Panzer I A - 95% DONE!!!!

Noel Petroni wrote:Yep!  I straightened the boot to normal position and it looks better (will post pics in near future). I like gory stuff and wanted to include the injury like a scene in Band Of Brothers!!!  This US solider gets a direct hit in the room he is in and his friends help him out on the pavement.... his leg is a total mess... all twisted and broken and a large shrapnel hole in his boot with smoke still coming out of the hole... tal genn man!

anyway....... this is my first scratch build... it's great fun and I think I'll be doing more..... more gory deaths!

Point of Order:

I think the right leg is a good length but the left leg seems long from torso to knee.... what say you lot?

bcauchi wrote:Really good and realistic now. I still don't like the hand sticking up especially since the head is slumped backwards but then i am no CSI and don;t know the effects of death and rigor mortis. Just would not do it like that myself. Other than that, i prefer the way you placed to foot now, i realised that you had a broken foot in mind but it looks much better now.  Well done, some really great scratch building.

bcauchi wrote:My opinion, is that all options will make a statement. The tank by itself will make the face of death stick out.  A civilian passing by oblivious to the carnage would also look good if the tank is placed in a street setting and the woman maybe holding a child's hand passes by.  The child might be clutching a teddy bear or another toy and maybe he would be looking at the corpse, not his mother.  A soldier would also look good, with an appraising look on his face sort of the guy got what he deserved.

An idea which just occurred to me and sparked by my recent watching of Schindler's list coupled with Ivan's work may be that you paint the tank in just greyscale and only the figure in colour.  The piece could be titled 'death'

My two cents worth.

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iCocker wrote:Coming out great 'ras' ...

I think in some parts the folds need to be soften a bit, remember that is thick wool so folds would be minimal and not so many near each other, I know this is a trap every scratchbuilder gets into, one get carried away easy! Enjoy the new field ...

Regarding this refugee looks very miserable and eastern european, more appropriate for a gettho scene or russia which happened later in the war. Remember in 1939 Polish forces were still defending till they reached Warsaw and the Soviet attacked from the other side, Poland was not in such a sorry state and people flarished, check the recent movie about Pope John Paul to get an idea and also the first scenes of Schindler's list


Ivan

bcauchi wrote:i am no expert on figures but i think that you are doing a great job and the folds on the clothing look really good. I like that figure you chose to be walking past the tank, very expressive.

Noel Petroni wrote:

bcauchi wrote:i am no expert on figures but i think that you are doing a great job and the folds on the clothing look really good. I like that figure you chose to be walking past the tank, very expressive.

Thanks Brian!

The part that is rally bashing my brain is what damage to do to the tank.

a) simple tiny holes (two maybe) on the side indicating Anti Tank rifle shots

OR

b) a shell hit on the lower structure with a couple of wheels blown off

Manafxx man! 

Can you make both? One after the other sort of

Ray wrote:Very nice Noel

Did you try using Duro for hair? I'm sure Ivan & Stephen would attest to this as it "holds" on to detail much better then MS or Milliput