scottie3158
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Jason,
Excellent work mate, really nice textures and tones on the skin.
Excellent work mate, really nice textures and tones on the skin.
101st Airborne 1944.
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RichardMo
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that is a great start and very excellent face and love the helmet as well.
Rick
Rick
Steve Brodie
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cool 'knife?' with a built in knuckle duster ?
Jason Crausby
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Thanks once again Chaps!
en.wikipedia.org
Jason.
Thanks Steve... I think its called a Mark 1 or 1918 Trench Knife.... found it on wiki!
Mark I trench knife - Wikipedia
Jason.
Steve Brodie
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Thanks for the info Jason, quite a knife, with spikes on the grip to stop the enemy grabbing it , and the grip handy to inflict a bit more pain, when needed.
Steve Jones
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I'm no expert Jason but I thought the life preserves were a dull/matt color. Hopefully there will be a color photo on the tinternet somewhere
Steve Brodie
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RAF preservers, started out a dull colour, but Many pilots painted their "Mae Wests" with Chrome yellow aircraft paint to improve their chances of rescue from the English Channel , Maybe the 101st had the same idea.
Neil Merryweather
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I remember seeing one in the Imperial War Museum(RIP) when I was lad and that was the first time I realised it was all about hurting people.
I have no idea why war still fascinates me, but I am resigned to it now.
Jason Crausby
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Thanks Steve... I think they were fabric coated so I think I’m going to leave it Matt.
Jason Crausby
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Thanks Steve...the US ones seem to be anything from a light lemon yellow to almost orange... so I’m somewhere in the middle?
Jason Crausby
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I’ve made a little progress but there so much detail on this bust that it’s taking me a while... lots of work done but collectively very little finished...The only thing that about done is the reserve parachute... still some tidying up to do on it but I’ve handled it that much doing the detail that parts need doing again...
Thanks
Jason
Thanks
Jason
Jason Crausby
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Hi all... much more progress than this made but again very few completed bits... however I’m pretty much calling the head and helmet done... the straps project forward because they rest on the shoulders of the figure but it looks a bit strange without the body... the lettering on the first aid pack was challenging but that’s about the best I can do as I didn’t want to revert to decals.... just 50 stars on the US flag shoulder patch to do next!
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Jason Crausby
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...whoops forgot the pics...
Thanks for looking in...
Jason
Thanks for looking in...
Jason
You’re good at this aren’t you 
Excellent facial tones on this one....
Excellent facial tones on this one....
Jason Crausby
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Thanks Paul and Thanks Tim....
I’ve thought long and hard about how best to depict the 50 stars on the shoulder patch as I think not doing it right will let down the rest of the detail....so....
...the stars on the US flag are actually laid out in 6 vertical lines of 5 stars... interspersed with 5 vertical lines of 4 stars making the 50 stars....
So having done the stripes red on white I did the blue area as the base for the stars and then added my 6 vertical lines...
I then painted 4 horizontal blue lines across to create 5 white blocks in each line...
It was then just a case of putting a dot of white in between the original white lines at the point where each of the 4 blues lines crossed them.... that gave me 50 dots of fairly uneven size but after a bit of tidying up with a fine brush, I’ve finally got my 50 dots....
Ok, so they are not actually stars but that about as near as I’m going to get...I’ve seen quite a few online and even on the box art where dots have just been put on randomly but to be honest doing it this way was fairly simple and I’m happy to leave it like that!?
Thanks
Jason
I’ve thought long and hard about how best to depict the 50 stars on the shoulder patch as I think not doing it right will let down the rest of the detail....so....
...the stars on the US flag are actually laid out in 6 vertical lines of 5 stars... interspersed with 5 vertical lines of 4 stars making the 50 stars....
So having done the stripes red on white I did the blue area as the base for the stars and then added my 6 vertical lines...
I then painted 4 horizontal blue lines across to create 5 white blocks in each line...
It was then just a case of putting a dot of white in between the original white lines at the point where each of the 4 blues lines crossed them.... that gave me 50 dots of fairly uneven size but after a bit of tidying up with a fine brush, I’ve finally got my 50 dots....
Ok, so they are not actually stars but that about as near as I’m going to get...I’ve seen quite a few online and even on the box art where dots have just been put on randomly but to be honest doing it this way was fairly simple and I’m happy to leave it like that!?
Thanks
Jason
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scottie3158
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Jason,
That looks great I would not of thought of that. i would have tried and failed to just paint them all free hand.
That looks great I would not of thought of that. i would have tried and failed to just paint them all free hand.
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Brilliant work on the flag badge Jason - that's one steady hand you've got there.
Great work on the flag....it reads really well. Random dots would just look strange...
Gary MacKenzie
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US B3 life preserver USAAF WW2 Life Vest
WW2 yellow B3 life preserver vest. This was used by the USAAF in WW2 by aircrew and was also issued to the American Airborne Divisions for the Normandy invasion.The "Vest, Life Preserver, Type B-3" was first issued in January 1936 to aircrew. It was used by the 82nd and the 101st Airborne on...
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Life preserver, B-4, 1943
Genuine WWII US B-4 Life preserver, the legendary "Mae West", dated 1943, complete with all straps. Mainly used by airborne troops on D-Day and by US pilots.
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