieces hanging by the eyes ....opening the face up

Nap

 

[pokrad]

Played a bit with the hair volume, removed some hair strands, now I have to make this ugly blob look like a hair:

 

[Rob]

Played a bit with the hair volume, removed some hair strands, now I have to make this ugly blob look like a hair:

Much better without the bangs, they are a modern style not suited to the 1940s. I still think her hair needs more formal structure, maybe outward opening curls on both sides of the face, out and back rather than soft wave into the neck and face.
Difficult to get an impression of historical era in what is essentially a bland, timeless uniform style so you only have the hair to play with. I assume this is why the few existing figures of WASPs/WAAFs have gone with a flight suit and webbing rather than full uniform. Easier to date a flight jacket and parachute harness to WW2 even if seeing them on a girl from that era is unusual.

 

[pokrad]

I do not know, volumes for curly hair are hard...
And a quick test color mockup:

 

[pokrad]

More details on hair, at the moment I am thinking about starting it from scratch

And the clean sculpt without color:

 

[Rob]

I think she looks a lot better. For fun I had a play with your earlier picture in photoshop and came up with:

Pretty close to your later ones. I think removing the hair from her forehead as you also did helps a lot, you could also try repositioning the beret more to the back of her head, like the pretty girl in your concept picture, or the one below, that seems to have been a popular way of wearing it.

I hope you do get her done and that someone will do some prints or casts, I think she would make a really nice 1/9 or 1/10 scale model to paint.

 

[pokrad]

Tried that too, (not as much back as on the pic) but something is still off...

 

[Nap]

Hi Pokrad

She is definately getting there , hair looks better now

With the beret more back I think the hair needs more body , looks like there are several curled areas in the picture Rob posted

Interesting to follow this

Nap

 

[Rob]

That is certainly the best one yet.
The girls in the photos are both wearing the beret very casually, like a soft cap. Neither have the pressed down side beloved by uniform regulations. It is forming a sort of angled halo around the top & rear of the head.
As for the hair, I think you have the shape and mass right, it just lacks any sense of softness and "life".
I have this figure saved in my list for possible purchase via Etsy:

3D by "White Werewolf Tavern". The way the sculptor has manipulated specific sections of the hair into waves and curls that stand apart from the main bulk brings it to life. In a less fantastical style could you curl the WASP girls hair out and around the beret rim and her face similarly to the girls in the photos?

 

[pokrad]

Sure, but as volume in the front grows, the beret has to go more back...
And this is the max I can get without resculpting the beret...

 

[Rob]

That is very good, you have pretty much hit the hairstyle of 3 out of the 4 girls in this photo, especially so the ones on the outside.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81fludd5bGL.jpg

I am sure you can continue to tweak and refine things but that is certainly a figure I would buy to paint (1/9 or 1/10). WW2 per se is not usually my thing, but girls in distinctive costume certainly are.
I did find an image on the web with one of the WASP senior officers in that uniform with an RAF blue shirt as an option to the white.

 

[pokrad]

Yes, that hair now needs a cleanup, and possibly some separated hairstrands to break the volume a bit...

Also, there is an old (very old and ugly) bust of ATA girl that I plan to redo too
With that one I'll start from scratch and try to replicate this image:

 

[pokrad]

Hair cleaned up, I think I had enough of this one