Ozzy Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Fantastic attention to detail, don't normally look down these parts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Great job! Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted May 16, 2016 Author Share Posted May 16, 2016 (edited) Thanks BillyD , Ozzy , g. Rifle sling gets fabricated and attached: ...and the lettering and background gets some more treatment: Edited May 16, 2016 by krow113 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Great attention to details, Steve - through the whole build, I should say :clap: Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
593jones Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Looking very good. krow, really like the lettering. Just one thing, the rifle sling should be attached to the sling swivel halfway along the barrel. The swivel at the muzzle was the piling swivel, used for piling arms. You're doing a great job there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 (edited) g thanks. 593j -Thanks but I cant find any pix to prove your suggestion. I can find many pix showing the sling as modelled , as well as the David Parkins Firing Line SMLE instructions. No worries , I doubt if any one was posing like this in the Ypres salient anyway... Sling attached and painted, final testing : Very little left to do , joining the fig and base and then embedding the two Edited May 19, 2016 by krow113 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
593jones Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Excellent work, krow, but I'm very surprised you were unable to find any photographs of rifle slings attached in the way that I suggested, there are lots of them out there: Second picture, 2nd Grenadier Guards, August 1914 http://www.britishbattles.com/firstww/battle-cotterets.htm Second picture, 1st Irish Guards, August 1914 http://www.britishbattles.com/firstww/battle-landrecies.htm?ezpage=7 Scroll down the page to Was Britain Ready for war in 1914 http://www.1914-1918.net/entente.htm Anyway, as you say, an unlikely pose for the Salient, one which would guarantee a short life expectancy! Looking forward to seeing the finished piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted May 31, 2016 Author Share Posted May 31, 2016 (edited) Piece is finished. The model is a tribute to my great grandfather , who by family record fought in the first battle of Ypres in 1914 and died of his wounds in England. There will be some concerns , I will ask that you refrain from the unneeded type of comment as when I call a piece finished there is no going back. Thank you. There are no insignia as I don't have clear info on the look of the sleeve patch at this point. The cap badge has to be a custom p/e item and too small to get that 'lab' set up , it will be added when my p/e needs are 'fattened' up a little. I have plenty of pix of hats without badges ,and sleeves without battle patches. So many men went and fought, came back wounded or died on the field , wasted by 'aristocrats' and politicians who knew little of the death they sent others to with little compunction. Started in 2010 and finished today 2016 , here is 'YPRES 1914' Edited May 31, 2016 by krow113 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Outstanding tribute to your great grandfather! It's been a pleasure following this build, too. Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted May 31, 2016 Author Share Posted May 31, 2016 Thanks g . Went back in spraying gloss clear to wet the area. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Very realistic wet effect Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeoman1942 Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Incredible detail. Love the wriggly tin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted June 13, 2016 Author Share Posted June 13, 2016 Thanks g , and Yeoman. Getting this done is a real relief. The amount of work and study that goes into a WW 1 dio fig subject can be seemingly unsurmountable. Thank s to all who took the time to comment. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 I only found this part of the forum following a link from site help yesterday, so have no idea how many fabulous pieces like this I have missed. But although I'm a month late Steve, I couldn't not leave a comment to say what a wonderful tribute you have produced there - & I hope you don't mind me saying - not just to your great grandfather but all the others of that tragically lost generation. Simply superb modelling & I've thoroughly enjoyed catching up with your thread. Wonderful, poignant work... Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 I have only just found this too. Amazing piece of work, and a great tribute to your Grandfather. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted July 17, 2016 Author Share Posted July 17, 2016 Kieth and bwaters , thanks for your interest and comments. It was a long process , not without its frustrating moments , but came together in the end . Mostly due to an effort to 'finish', a relentless desire to get it done. A near to finish shot: 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James G Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Great dio, very evocative. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 Happy results: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Glad to see your hard work has paied off! Â Â Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 (edited) Thanks Giemme And this weeks result: Thats it for the contests around here. Happy to see my work compete and come out of it well. Edited October 25, 2016 by krow113 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Stunning job krow.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike W Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 (edited) Very atmospheric and well executed tribute to your grandfather. My only niggle would be that the Tommy is too clean - Ypres was a sea of mud. Â Mike Edited March 6, 2017 by Mike W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 Vince and Mike thanks! Â You may be thinking of the second Ypres Mike, but others have commented on the 'cleanliness' of the fig. I 'build for the tables' that is to say I enter everything in the local contests , judges prefer a cleaner fig to make their decisions, this was the prime motivation to keep the mud down. It is also very tough to make the mud look proper, the transitions from dry to wet mud for example is real hard to render. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 (edited) A very interesting dio, and congrats on the award! As mentioned above, the only units involved in 1914 were regular Army (the "Old Contemptibles" as you correctly stated). The Pals battalions were Kitchener's volunteer army and didn't see action until the Somme, in 1916.  Ian Edited April 19, 2017 by limeypilot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 Thanks Ian. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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