billyturnip
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This is a 90mm figure of a Bersaglieri cyclist from The Great War that I did some time ago.
Roger
Roger
WW1 Bersaglieri For Marcello
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marcellin de marbot
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Hi Roger,
Thanks for this picture. Nice figure, even if I think it's dated, wiewing the style of sculpture. Which is the producer?
Marcello
Thanks for this picture. Nice figure, even if I think it's dated, wiewing the style of sculpture. Which is the producer?
Marcello
billyturnip
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Hi Marcello,
It is by Friulmodellismo and yes I think it's pretty old. Having said that it is nice to have in the collection due to the subject.
Roger
It is by Friulmodellismo and yes I think it's pretty old. Having said that it is nice to have in the collection due to the subject.
Roger
eissteban
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hi roger
You surprised me again with an unusual figure
beautiful release bravo
I think that Italian army is the large one forgotten and some of great units like arditi, bersaglieri, alpini, san marco, paratroopers or frog men would be most present in our little world (that's why i make a german dio !)
Seb.
You surprised me again with an unusual figure
beautiful release bravo
I think that Italian army is the large one forgotten and some of great units like arditi, bersaglieri, alpini, san marco, paratroopers or frog men would be most present in our little world (that's why i make a german dio
!)Seb.
billyturnip
A Fixture
Thank you fella's.
Christos, the casting is very good, very little clean up was needed but very "chunky" by todays standards. I think nowadays this figure would benefit from being cast in resin. It is a big chunk of metal!
Seb, as Marcello as shown in the images he posted there are a lot of very interesting Italian subjects that are yet to be portryed in miniature. Here's hoping.
Roger
Christos, the casting is very good, very little clean up was needed but very "chunky" by todays standards. I think nowadays this figure would benefit from being cast in resin. It is a big chunk of metal!
Seb, as Marcello as shown in the images he posted there are a lot of very interesting Italian subjects that are yet to be portryed in miniature. Here's hoping.
Roger
flart1943
A Fixture
Nice one
Nice one Roger. More back models to come I hope.
Pete
Nice one Roger. More back models to come I hope
.Pete
billyturnip
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Cheers Pete I will see what else is lurking in the back of the cabinet.
Roger
Roger
marcellin de marbot
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Hey Roger,
Do you know this man and the symbol on his Spad VII?
Cheers
M
Do you know this man and the symbol on his Spad VII?
Cheers
M
billyturnip
A Fixture
Marcello,
Who else but Francesco Baracca. The prancing horse on his Spad VII was later used by Enzo Ferrari but of course you knew that.
Roger
Who else but Francesco Baracca. The prancing horse on his Spad VII was later used by Enzo Ferrari but of course you knew that.
Roger
marcellin de marbot
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Hi Roger,
Do you know the story of this? The prancing horse was choosed by Baracca because he was an officer of Cavalry Corp, as almost all the aviators of WWI. He was an ace of that War, having scored 34 enemy aircrafts. On june 1918 he died, for a rifle shot of an Austrian infantryman. On 1923 the father of Francesco Baracca met Enzo Ferrari, driver of the racing team "Alfa Romeo", after winning a car race. The father of Baracca offered to Enzo Ferrari to show the horse on the car, and the mother wrote to him, praying to get the horse in memory of his son. So the Alfa Romeo cars had the horse painted on, and when Enzo Ferrari left Alfa Romeo to found Ferrari team, he carried the famous symbol on the new Ferrari cars...Until now
Best regards
M
Do you know the story of this? The prancing horse was choosed by Baracca because he was an officer of Cavalry Corp, as almost all the aviators of WWI. He was an ace of that War, having scored 34 enemy aircrafts. On june 1918 he died, for a rifle shot of an Austrian infantryman. On 1923 the father of Francesco Baracca met Enzo Ferrari, driver of the racing team "Alfa Romeo", after winning a car race. The father of Baracca offered to Enzo Ferrari to show the horse on the car, and the mother wrote to him, praying to get the horse in memory of his son. So the Alfa Romeo cars had the horse painted on, and when Enzo Ferrari left Alfa Romeo to found Ferrari team, he carried the famous symbol on the new Ferrari cars...Until now
Best regards
M
billyturnip
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Thanks for telling the story of the prancing horse Marcello. very interesting.
Roger.
Roger.
