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More red Indians.

Buffalo hunt with Crow Warrior fully scratchbuilt. The scene represents an excited warrior dipping his hand into the blood oozing out from the dead animal to signify his first kill.
Buffalo is homemade meta casting of a bison and reanimated to represent a dead animal. The fingers are broken off and a small repair is in progress.





Sioux Indians. Canadian resin casting. The headdress on the warrior has been modified to create a fringe. Note the papoose on the back of the squaw.

 

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Some Africans.

Abyssinian warriors

Young warrior and mature warrior. Scratchbuilt figures with a toy cheetah.





Maqoma, leader of the Xhosa tribe. Preiser figure modified to sit on Britains horse.

 

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Napoleon, modified from a Historex kit. I built up his torso and upper thighs.

 

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I had also built some dioramas then.

This one is called Isandlhwana 1879. The British 24th foot resin figures were from a Canadian company sculpted by Rendall Patton, a rather prolific sculptor then. The Zulus were made up from Preiser figures.





The next one is Waterloo, representing Marshal Ney desperately trying to stave off disaster. The scene was based on an old Osprey book on Napoleon's Marshals.





This artillery diorama represents a 24pdr Bavarian siege gun kit made by U Puchala. A magnificent and heavy metal casting.

 

[Ivanhoe]

I took several pics of this favourite figure of mine. It was once featured in Mil Mod mag many years ago. It is an extensive conversion made from a Scalelink head, Tamiya, Airfix parts and lots of milliput.

Great animation and painting !

Thanks for posting all of this great work.

 

[nmrocks]

I had also built some dioramas then.

This one is called Isandlhwana 1879. The British 24th foot resin figures were from a Canadian company sculpted by Rendall Patton, a rather prolific sculptor then. The Zulus were made up from Preiser figures.

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The next one is Waterloo, representing Marshal Ney desperately trying to stave off disaster. The scene was based on an old Osprey book on Napoleon's Marshals.

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This artillery diorama represents a 24pdr Bavarian siege gun kit made by U Puchala. A magnificent and heavy metal casting.

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Wow! love the way you stage and present these dioramas
Ray

 

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Hello Ray and Ivanhoe,

Thanks for your nice comments. I was cutting my teeth on converting and scratchbuilding with many of these early pieces. Here is another very early piece, General Custer, converted from an old Imrie-Risley figure.

I have other pieces but as they are due for repairs and refurbishment, I will post these in other threads as and when they get done.

Rgds Victor

 

[Ivanhoe]

Thank you for posting !

Great piece.

Back-in-the-day "Imrie-Risley" made many great figures.

 

[thebritfarmer]

Maqoma has to be my favourite !

 

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Hello Britfarmer and Ivanhoe,

thanks for your nice comments. Here's another Imrie-Risley piece - The Duc de Lauzun. Minor modifications were made to this piece.

 

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A few recent additions to my collection featured white costumes, giving me a chance to practise my shadings on white colours. All are reasonably priced Café Storme or Mokarex hard plastic figures, with minor conversions if any. I think that white is a bland colour and one has to aggressively shade it to make it interesting. I may go back to some of my earlier figures to rework the white colours.

 

[Ivanhoe]

A few recent additions to my collection featured white costumes, giving me a chance to practise my shadings on white colours. All are reasonably priced Café Storme or Mokarex hard plastic figures, with minor conversions if any. I think that white is a bland colour and one has to aggressively shade it to make it interesting. I may go back to some of my earlier figures to rework the white colours.

Classic collections of very well done figures.

 

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Hello Ivanhoe,

Thanks for your very nice comments.

John O'Brien and his wife came to my place last week - Yes THE Obee Wan Kenobi of Toy Soldiers. He was visiting Singapore for a week. We had a terrific time and it's such a pity that his visit was such a short one.

Rgds Victor

May the Farce be with you lot.

 

[Obee]

Hello Ivanhoe,

Thanks for your very nice comments.

John O'Brien and his wife came to my place last week - Yes THE Obee Wan Kenobi of Toy Soldiers. He was visiting Singapore for a week. We had a terrific time and it's such a pity that his visit was such a short one.

Rgds Victor

May the Farce be with you lot.

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Victor,

many thanks for your hospitality in Singapore and for showing us your wonderul collection and workroom. We are currently in trasit lounge awaiting our 'flying kangaroo' to wisk us away to 'the wide brown land'

See you next time,

John

 

[nmrocks]

A couple of fine gentlemen of the hobby, I like the display, don't think you have ever shared the shadow box collection there, I'd like to see some up close.
Ray

 

[Ivanhoe]

Hello Ivanhoe,

Thanks for your very nice comments.

John O'Brien and his wife came to my place last week - Yes THE Obee Wan Kenobi of Toy Soldiers. He was visiting Singapore for a week. We had a terrific time and it's such a pity that his visit was such a short one.

Rgds Victor

May the Farce be with you lot.

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What a great photo !

People you have the pleasure to meet in this hobby only enlarge the experience.

Thank you for sharing this.

 

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Hello Matt and Ray,

Thanks for looking!

I did share a couple of dioramas previously on treefrog:

http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/forum/showthread.php?52132-Palm-Sunday
http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/forum/showthread.php?47789-Custer-in-a-30-mm-flats-diorama

All the shadowboxes are described in detail in my lengthy blog:
http://zinnfiguren-victorwong.blogspot.sg/

But it is a long blog. Specific to the shadowboxes as can be seen in the photo, I'll repost these here with new insights.

Rgds Victor

 

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Some Shadowboxes with lights

The African Safari

This was completed in Dec 2012. As I was starting to amass a lot of zinnfiguren, I was admiring a huge selection of African animal sets available from Berliner Zinnfiguren (BZ) and they cost quite a bit! It then occurred to me that I could create the same with scanned images taken from the internet.

So various images were selected and printed out stuck to cardboard. These were carefully trimmed and the cut edges were covered with black paint.

I knocked up a background made from thick cardboard covered with gypsum and painted a simple savannah scene with Mt Kilimanjaro. I had to cut back on the background to fit it inside the frame. I used dried foliage and twigs in the foreground. The bright fluorescent light creates a very sunny effect.

 

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Moby Dick competed in Feb 2013.

Call me Ishmael, maybe.... This next piece was quite inspired. I had just finished watching the iconic movie starring Gregory Peck and decided to do a diorama on Whaling as I have not done a seascape before. As I am not aware of any zinnfiguren sets on this theme, I started surfing the web for suitable pics to be used as pictorial elements.

As a seascape is generally featureless, the main actors, the whale, the longboats and whaling ship would have to dominate the scene.

To create a sense of movement, I decided that the waves would have to be modelled in 3-dimension. Wave cutouts were created from card and glued onto the base. Thick plaster paste was used to create waves and to simulate a sense of motion. The waves were painted with a deep blue green colour with white. I used a very free and loose style of painting, including impasto techniques.

More waves were added. The forefront waves are painted with a little more green. I added a thin steel wire to the main character's harpoon. Notice that the angle of this harpoon is different from that of the raised whale's head. There is a smaller boat being tipped over by the Whale's tail.

 

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Moby Dick...cont.

The warm LED lights created a surprising end result. Some of you would have noticed that the longboat figures were taken from the old Classics Illustrated Comic cover of Moby Dick.