Here's my figure before I sent him to New Zealand. He's a Tommy's War artillery figure. I altered his limbs so that he was seated and played with poses until I came up the idea of shaving. Mike has all these bits to paint, so he'll be busy for a while with his meticulous mastery.
Mike's painting him up as a Kiwi, which is why he has a brown shirt. I sculpted a Lemon Squeezer hat to also help identify his nationality. I made it from Magicsculpt and then hollowed out the inside very carefully with a Dremmel burr.
The Billy can was made of lead foil with aluminium foil rims and copper wire handle. The cut throat and shaving brush were carved in styrene. I made the holdall from ali foil. The spoon and fork are Historex spares and I carved the other bits in styrene.
I made him some webbing from lead foil with copper wire buckles. I used a Tommy's War water bottle and satchel but carved the bayonet scabbard and entrenching tool handle.
Here's his jacket, which I sculpted from Magicsculpt.
We are actually moving back into our house tomorrow - 5 months since the flood and almost 4 months since we had to move out. We still have a lot to do. Our belongings come from storage, but we'll have to unpack 70 boxes of things plus furniture we haven't needed for 4 months! (I need to get rid of some of it!) We still have a leaking shower, leaking roof and lots of repairs to sort, but we move into a completely redecorated house! It's been an awful journey, with the original builders chucked off the job because of incompetence. We're exhausted but well. I don't know how people without faith could cope with what we've been through. I guess what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger!
Andy