Captain Siborne  | 01 Oct 2023 6:56 a.m. PST |
I've worked on the Mont St Jean model this weekend. It's still not finished – the road needs to be laid, and the courtyard base is too pale and syrupy. The stands of the figures need to be better concealed, but you get the general idea. Despite these forthcoming improvements, I'm already pleased with the results. It's really the coming together of the work of two people who have never met (Liam and my father) but the results look ok and will be even better in due course. You can see more on my blog at generalpicton.blogspot.com
More to follow! |
| cavcrazy | 01 Oct 2023 7:20 a.m. PST |
I love seeing work in progress. It gives one insight into building great looking dioramas. I look very forward to the finished product. |
| 14Bore | 01 Oct 2023 7:23 a.m. PST |
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| Gonsalvo | 01 Oct 2023 8:36 a.m. PST |
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| Red Jacket | 01 Oct 2023 8:58 a.m. PST |
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| ConnaughtRanger | 01 Oct 2023 10:35 a.m. PST |
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 deadhead | 01 Oct 2023 11:04 a.m. PST |
I think he has done a great job of posing and basing the figures, all in one weekend. I am now convinced that MSJ needs roughly twice as many wounded, as we see here. I wanted to see it absolutely swamped, to look right. OK back to work…….frankly this is not chaotic enough yet. I never did work in a Glasgow casualty dept on a Saturday night, (that would be a Detroit ER over the Pond) but central London in 1977 could be busy. Funny thing though, in six months as the Senior House Surgeon I saw not one single GSW. Many a stabbing, even with the knife still in place….but not one GSW |
| Captain Siborne | 01 Oct 2023 12:46 p.m. PST |
Now with the courtyard properly blended in:
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| Shagnasty | 02 Oct 2023 9:50 a.m. PST |
Terrific, especially the last version. It is reminiscent of the scene in "Gone With the Wind" at the train yard. |
| Frederick | 02 Oct 2023 2:07 p.m. PST |
Amazing work, great detail – including the amputated limbs! And as someone who did work in a Detroit ER in the 1980's, I agree not quite as chaotic – at least no one has tried to drive a car thru the ambulance bay |
| Captain Siborne | 02 Oct 2023 2:33 p.m. PST |
Many thanks all. I'm still not completely happy with the tone of the courtyard – needs some further attention, and the green grass on the north side is too bright. |
| deadhead | 03 Oct 2023 12:27 a.m. PST |
Straw and more corpses. Working on that now. Not enough figures yet, for which apols, I underestimated the "footprint". Sent a PM to Frederick. I was lucky to be in a quieter corner of Michigan, UofM, Ann Arbor, for six months 1983. I sent a WhatsApp to all in the tean showing the Damascus Turkish hospital in Lawrence of Arabia, and the railyard in GwtW, my ideal look! |
 Old Contemptible | 03 Oct 2023 11:04 p.m. PST |
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| deadhead | 05 Oct 2023 4:30 a.m. PST |
Thanks. It is the model and basing that really makes them. Here are a few more, the result of head swaps, hemibody transplants and much Greenstuff. The nun started out as an Ancient Egyptian archer (well, her head did anyway), the piglet you will surely recognise (even if not Inniskillings) and increasingly gory bits (as instructed!)
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
