G'day everyone,
I hoped you would like to see my latest sculpt of an Australian Stretcher Bearer from The Western Front 1917.
It is 1/3 scale with a foam core covered in Magic Sculpt with a few details done in a mixture of Green Stuff and Magic Sculpt.
I have tried to capture the look of shear exhaustion and despair.
All comments would be appreciated.

Cheers Alan.

Alan, a great subject choice, which you have carried off well. The face looks suitably exhausted. The fine detail is very good and I like the cloth cover to the helmet, how did you do it?

One point, should there be a flap on the front of the bag on his chest? How would he get into it?

G'day Alan,

Mate,your bust is very impressive. The facial details are excellent, conveying a real sense of exhaustion. The texture on the helmet is also very effective.

Judging from the colour patch, he appears to be from the 1st Div??

Cheers

G'Day Robert
The Gas bag depicted is a long box respirator ,which judging from the various photos i checked when researching the subject showed them with the flap facing the chest ,whether this was worn backwards or if this was the type of bag i have not been able to establish maybe someone can enlighten us.As for the cloth is a heshin lookalike cotton which i found at a spotlight (cloth,towels,drapery )store , and is glued and stretches over the helmet and folded under the rim , once dried and set i then added a small amount of magisculpt under the rim and pressed the material pattern into the wet putty,otherwise the material made it too bulky and didn't look right.
Thanks for you comments
Cheers
Alan

Hi Tony.
Mate the colour patch represented will be of 11 field ambulance AAMC.
Cheers
Al

Alan - Excellent sculpting! As to the gas mask bag, in Stephen Chambers' book on Uniforms of the British Army, the photos show it being worn with the gas mask bag flap toward the chest about as often as the flap out.

All the best,
Dan

Alan,
Absolutely a great bust. Lot of character and exhaustion.
Very well excecuted.

Marc

Looks very good, mate !

Extremely well sculpted, my compliments
Thanks for sharing.

Cheers
Roc

Must have missed this one. Nice job !!

Stephen Mallia

Excellent work Alan.

Thankyou all for your kind comments,and Dan thanks for clearing the question of the respirator bag.
Cheers
Alan

G'day Alan.

Very nice sculpt mate - even more exciting to see an Australian subject.

Is this a personal/commission project or would you be looking to market commercially?

I'm based in Sydney and a huge fan of Australian military figures. A WW1 Aussie bust would be a must for my grey army, so would be looking to purchase a bust of this kind.

Cheers
Brenton