Really an impressive work! The truck is especially clean and the figs are great. But please... Don't tell me it is braille scale! A+ Gilles(Lostiznaos)
thanks to all for your comments and also for the critism
Rob wrote:
Afraid the webbing gear/gas equipment etc on a lot of these doesn't look much like the real thing
It would be helpfull for me to know what I've done wrong.
I took pictures for reference to buildt up my little mens,but I must say,that the webbing of the W^D figures is excellent.
It was not easy for me,to create the uniform (greatcoat) etc. so I apologize for some mistakes.
Regards
Michel
I can send photos to help if that is of use - the greatcoats etc are fine but it is the equipment. The gas equipment on the chest, which I presume is supposed to be the late 1916 onwards Small Box Respirator, should be flat fronted as viewed and not with what appears to be a flap and a single strap. If not worn on the chest it would be worn on the left, roughly halfway between the left hip and left buttock, all men would be wearing them. Some appear to have the smaller PH Hood which is correct and near the front line would be worn on the left hip as shown in conjunction with the SBR on the chest. This is how the SBR is worn (these men are all Tank crew)
The water bottle should be on the right hip not on the rear
The large pack on the rear would have the greatcoat in it and so should be filled out like a box shape, not drooping towards the bottom. You wouldn't have anything rolled up on the top of it as shown
Sorry, but I just don't go along with this notion that 'x item would be worn in y fashion and in no other way'. Surely equipment would be altered, worn, weathered, etc to suit the individual. Or are we really saying that a water bottle was never worn at the rear when carrying out an activity where it would get in the way? For those of us modelling we need to appreciate that wartime conditions meant that not everything went according to written regulations, any reference to photographs will prove that is the case.
I think these figures look great and I congratulate their maker on the skill he has demonstrated in producing them.
Sorry, but I just don't go along with this notion that 'x item would be worn in y fashion and in no other way'. Surely equipment would be altered, worn, weathered, etc to suit the individual. Or are we really saying that a water bottle was never worn at the rear when carrying out an activity where it would get in the way? For those of us modelling we need to appreciate that wartime conditions meant that not everything went according to written regulations, any reference to photographs will prove that is the case.
I think these figures look great and I congratulate their maker on the skill he has demonstrated in producing them.
Mike
The water bottle in the equipment being worn by these figures simply can't be worn on the rear owing to the configuration of it. The webbing had its purpose with items in certain places for a reason. The small box respirator was worn the way I mentioned for a reason, the string was to pull the neck strap down and the flap facing the wearer to stop mud, dirt etc getting inside the haversack and affecting the gas equipment. I'm yet to see a photo of the SBR being worn the 'wrong way round' in a period photo
-- Edited by Rob on Saturday 1st of June 2013 09:24:58 PM
Surely the primary evidence is worth considering first. Contemporary photographs show the 9.2inch howitzer in action, and the RGA personnel.
You might say that the photographers did not take photographs in extreme weather, so photographs may not show all circumstances and conditions. They do tend to show a considerable degree of "informality", but to take that further and assume that any irregularity to be possible, or to be the norm would be fanciful.
I suppose it depends on your intentions.
(Photographs can be misleading. I like one taken on active service, featuring a character partially, or even improperly dressed who had been present near the Western Front since 1914. He would appear to have inspired at least one manufacturer to emulate his appearance, but I would hesitate to regard him as typical; he is the regimental mascot, and he is a baboon!)
I agree with Bern, outstanding work, don't really care where the equipment is.
In my professional life I work in nature conservation, travelling around and watching wildlife I see and am told about animals behaving as the 'experts' tell us they don't, I see plants growing where they should not, I see behaviour which is new or different. I tend to think people are the same.
They look great, Michel! If anything, I'd say that you might check how overcoats, trench coats and leather jerkins were buttoned. They had fewer buttons and double breasted garments (like the officer's trench coat) have a different shaped closure. Anyway, this is a minor quibble and it doesn't detract at all of the sculpting and painting work you've done in these figures. My favourite still is that of the bicycle!
Here are a few examples:
-- Edited by d_fernetti on Monday 9th of September 2013 12:54:14 PM
first of all thanks for your comments.I made two figures more to get a balance to the british group.Here they are, but they get some little dirt more, when placed.
Now I will concentrade on my lorry to finish the paint work as soon as possible and then to begin one of the funniest work - to build the diorama.
