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Author Topic: Home Guard (WIP's ,from Laffer's Photographs.) First sets. 28/01.  (Read 6251 times)

Offline tin shed gamer

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A while ago I asked if anyone was intrested in having a likeness of themselves or of a family member added to the 20th century Follies range.(since its primarily base on real people rather than generic cannon fodder)
Today I've managed to find some time to post a few sculpts ,of some the photos people sent me.(Not all ;) )

Mark.
« Last Edit: January 28, 2019, 11:32:57 AM by tin shed gamer »

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They are full of character - love 'em.
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Must have these  :o ;D
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These are excellent, I,ve never heard of anyone doing this before , well done .

Offline Ewan

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Excellent, I'm down for a set  :)

Offline FramFramson

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Oh my word, these might be the finest homeguard I've ever seen.


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Offline Madmick

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They will become available on the 1st Corps site when we have a few packs ready. They will be releasd under the category 'Home Front'

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They look ace 8)

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Simply the best ever. 👍

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Loving these 👍👍👍👍

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Love the faces! Would you identify the rogues gallery? lol
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Offline Ewan

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They will become available on the 1st Corps site when we have a few packs ready. They will be releasd under the category 'Home Front'
The fact the figures are getting their own category hopefully means that the 'Home Front' range will have a good number of figures and not just Home Guard.

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Cheers chaps,
 I'm genuinely glad you like them.


Marianas,
I'm not going to list who's who. Simply because thats not what I promised. I know a couple of people have mentioned which figures are of family members. Which is absolutely fine.It's also the point of the exercise.
Ewan.
Initially there's five sets of figures ( not all of the additional sets are finished or indeed will be in time for York on 3rd Feb.
 I'm almost out of people to sculpt .( only two not sculpted.) So I'll probably return to period photographs and pick people / faces from them to continue with as there's still quite a few things I wish to explore that will fall under the new heading or the Follies.
Mark.

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Wonderful characters.

Offline Poiter50

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Interesting. Slightly OTT, a friend who is a professional artist and has won competitions to paint some government ceremonies in historic buildings/places, working on official photos or footage, has found that the real images can be sparse for the number of people present, so he solved this by adding people in that he knows despite them not being at the event. Now, when he has an opening display of his art of these official events, it has become a fun thing to "spot" the interloper.

Cheers chaps,
 I'm genuinely glad you like them.


Marianas,
I'm not going to list who's who. Simply because thats not what I promised. I know a couple of people have mentioned which figures are of family members. Which is absolutely fine.It's also the point of the exercise.
Ewan.
Initially there's five sets of figures ( not all of the additional sets are finished or indeed will be in time for York on 3rd Feb.
 I'm almost out of people to sculpt .( only two not sculpted.) So I'll probably return to period photographs and pick people / faces from them to continue with as there's still quite a few things I wish to explore that will fall under the new heading or the Follies.
Mark.
Cheers,
Poiter50