In The News...

Here is my latest commission work which I have entitled "In The News". It's based off of a famous picture of an 82nd Airborne trooper reading the newspaper on a window sill of a damaged building shortly after the "D Day" drops into France. He is a 70MM offering from Historic Art Miniatures and is all around a fantastic kit. I've added the damaged curtain section as well as the damaged pane of glass the window molding and the sign. He is painted as always in Vallejo Acrylics and was really an enjoyable project for me.

Run...

This is my latest commission work. It is the 120mm scale SS MG42 Gunner by Jeff Shiu's Miniatures. The figure has a really nice action pose which you don't see too much of in large scale figures but I think it looks very good and anatomically it is believable. As always it is painted in Vallejo Acrylics.

 

PMC Miniatures 101st Airborne bust 1/16th scale...

Here is my latest commission/box art work for a new figure company called PMC Miniatures. The sculpt and casting is great and it really paints itself. It is finished as always in Vallejo acrylics and Citadel paints for the metallics. The figure depicts a Sergeant of the 1st Bn., 502nd P.I.R. 101st Airborne in Bastogne, 1944.

Latest Diorama - "Ambush on the Spree"...

Here is my latest dio about 99% done. I posted some in progs about 3 weeks ago so here is the finished product. It's a group of Soviet motor rifles riding a IS-2m when they are ambushed from behind a broken down VW. Some of the troops are surprised along with the tank crew and some are not sure what is going on hence not able to react. Figs are a mish mosh from Tamiya, Verlinden, Dragon, Mig, Dougs original, Tank, Hornet, Wolf, Warriors and Evolution (WHEW!!!) Almost all have hornet heads and some other mods of some kind. The IS-2m is the Tamiya kit with a bunch of aftermarket, the VW is pretty straight outta the box, CMK kit if I remember and the bank is a modified Dioramas Plus offering. I'm not really happy with the pics but I'm really not to keen on messing with them any more (hate f'ing photography). All painting and finishing is done with Vallejo Acrylics and MIG pigments.

Honorable Mention: 2011 MMSI Chicago Show Winner

"Planning the Counter Attack" - Historical Open Gold

"U Boat Captain" - Historical Painters Silver

200MM 82nd Airborne from Maurice Corry...

Here is my latest commission piece just in time for the MMSI show in Schamburg Illinois. It is the 200MM sculpt by Maurice Corry. I had some mixed feelings about this figure in that it is a very fine sculpt actually almost too good in some respects that made it a very laborious piece to paint. The folds and the wrinkles in the jacket are amazing, hence the laborious painting time that it took to bring out these details but I'm not complaining. I do feel though that there is a lot of missing details and equipment here. The reason I say this is because he is supposed to be modeled after a paratrooper of the 82nd airborne during the Normandy drops yet there was no flag on his right arm, no entrenching tool, no musette bag or any other equipment of any kind, just a canteen. Also there is no camo netting on his helmet nor is there a first aid pouch. Like I said, great sculpt but to me he is missing some very basic equipment that I think should have been there so for the next one I do I'll see if I can get my hands on some 200MM US infantry equipment. As usual he is painted in Vallejo acrylics.

U-Boat Captain bust...

Here is my latest commission work. It is the 1/10th scale resin/white metal bust by F.M. Beneito. He is painted as usual in Vallejo acrylics and Citadel for the metallics.