hi folks, I worked in the head, refining the features and also decide to chop the head in order to cast it in resin as my friend René advice me.
thanks for watching!

now you can fantasize about early campaign and Africa Korps both..

..maybe a full length figure with leather jacket..

you found a place to order your rubber?

still looks good!!

Rene

is the most beautiful rommel bust i know!
The face is really similar!
good works!

Il faut vraiment voir ses autres bustes, ils sont lardé d'un sensibilité et un beauté que je n'ai jamais vu déja...

Antonio, monte ta Leo s'il te plait...

( you should see his other busts, so sensible and enriched with a beauty I never saw before... antonia, show us your Leo please..)

René

yess

I would like to do that, as you told me the chances are endless once you saved the head, today I was measuring full leght body pictures of rommrl and in 1/6 scale and the result is a 33 cm figure long, also I drew it and its quite big but I love this idea wearing the leather jacket and scarf, I think Im getting into trouble but fun!
Im ordering rubber and materials this week, thanks mate for the comments!

Merci

Thnaks Nico! I apreciate your words my neighbor! little by little is getting there I like yoy figures also, great blog, keep the good!
Antonio

yes René, a 30cm figure is a lot of resin but I think Im going for that lol! yesterday I measured all full body pics from rommel I have, I think Rommel's height was 1,68 m, and he had a proportion of 7,5 heads/body. so here a sketch I made to visualize.

I'll send you something in a minute that will come in handy antonio.

René

thanks Renè for the proportion drawing, 8 heads is a bit much for rommel's body, he was a quite short guy, so this is what a got so far now, I use normal clay to visualize the pose, a long way is yet to come...
gretting

first sesion and study of volume, with super sculpey, I used 2 packs to fill the figure... its huge!

I so much like your approach towards this hobby Antonio...

especially your way of thinking about volumes and then start refining them.

you will 'cut' this one in half to make it fit in your oven?
Is he 'wired' all over? it can give some trouble, cutting him loose.

( showLeoShowLeo )

all the best wishes,

René

Thanks Renè!
at this stage i dont know if i will cut it, but sounds as a good idea! it is wired inside, some aluminnium foil and Magic sculpt hardened also, its big and heavy but the structure resist very well, i should think about a solution for the hands but later...

here is a link to see my gone (as a bird) Leonardo: http://ipmsmalta.forumotion.net/figures-f7/leonardo-bust-t857.htm

at last

Dear Antonio...


..I..at least I do...

..I love your work!

crazy..

Leo should have seen this.

René

hahha, thanks for your funny words,I apreciate it my friend! I wish Leo was here too lol, I bet he could do marvellous figures!
some work tonight, still need many retouches but little by little getting the right shape...

the shapes are perfect to me.

you will have some work on the binoculars I suppose.
Also curious about some heavy 12 o clock lighting, see this particular shades exagerated.

René

update

Hi René,
shapes are getting better, left leg is a bit off, I should fix that, the binoculars are just there for general view, will be done in plasticard, and about the lighting I like to try diferents iluminations!

I started with wrinkles, more changes will occure I guess!

Wonderful!

It is a geat pleasure for me, to see Your work continiue...!

Regards

thanks Martin, its my pleasure to show here beatiwn such good modellers!
I enlarge the right lower side of the jacket, I also used my dad for the pose lol!
grettings all!

some shots with diferent ilumination, a bit dramatical lol!

This is getting better and better !

BTW: You have to change the thread name, it's not "bust" any more