Young Miniatures - June New Release

[Ebroin]

Hi Michael,
I am glad you saying like my works =)
I'll do my best.

I guess the division makes this bust more special. =)

 

[Guy]

I don't usually make comments on new releases I post but this may be the 2nd German to paint in 37 years of the hobby. Excellent sculpting Ebroin. A real winner!!!

 

[Lee Sang Eon]

Thanks to above members for your kind and generous comments

Especially thanks to Ebroin & Young B Song for giving me a chance to paint such a gorgeos bust.

It was not easy to complete the big bust like this. but I thought that It deserves to be challenged and my satisfaction with the finished one is beyond compare.

Thank you again for your warm compliment about my works everytime. It's always a big pleasure to me

I'll keep trying to make better painting

 

[Michael Tse]

Thanks to above members for your kind and generous comments

Especially thanks to Ebroin & Young B Song for giving me a chance to paint such a gorgeos bust.

It was not easy to complete the big bust like this. but I thought that It deserves to be challenged and my satisfaction with the finished one is beyond compare.

Thank you again for your warm compliment about my works everytime. It's always a big pleasure to me

I'll keep trying to make better painting

Lee,

I have to say I am a little angry. You keep coming up with these impossible acts to follow. It's like sitting Nicole Kidman next to a fella with the poor guy knowing that he almost certainly can't do anything about it.

In another word, you are a true master.

 

[Ebroin]

I don't usually make comments on new releases I post but this may be the 2nd German to paint in 37 years of the hobby. Excellent sculpting Ebroin. A real winner!!!

thank you, Guy, and I am very happy that my work gonna be your 2nd German. =)

You painted very long time, even before I was born.
I truely respect your experiences.

 

[nautilas]

Fantastic figure, and also like the idea of a full figure but unable to sculpt, so if anyone can put legs on i would be very interested, all the best roy.

 

[Carlo Giovanni]

Lee,
Could you explain to us the technic to paint this parka? It's a fantastic paintwork.

 

[tonydawe]

Since no one else has said it, I will "Another bloody German".

I have no problem with the sculpting or the painting. Both are first class, as we've come to expect from Young and Lee.

I just don't understand this ongoing obsession with Nazi's and WW2 Germans among military figure modellers and manufacturers.

Can someone please explain it to me??

I appreciate that during tough economic times manufacturers don't like taking commercial risks and for some inexplicable reason German subjects sell. (It seems to be the same with AFV's and aircraft too.)

It seems safer to produce Germans than subjects from Italy, Japan, Poland, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Canada, France, China, New Zealand, Romania, Hungary, Belgium, South Africa, Turkey and Australia; just to name a few.

To illustrate my point, I looked through Young Miniatures website and noted that Germans outnumber other nationalities at least 3 to 1 in WW2 busts, and that only three nationalities are represented at all - Germany, USSR and USA. C'mon guys, it was a WORLD war. Young Miniatures aren't the only company guilty of this.

Young produces no busts of British/ Commonwealth, Japanese or Italian subjects from WW2 - what's up with that?? Being a Korean company I would expect you guys to be more familiar with the Pacific than Europe, but you only produce one bust (USMC Iwo Jima) from the Pacific theatre.

There's one Russian, four Yanks and the remaining WW2 subjects (13) are all Germans.

I'm sorry for going on a tirade, but I'm sick and tired of bloody WW2 Germans and I want figure/ bust manufacturers to know that I don't and won't buy WW2 German figures.

I don't hate Germans ("I hate Illinois Nazis"), it's just that I'm bored with seeing the same thing over and over and over again, and I don't understand why they are so grossly over-represented while other nations and indeed entire theatres of war are so grossly under-represented or completely ignored by leading manufacturers.

Perhaps this tirade should go on a separate thread, but I'd welcome any thoughts on the subject.

 

[khorgor]

Tony,

First a big thanks for not going down the well trodden road of the nazi rant.

It is in my thoughts that the germans sell well is because sculptors always aquire the best period photos of the germans (of which there are millions easily bought over the net) and sculpt from there.
german military photos are brilliant and clear - a dream for sculptors.

Why is this important? We get brilliantly sculpted busts and kits showing the full force of the german soldier with clear details of webbing, weapons, awards and such.

For most other countires, IMO its hard to get good photos for sculpting purposes. Thus when some nationalities are finally sculpted, we get a bored face, a static pose and little detail. Thus, a model/bust that just doesn't stand out.

I really wish for other country kits (japan!) but until the sculptors give us something great that will stand next to a german sculpt, no one will buy it and stay with something, that even when painted bad will look like a master piece.

P.S. If anyone has seen a german heer in east front winter gear, please let me know