More carnage in the cornfield (1 Viewer)

[Ken & Ericka Osen/H&A Studio]

Thanks so much for your kind comments on the cornfield. I was admiring your work on the other thread and your blending of K&C AWI figures, scenic elements and photo montage. Hopefully you will take a moment to look at the recent AWI figures I sculpted for W. Britain too as I am sure they could be useful in your great displays.

Don't be embarrassed with anything you do, at the end of the day everyone's collection displays show imagination and creativity. You must consider that not only have I been doing this as a profession for over 22 years now, but I was a hobbyist before that and have learned techniques from other talented people in different areas of the hobby.

Our work here is also focused a bit more as we have been museum exhibit researchers and designers from the first day we opened our business. Often the educational needs of that discipline push us to develop new ways to simulate historic details that are not always considered in the collectibles industry. Hopefully it shows in many of the projects that we do for ourselves and our clients.

You may not have noticed this picture on another thread, but here is a newer version of a cornfield with the tassels also modeled on the corn. This Virginia snake rail fence and field simulates the South edge of Miller's Cornfield at Antietam, or the view the Confederates would have had as the Federal 1st Corps troops emerged. The counter attacking men of the 1st Texas Infantry lost 82% of their men counter attacking into this plot of land...
Sometime in the future I will set this up with Infantry to better simulate the action, this image was to illustrate a custom conversion I did for another collector a short time ago.

Ken

 

[Ken & Ericka Osen/H&A Studio]

The South edge of the field as it appears today...
Note the Virginia snake rail fence and the exposed rock at the surface of the ground. It should be also noted that this is modern Hybrid corn planted for mechanical harvesting and not as a nineteenth century field would appear.

 

[swalterh]

The South edge of the field as it appears today...
Note the Virginia snake rail fence and the exposed rock at the surface of the ground. It should be also noted that this is modern Hybrid corn planted for mechanical harvesting and not as a nineteenth century field would appear.

A diorama of the Texas Brigade counter-charging the Mid-westerners in Miller’s Cornfield would certainly make for an interesting and ambitious project. It would probably be well worth the effort though.




I think this statement expressed by Bruce Catton pretty much sums up this epic struggle.
“Attack and counter-attack taking place in every conceivable direction and in no recognizable time sequence, Northerners and Southerners wrestling back and forth in the cornfield in one tremendous free-for-all.”

 

[mestell]

Good morning Ken & Erica. I just received 5 sets of WB #51030 "18th/19th Century Corn #2" to augment my existing cornfield on my 4'x8' table. I must say that the new corn sets are fantastic looking and the separate bases for each clump of corn makes it so much easier for placement of figures coming throught the rows. I am using these new sets in the forground with the older sets in the back. Great stuff! Thanks . . .
:smile2: Mike