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The Dizzy Dean one is great too!
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He must be a Cardinal one because there are a few of those.
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That diorama was made by master modeler Paul Keefe. If I remember correctly, he sculpted a master for that base, which was cast as a one-off by Dan Golembieski's ODG Studios.
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This piece is by Grand Master Mike Blank. He sculpted the figures and did the groundwork; it's a unique piece.
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"Hostiles" was voted "Best in Show". I cast my vote for a different piece, though, Rick Taylor's bust, "Sara".
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Yeah. I don't know where Bill was this year, but these were brought in and displayed as a retrospective. I'm afraid I don't remember who has them.
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This is Bill Donohue's Wake Island diorama, one of a group of dioramas he exhibited.
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"The Death-Dealer". This piece didn't place as high as expected, I think, because of the brush work on the horse's flanks.
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This pair of airplane dioramas were voted "Best in Show-Aircraft". I don't recall the artist's name, unfortunately, or I'd tell you.
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PS-I think that's me just off to the right in the one pic. Those look like my legs.
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"Rebels Are Coming!" scratchbuilt vignette in 54mm by Riccardo Ruberti, depicting the French Army in Mexico in 1864.
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I expected it to be Best in Show, but love the Hostiles. And Mike has plenty of medals.
I heard he is more popular in NA than Europe and influences many artists to try monochrome.
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You're welcome Brad. Thanks for filling us in on the artists and other related info for each of the pieces.
The show seemed to have good/higher attendance than it's had the past couple of years both in artist participants and us visitors.
Love this show and can't wait for next year's.
Mark
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Let me also thank both Mark and Andreas for taking the time to photograph and post these incredible shots.
It was a busy show with a higher attendance at the Minutemen booth, so I just barely got an opportunity to view these TRUE works of art.
Probably as no surprise to anyone, I loved Bill Donohue's dirama of the Japanese attacking the US Marines on Wake.
I would love to try to reproduce this using the K&C or TG figures ... even if the Marines are not dressed in that style of uniform.
Instead ...maybe show the Battle of the Tenaru or the Battle of Edson's Ridge on Guadalcanal ...^&confuse .. keeping the feeling of Bill's work.
--- LaRRy
