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Thank you both :-) Colin

Thanks frank.....appreciate your comments Colin

Thanks Chris

Done except for base (which is ordered). Colin

Here's a start. Colin

Sculpting mostly done. Colin

Chris - a combination of photos (for his face) and a painting (for the pose). Here is the painting. Colin

I just realised I never posted the final piece.....here it is sans base, which is still to be delivered. Colin

Dude - you would disrespect the bravest of the brave? Here is a portrait of the man that I got on eBay a few years ago. The inspiration. Colin

a New 1/6 project started last weekend. Moving a head at a good pace. 1/6 scale, sculpted in red brown sculpey polymer cay with grey sculpey firm collar embroidery. Colin

Hi Boris. I usually sculpt my own but I liked this commercial bust and decided to paint it as it came out of the box. Really an enjoyable painting excercise. When I posted it on Greeat War Forum, one of the experts there posted the photo of the real 25th NF bombing officer at that time. I think its just a coincidence that they look similar as I do not think that the Russian sculptor had seen the photo. But you are right, the stresss of being in the trenches and of thee upcoming attack can explain the additional 10 years aging. Thankyou for commenting. Colin

Thanks for the kind comments gents Colin

Here he is done (without base, which is on order). Thanks for the comments Frank. Colin

Almost done - minor details to complete and a base to add. The "VP" buttons are in progress and not yet complete. Frank thanks for your input....you can see that I re sculpted his pockets and moved his MC. Colin

Thanks Frank....it's nice to improve rather than regress. Colin

Painting in progress. Still lots to do. Colin

Thanks spasm - yes you are right....there is a real freedom in being able to model and individual, any scale, any period. I prefer to do portraits of actual personages rather than anonymous soldiers. Then I can research their bios. Appreciate the kind words. Colin

Thanks to both of you - very kind comments. I will post Papineau when I am done. Other idas I have for WWI personalities include Arthur Currie, and a group of poets (Owne, Sassoon, Tolkien etc.). There will probably be lots of WWI stuff coming up as we approach the centenary. Cheers Colin

Frank & Peter - here is a shot of a group of my pieces entered into competiton at the OMSS show this morning. Not all of them but at least quite a few. Also I removed Papineau's MC ribbon and widened his pockets. Colin

Its an MC ribbon - should it be centred? There are a couple of single ribbon (MC?) wearers from the RCR here that show a placement similar to mine. http://regimentalrogue.com/rcr_great_war_officers/rcr_offr_gregg_mf.html Thanks Frank

Here he is done. Some minor clean up to finsih and then ttime to paint him. I am still away from home so no chance to photograph the whole collection yet. Colin

I like this one....the message bears remembering even now. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) Aftermath Have you forgotten yet?... For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked a while at the crossing of city ways: And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow Like clouds in the lit heavens of life; and you're a man reprieved to go, Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare. But the past is just the sameand War's a bloody game... Have you forgotten yet?... Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget. Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets? Do you remember the rats; and the stench Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain? Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?' Do you remember that hour of din before the attack And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men? Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back With dying eyes and lolling headsthose ashen-gray Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay? Have you forgotten yet?... Look up, and swear by the slain of the war that you'll never forget! March 1919. The above poem was published in the collection Picture-Show in 1920. It can be found in: Sassoon, Siegfried. Collected Poems. New York: The Viking Press, 1949. Untermeyer, Louis, ed. Modern British Poetry (New and Enlarged Edition). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1969. Colin

I forgot....my bad. Keep nagging and I will comply. Colin

Thanks Frank. As someone on another modelling site said, it's the 70's porn star moustache :-) Colin

Here's the latest 1/6 scale (i.e. GI Joe size) bust in progress. Talbot Papineau of the PPCLI in Oct. 1917. He was KIA at Passchendaele on Oct. 30, 1917, putting an end to an almost certain meteoric political career . Colin