A whole scratch built Napoleonic army!!! (1 Viewer)

[fishead19690]

Here is one Tom B should get a kick out of! This guy in Russia scratch builds whole armies in clay, check it out, its pretty cool!^&cool
http://ottenki-serogo.livejournal.com/208662.html
http://cs.iupui.edu/~ateal/photos/Russia2004/Wargame/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lagH5xOKgDo#!

 

[theBaron]

Outstanding work! Thanks for sharing the links. His work reminds me of the style used by German makers like Heyde and Haffner, for their larger figures. They look a little smaller than 54mm. I work with a guy who's first-generation Ukranian and can read Cyrillic, I'll have to ask him if he can read the captions and tell me more details.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Hazebrouck]

The sculpting of those figures in the first link are quite beautiful. Hope Brad's workmate can translate this as I would be interested in reading more.

Does the plasticine used in these types of figure harden?

If you look closely you can see the fingerprints in the plasticine. It adds something to the figures in a funny way.

Scott

 

[Wolfgang_UK]

Amazing work - should be interesting in finding out more on ow it was done.
Compare the clay figures featured on Utube with the later ones. I guess he
switched from oil based clay to some kind of "Russian Fimo". Horses and figures
become much more detailed. Surely interesting how he did it.
Anyway a thread like this one keeps me hooked to the hobby and
encourages ones own little efforts.
Thank you very much for putting it up
kind regards
Wolfgang

 

[TomB]

Here is one Tom B should get a kick out of! This guy in Russia scratch builds whole armies in clay, check it out, its pretty cool!^&cool
http://ottenki-serogo.livejournal.com/208662.html
http://cs.iupui.edu/~ateal/photos/Russia2004/Wargame/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lagH5xOKgDo#!

Thanks Fish...have not visited this forum for awhile.....these Russian guys do some awsume stuff...thanks for the post...regards TomB

 

[blaster]

Amazing and dedicated work. The winters must be very long...

Victor