Completed WW1 German Pilot 1/72

[Boris Knokhov]

Sculpted figure of Imperial German Pour le Mérite Ace Rudolf Berthold (Kaiserlisher Kampf-Flieger Oberleutnant Rudolf Berthold)
Make a face with a portrait likeness of this scale is difficult for me. I tried. Came to my mind at seventy-thirty.

And so
1/72 (growth from heels to crown 23,3 mm).
Material oven-hardening polymer clay SuperSculpey Firm and Premo (50/50)
Moustache and cigarette should be added during painting.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 

[Figurenfreund66]

Hi Boris

is never 1:72, unbelievable!
Please enter the again in 1:32 for my planes.

Cheers

Hendryk

 

[Hans]

Absolutely perfect and for 1/72 its completely stunning!

The likelyness is very high in my view:
http://en.valka.cz/attachments/11345/BERTHOLD.jpg


For the title:

If you call Bertold an Kaiserlichen Flieger, the exact writing should be

Kaiserlicher Flieger....
or
better
Kaiserlicher Kampf-Flieger..

if you would name the Imperial Airforce, it should be

Kaiserliche Fliegertruppe

H.

 

[housecarl]

Superb in any scale.
Carl.

 

[Boris Knokhov]

If you call Bertold an Kaiserlichen Flieger, the exact writing should be

Kaiserlicher Flieger....
or
better
Kaiserlicher Kampf-Flieger..

if you would name the Imperial Airforce, it should be

Kaiserliche Fliegertruppe

H.

Thank you very much.
I corrected my error.

Please enter the again in 1:32 for my planes

Thank you. Large figures for me is much more difficult than smaller ones.

 

[Azgaron]

Excellent work in that scale!

Cheers,

Håkan

 

[Mike S.]

OUTSTANDING sculpt! One could easily be forgiven for mistaking it for a far larger scale.

 

[Manfred]

You are an excellent sculptor. This would be outstanding in 1/48 but in 1/72 its almost unbelieveable. You even got a likeness and his pose for the photo camera right.

 

[ArturM]

Amazing figure, my friend! Congrats.

Best regards
Artur

 

[Edward]

Incredible. You would need some sort of magnification to paint this properly..

 

[roadking]

Really amazing sculpt, is it a one off piece or do you sculpt these for commercial release?

Jim

 

[Jeff]

That is jaw droopingly Stunning! I would have never guessed it was 1/72 scale if you had not told us. Specular work.

Best
Jeff

 

[Barke02]

Mind blowing!

Jon.

 

[garyjd]

Fantastic sculpting. The only other time I've seen pilots of such quality were the WW1 pilots Tom Sollers sculpted in 1/48 years ago. ~Gary

 

[Hans]

Boris, did you made this fantastic sculping for a personal project or will it be available? As a WWI model aircraft builder, I would be interested....

H

 

[bonehead]

Crazy good!

I wish my 1/48th figures had this much fidelity to proportion. That is very difficult to achieve in 1/48th. In 1/72nd scale, that is unbelievable. Awesome!

 

[Boris Knokhov]

Thank you for your comments!

it a one off piece or do you sculpt these for commercial release?

sculping for a personal project or will it be available?

Sorry, the figure is not available. It made for a private collector.

 

[Black Army]

Excellent work as allways! I hope we can see more commercial figures from your workbench soon.

Cheers,
Balázs