Hi guys
Escape to freedom: the famous photo of Peter Leibing an iconic image of the Cold War era, was that I wanted to use to create this figure
of Conrad Schumann: East German police, jumping a barbed wire fence during construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.I liked the idea that the soldier would be almost in the air and took me some time that the foot stay glued balanced on the wire
I builded the body adapting some 1: 32 multipose plastic spare parts. Then I sculpted with putty the arms, hands, all the uniform details, belts and I did, hand made, the wire fence, the helmet and Kaláshnikov
I used the original black and white picture as background

I painted all with acrylic

I’ll appreciate and welcome all yours comments

Adriano

Very nice pushing the boundries of MM using a well documented reference!!!

My thaks to Carl and MBD for the kinds comments

Adriano

Nice and well thought out!

Adrian

Adriano,
Well done and great idea.
Cheers
John

Ingenious bit of modelling

My thanks to Adrian, John and Ron
I really appreciate yours kinds words

Adriano

Great posing/convesion of your figure, briliant match with the photograph.
Nice piece.
Cheers
Keith

Brings back lots of memories as a kid I saw this picture many times. You really did this picture justice good work.

Great idea and really well executed.

Roger.

Brilliant concept and extremely well done.

Very nice scene and well painted!

Cheers

Nice one! very original!
Cheers
Jim

Really a nice skit! Very evocative. Congratulations to the original idea.
Andrea

Thank you to: Keith , Captfue, Roger, Gellso, Martin, Jim, Andrea
you are all very kinds I appreciate all the comments.
Thank Jason for the accuracy of your comment but not had and find out
what was the model of gun used.
Regards

Adriano

Jason, can you tell that from the photo or did you get the info from somewhere else?
I'm not disputing it or anything like that, just curious.

Roger.

Hi Roger!

It was a PPSH!

You can see it defenitively in this little film...:


Cheers

Thank you Martin, like I said I was just curious and I hope it didn't come across as if I doubted Jason's comment that wasn't the intention.

Roger.